Congratulations to all our 2022 Award Winners. Stan Stoodley, President of Scottish Fencing, at the 2022 AGM added that it was very hard to single anyone out as there were so many fantastic performances and improvements made this year. Scottish Fencing will make the award presentations in the coming weeks. Check our social media channels to see the presentations.
Our 2022 winners are:
Crosnier Coaching Award
Phil Carson
Phil’s Nomination
His record this last year speaks for itself. He had:
· 21 members in Commonwealth teams
· 9 members in British teams
· gold medallist in u12 British championship
· British members in the cadets juniors senior and veteran teams
And he kept coaching online during the lockdown and beyond.
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“I’d like to thank Stephen Rennie for nominating me for this award in what has been a challenging but rewarding year. We have an amazing coach community in Scotland and I’m delighted to accept the award on behalf of all our coaches at Salle Ossian and across the coaching community who work tirelessly to give people the opportunity to participate in our amazing sport"
Crosnier Quaich – Performance
Callum Penman
Callum’s Nomination
Callum Penman for his continued stellar attitude, sportsmanship, and hard work. His achievements this year have been outstanding. Domestically he is the current Men’s Foil Scottish Open Champion. Internationally he won multiple medals including: 2022 commonwealth silver senior team, silver junior individual, and gold cadet team events. On the European circuit he won the Cadet event in Manchester and team Silver at the European Championships. Most recently he was selected to compete in his first Senior World Cup in Bonn, making it out of the pools and placing 149th. Peter Pan has nothing on this guy!
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“I would like to thank Scottish fencing very much for this award and I’m very happy to receive it. Also would like to thank Paul Stanbridge for nominating me and would really like to show my appreciation to my coach Keith Cook who’s been coaching me since I was 6 years old and who’s helped me get to where I am today. Lastly I would like express my gratitude to Salle Holyrood for being the sort of club that encourages me and other fencers to reach their full potential.”
Sword of Merit
Sean Walton
Sean’s Nomination:
Sean has been a stalwart of Scottish Fencing for at least 40 years, as fencer, team member, coach to a variety of high achieving fencers, selector and founding member of Salle Holyrood.
In recent years he has been recognised by BF for his innovative work on the Fencing podcast and is well known from commentating on fencing competitions worldwide, with his own personal style. It has been an impressive contribution.
It has culminated this year, in his creation of the Commonwealth Experience Video. As I look at how we will celebrate 100 years of SF next year, the video offers me a personal memory of this years’ Commonwealth competition and SF a historical record. Thank you
“Delighted to win this award. Like an early Christmas present but much bigger and more difficult to wrap.”
