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Bristol City star Alex Scott picked up the top award as the breadth and depth of Guernsey sport was celebrated this week.
Scott scooped the Guernsey Sports Commission Trophy for the Outstanding Performer of the Year at the commission’s annual Sporting Achievement Awards.
The award comes as he is linked with Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth, Leicester City, Wolves, Brighton & Hove Albion and Leeds United in the January transfer window.
Alex Scott has won the Guernsey Sports Commission Trophy for the outstanding performer in 2022! ???? pic.twitter.com/3CBrOHgvcq
— Bristol City FC (@BristolCity) January 13, 2023
Top sportswomen of the year and winner of the Guernsey Brewery Salver was Lucy Beere, who became the first local athlete to win a Commonwealth Games medal in nearly 30 years when she claimed silver in the bowls.
Pictured: Lucy Beere.
Another Commonwealth medal winner was also recognised at the ceremony at Beau Sejour.
Alastair Chalmers pushed on for bronze in the 400m hurdles in Birmingham, claiming the island’s first ever medal in athletics.
He was awarded the Richard Burton Salver for the outstanding individual sporting achievement of the year by a sportsman.
Top young sportsperson of the year was golfer Ollie Chedhomme after he was the first Guernsey player to win the Hampshire Boys Championship since Peter Wilcox in 1978.
Congratulations to Ollie Chedhomme who has gone back-to-back for the Lambourne Shield!
— Guernsey Golf Union (@GsyGolfUnion) January 12, 2023
A special mention to Jayden Tucknott & The Junior Inter-Insular Team who were both shortlisted into the top 3 for their respective nominations. https://t.co/LF2fvzP4a0
The Beau Sejour Trophy for the outstanding team performance by a team of under 18s was awarded to the Guernsey Cricket Under 17 team for their run in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup European Division 2 Qualifier, played on home soil in July.
Although they narrowly missed out to Italy in the final their hard-fought win over Norway in the semi-final saw them win promotion to Division 1.
Guernsey Cricket also took home the Sports and Nautical Events Shield for their hosting of the World Cup qualifier event.
Great night @GuernseySports Awards picking up the Sports and Nautical Shield and Beau Sejour Trophy for the @icc_europe U19 CWC Div 2 hosting and qualification. The boys will be in @KNCBcricket in August for Div 1 and a shot at World Cup qualification. #GSCAwards22 @DarwinEscapes pic.twitter.com/yWIWdlyovk
— Guernsey Cricket (@guernseycricket) January 12, 2023
The Sports Commission Small Team trophy went to the Ladies Commonwealth Games swimming relay team of Orla Rabey, Tatiana Tostevin, Laura Le Cras and Molly Staples who qualified for the finals of both the 4 x 100m freestyle and medley relays. Up against the big swimming nations, they finished in seventh and sixth respectively setting new Island records in the process.
The Trophy for teams of over four competitors went to St Martin’s ACt after they became the first team since Vale Rec in the early 80s to finish a Priaulx League campaign undefeated.
In May they were crowned CI champions with victory over St Clement - the first Guernsey team to lift the Upton Park Trophy in a decade.
Sight impaired climber Michael Ellis was awarded the Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson Trophy for the Para-Sport athlete with a physical impairment. He was second at his debut climbing competition after he headed to Wales in September for the third round of the national paraclimbing series.
Pictured: Michael Ellis.
There were joint winners of the Ferbrache & Farrell Trophy for the Para-Sport athlete with a Learning Impairment.
Badminton’s Clint Gardner and Jay Webber took home the trophy after their performance in the Special Olympics GB Summer Series of Sport where they both won gold in their respective singles events then combined to take gold in the mixed doubles.
The Dave Dorey Trophy is awarded for the outstanding contribution to sport and went to Guernsey’s only international blue badge table tennis umpire Ben Foote.
The highlight of his year was umpiring the men’s gold medal match between England’s Liam Pitchford and India’s Sharath Kamal Achanta at the Commonwealth Games.
Rifle shooter Nick Kerins was awarded the Sir John Loveridge Trophy for the sportsperson making the greatest progress in the year. He reached his first final for the HM Queens prize at the National Championships at Bisley, finishing seventh against some of the best shooters in the world.
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