An all-women panel of judges will select the winners of the ScottishPower Scottish Girls’s Soccer Awards after over a thousand nominations from the general public.
The winners are to be introduced at a ceremony on the thirtieth November at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
The awards rejoice success each on and off the sector, from worldwide stars like Erin Cuthbert and Christy Grimshaw to the volunteers who typically juggle an infinite quantity to supply alternatives for ladies and ladies to play the sport they love.
Former Scotland star Gemma Fay joins a panel of SWF CEO Aileen Campbell, Shirley Martin, the Scottish FA’s Head of Ladies & Girls’s Soccer, Fiona McIntyre, SWPL managing director, Kate Cooper, St Mirren WFC head coach and chair of the SWF Championship and League One administration committee and former participant and ScottishPower’s Senior Company Affairs Supervisor Stephanie Todd.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle supervisor, physio and someday bus driver Karen Mason has been shortlisted as Sunday Submit Volunteer of the Yr, alongside Dryburgh Athletic’s John Beatt, who has held many positions in any respect ranges of the membership, Ross County’s Glenda Scobbie, who helped discovered the staff and Annan Athletic coach Gary Cother, who has devoted his time to the membership after the lack of his spouse.
Golf equipment shortlisted for the ScottishPower Sustainable Membership of the Yr embody newly-crowned ScottishPower Highlands & Islands champions Ross County, Armadale Thistle, who’ve gone from power to power since linking up with the West Lothian membership, Glasgow aspect Rossvale who’ve constructed a considerable youth pathway to their newly-promoted SWPL2 aspect and north east membership Westdyke.
The Kat Lindner Award for Excellent Athletic and Educational Achievement, named after the previous Glasgow Metropolis participant who died all of a sudden in 2019, honours a participant who has excelled each on and off the sector.
The shortlist on this class consists of Celtic captain and accountant Kelly Clark, Rangers midfielder Tessel Middag whose MA included analysis into recognition of Girls’s Soccer in Scotland within the Seventies and Hamilton’s Josephine Giard, who combines medical analysis with being an envoy for Diabetes.
Commenting, Scottish Girls’s Soccer CEO Aileen Campbell stated: “Final 12 months’s ScottishPower awards ceremony at Hampden was an unimaginable night, marking the speedy development and visibility of the ladies’s recreation in Scotland.
“We acquired greater than twice as many nominations for this 12 months’s awards, highlighting some wonderful tales of success, bravery and sportswomanship, typically towards all odds. So it’s subsequently tremendously thrilling to disclose the shortlists, which once more showcases the perfect the ladies’s recreation has to supply and the ladies and ladies who typically don’t even realise the facility they’ve as position fashions.
“An enormous thanks is because of our Principal Companion ScottishPower for backing the awards once more, and to our media companions the Sunday Submit and MG Alba. I can’t wait to rejoice all these shortlisted at Hampden in November, however first the judging panel has a tough job forward.”
ScottishPower’s Stephanie Todd, who sits on the judging panel stated: “ScottishPower are extremely proud to be once more sponsoring this annual celebration of the ladies and ladies in Scotland who play the gorgeous recreation as Principal Companion of each Scottish Girls’s Soccer and the SWPL.
“Wanting by the nominations it’s clear there are such a lot of unsung heroes who go above and past to supply alternatives for women and girls of their communities, which is strictly why ScottishPower is backing ladies’s soccer in Scotland. All of these shortlisted deserve recognition, which is able to make judging an actual problem certainly.”
Tickets for the occasion can be found by way of Scottish Girls’s Soccer on fanbase.
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The shortlists in full:
SundayPost Volunteer of the Yr:
John Beatt (Dryburgh Athletic), Gary Cother (Annan Athletic), Karen Mason (Inverness Caledonian Thistle), Glenda Scobbie (Ross County)
Highlands and Islands Participant of the Yr:
Rebecca McMillan (Buckie Women), Bethany Sutherland (Sutherland Girls), Daisy Fraser (Ross County), Keira Syrjanen (Ross County)
Youth Staff of the Yr:
Ross County u18s, Bayside YPL, Musselburgh Windsor YPL, Glasgow Ladies U14s
Sportscotland Youth Participant of the Yr:
Sophie Ambrosini (Rossvale), Laura Berry (Motherwell/Rangers), Jessica Husband (Coronary heart of Midlothian), Keira Syrjanen (Ross County)
Youth Coach of the Yr:
Paul Murray (Bayside), Steven McLean (Jeanfield Swifts), Mick Docherty (Rossvale), Iain Maciver (Ross County)
SWFL Participant of the Yr:
Katie Hay (Armadale Women), Claire Hutton (Dunipace), Alex Davie (Dunfermline Athletic), Sarah Tait (Ayr United Growth/Cambusdoon)
SWFL Coach of the Yr:
Jamie Williamson (Armadale Thistle), Lauren Johnstone (Ayr United Growth/Cambusdoon), Stuart Wooden (Inverurie Locos), David Gaw (Kilwinning FA)
Barclays League One Participant of the Yr:
Rosie Alexander, Eva Ralston (each Stenhousemuir), Holly Ovens (Queen of the South), Katie White (Forfar Farmington)
Barclays Championship Participant of the Yr:
Megan Whiteford, Jemma McQuillan (each Rossvale), Clare Docherty (Ayr United), Brodie Rigby Wilson (East Fife)
Barclays Championship and League One Coach of the Yr:
Julie McSherry (Rossvale), Jack Cameron (Stenhousemuir), Craig Potter (Ayr United)
SWPL1 Participant of the Yr:
Caitlin Hayes (Celtic), *Kirsty Howat (Rangers), Amy Gallacher (Celtic), Bayley Hutchison (Aberdeen/Coronary heart of Midlothian),
SWPL 2 Participant of the Yr:
Ellie Kane (Queen’s Park), Dionne Brown (Kilmarnock), Ellie-Might Cowie (St Johnstone), Kaela McDonald-Nguah (Gartcairn)
SWPL Coach of the Yr:
Eva Olid (Hearts), Jo Potter (Rangers), Elena Sadiku (Celtic), Brian Graham (Partick Thistle)
Worldwide Participant of the Yr:
Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea), Claire Emslie (Angel Metropolis), Kirsty Hanson (Aston Villa) Christy Grimshaw (AC Milan)
ScottishPower Sustainable Membership of the Yr
Rossvale, Armadale Thistle, Ross County, Westdyke
Kat Lindner Award for Excellent Athletic and Educational Achievement:
Kelly Clark (Celtic), Tessel Middag (Rangers), Josephine Giard (Hamilton)
