Every year Scottish Fencing presents three awards:
· The Crosnier Quaich for Performance,
· The Crosnier Coaching Award, and
· The Sword of Merit.
As part of Scottish Fencing’s new tradition of opening up the awards to public nominations and vote the Scottish Fencing members will decide the winners for the Crosnier Quaich Performance Award and the Crosnier Coaching award. The Board of Scottish Fencing will decide the winner of the Sword of Merit Award.
We will announce all the winners at the Scottish Fencing AGM.
You can read about the nominations below and use this link to vote for the award nominees.
Please note there is one vote per member and only votes that have a valid membership number will be counted.
Voting closes at noon on 5 December.
Crosnier Quaich – Performance Award
Below are the nominees for this year in the words given to us by those putting them forward:
1. Hugh Kernohan
“Hugh has repeatedly won gold at the veteran age groups and was top to be selected this year. Qualifying for the vets at the world championships again he has improved his result every time he has competed; achieving individual Bronze this year. This year he also helped the team to win silver.
As a veteran he was in the Scottish squad in the home nations. These are just a few of his results.”
2 Callum Penman
“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!”
3 Georgina Usher
“Georgina has had an exceptional year of achievement within the senior and veteran circuit, and I think would be a worthy winner of this award. To be achieving at senior and veteran in the 50-59 category is a major achievement.
Achievements in the last 12 months include:
Seniors – 3rd in the British nationals, 1st Scottish Open, 5th in the Milner Barry, and 1st Welsh Open
Veterans – 1st British Veterans Championship 21/22, Gold at the Commonwealth Championships, individual and team, winner of the 50-59 age medal, London 2022, individual Bronze and team Silver at the World Championships in Zadar 2022. “
Crosnier Coaching Award
This award recognises the hard work our coaches do in our clubs developing the sport and bringing the fencing community together. Coaches need to be on the British Fencing Coaches register or retired to be eligible. As there is only one nominee this year there is no public vote . Our nominee for this year is:
1 Phil Carson
“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.”
Sword Of Merit
This award is nominated by the Scottish Fencing community and the winner decided by the Scottish Fencing Board. Our nominee for this year is:
1 Sean Walton
“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 British Fencing 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 Scottish Fencing next year, the video offers me a personal memory of this years’ Commonwealth competition and Scottish Fencing a historical record. Thank you.”
