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Angus Sports Awards - Well Done Drew & Sian
The Angus Sports Awards 2010 was held at the Reid Hall, Forfar on Tuesday 8th March 2011. There was 6 awards in total which included; Service to Sport, Coach of the Year, Team of the Year, Young Sports Personality of the Year, Sports Personality of the Year for People with a Disability and Sports Personality of the Year.
Drew Christie had been put forward for the Sports Personality of the Year with Sian Bruce (17) being put forward for Young Sports Personality of the Year. We had a table of 10 who attended the awards dinner & enjoyed the evening. Even more so when the awards were announced. Young Sports Personality was up first, there was 18 in the category which was whittled down to 5, this included Footballers, Swimmers and Tennis players, but Sian took the award. We were so chuffed for her and brilliant for Clay Shooting as a Sport. Then it was onto the main award ‘Sports Personality of they Year’, there was only 5 in this category, the 5 sports were; Clay Shooting, Rugby Union, Modern Pentathlon, Cricket & Curling. This was then shortlisted to 3 which included Drew, we were amazed & thought that there was no way a shooter could win both of the awards, but to our amazement Drew’s name was announced as Sports Personality of the Year for Angus. The noise that came from our table was immense! We were so pleased, but unfortunately Drew was not there to collect the award as he was on his way back from a World Cup Shoot in Chile, so dad (Gavin) had to collect the award on his behalf.
This just goes to show that Clay Shooters are being recognised in the world of Sport, although be it a minority sport.
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