High Five Pupil Awards - Highlighting Excellence at the School

2010/2011

Throughout the year all sports pupils work extremely hard training and competing in their sport. One or two individuals within the Glasgow School of Sport will however ‘stand out’ a little more than others due to an outstanding result or performance or by the tremendous improvements that they have shown in the course of the year. Glasgow School of Sport is proud of the achievements of all its pupils and each year the coaching team is charged with nominating two pupils within their sport to be put forward for two high profile Glasgow School of Sport Awards: Outstanding Achievement and Most Improved Performer. Voting takes place in the month of June each year and a range of the School of Sport partners are invited to vote. Coaches are not able to vote for their own nominee.

This year a new award has been introduced Coaching and Leadership Excellence Award sponsored by United Sports USA.

Voting has taken place for all 3 of these awards.

Nominees

Outstanding Achievement Award Nominees

Nominees for the Outstanding Achievement Award were badminton player Kirsty Gilmour, Gymnast Carly Smith, Athlete James Higgins, Hockey player Gordon Amour and Swimmer Mark Deans.

Outstanding Achievement Award Winner

The 2010/11 winner is currently ranked 196 th in the world, has six senior international caps and represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi - badminton player Kirsty Gilmour.

Kirsty Gilmour who adds this trophy to her collection which includes Outstanding Achievement Award Winner (2009/10), Commonwealth Games Athlete of the Month (October 2009), Glasgow Young Sports Personality 2009 and Best up and Coming Scottish Sportsperson at the Scottish Variety Awards.

Kirsty Gilmour	Joseph Amouzou

Most Improved Performer Award Nominees

This year's nominees for Most Improved Performer were athlete Joseph Amouzou, swimmer Victoria Milburn, gymnast Jamie Aird, badminton player Calum Stevenson and hockey player Jock Breckenridge.

Most Improved Performer Award Winner

The 2010/11 winner of this award is a triple jump expert winning gold at the U16 Scottish National Open, silver at the Scottish Indoor under 17 championships and at the Glasgow Schools. He is currently ranked 5th in Scotland for the triple jump and 19 th for the long jump – athlete Joseph Amouzou.

Congratulations to all the nominees in both categories and to our winners Kirsty and Joseph.

Coaching and Leadership Excellence Award sponsored by United Sports USA

A new School of Sport award for Excellence in Coaching and Leadership was introduced in 2010/11 sponsored by United Sports USA - experts in setting up American Sports Scholarships.

This award recognises the valued contribution that many of the sports pupils make within the School of Sport and the wider community.

Nominees

Nominations for this award were received for hockey players Jock Breckenridge, Lee Morton and Gordon Amour and gymnast Danna Sim.

Coaching and Leadership Excellence Award Winner

The winner of this year’s inaugural award is an exceptional student who not only devotes herself to her sport but to encouraging and supporting others. She is always motivated, happy and willing to take on any task asked of her. Nothing is too demanding as she proved at this year’s showcase event when she delivered an inspirational speech that wowed an audience of 300 people. This award goes to Danna Sim.

Danna Sim

Further information on the full list of nominees is detailed within the High Five Awards - Outstanding Achievement Nominees (44k) and High Five Awards - Most Improved Performer Nominees (40k) documents which are available for download in portable document format (PDF).

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