Scottish Sports Hall of Fame

Selection Panel

The Selection Panel consists of experts from every corner of the sporting world. Their work is long and painstaking and the results are a fine list of sporting heroes.
They work independently and consider every nomination that is received during a series of meetings.
View the qualifying criteria and the online nomination form.

Alex Cameron – 2002

Was a former chief sports editor and chief sports writer of the Daily Record. Previously, he was sports editor and columnist with the Scottish Daily Mail. During his career, he covered seven World Cup Finals, seven Olympic Games, seven Commonwealth Games, four world athletic championships and two world boxing championships.
Alex sadly passed away in 2003.

John Burnett – 2002, 2003, 2004

Works in the National Museums of Scotland where he specialises in the history of Scottish sport. Author of Sporting Scotland (1995, and Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860-(2002). With Professor Grant Jarvie, he edited Sport, Scotland and the Scots (2000). He is responsible for developing exhibitions on sport at the National Museums of Scotland.

Bob Crampsey – 2002

Former head teacher in Coatbridge and long-established football writer and broadcaster with an even bigger passion for cricket. Author of 26 books on football, golf, cricket, politics and travel plus four novels.

Jon Doig – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland. Formerly head of High Performance Sport at sportscotland, after having worked in a similar position in New Zealand. Enjoys a professional and personal interest in most sports, and has attended a number of international sports events, both as a team member and in a speciation capacity, including the Commonwealth Games, the World University Games and World Cups in association with football, rugby union and cricket.

Doug Gillon – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

Athletics correspondent, The Herald newspaper. Covered Commonwealth Games since 1970, Olympics since 1972 and the world athletics championships since their inception in 1983. Reported on more than 60 sports from some 40 countries. Former Scottish schools steeplechase champion and multiple university champion, (but now by his own admission, lamentably slower).

Professor Grant Jarvie – 2003, 2004, 2007

Grant has been Professor of Sports Studies since 1997 and author of Scottish Sporting in Making the Nation, (1994); Sport, Scotland and the Scots, (2002 with John Burnett). Also former President of the British Society of Sports History, born in to a family of Scottish Internationals and currently Head of Department of Sports Studies and the University of Stirling.

Louise Martin – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

Chair of the Selection panel from 2004 to date.
Former international swimmer. Immediate past president of Scottish Gymnastics. Gymnastics team manager at the 1994 Commonwealth Games; deputy Chef de Mission at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland; honorary secretary, Commonwealth Games Federation; former sportscotland council member. Lecturer in Sports Nutrition.

Andy Mitchell – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

With a passion for football and the history of all branches of Scottish sport, head of communications at the Scottish Football Association and also Scottish secretary of the Association of Sports Historians.

Robin Morris – 2002 , 2003, 2004, 2007

Former international banker, manager of a sports agency for ten years and now freelance journalist historian, researcher and statistician. Former Scottish international athlete and official. Now head of UK Athletics’ mountain running division. Interests includes golf, books, pictures, garden, church and family, (married with two teenage daughters). Born, brought up and lives in Edinburgh.

Colin Pearson– 2004, 2007

Director of Developing Potential at sportscotland since 2002, his previous roles for sportscotland have included heading up both the Coaching and Governing Body teams. Prior to this Colin's work included three years in sport in Australia and over eight years managing Local Authority sport provision in Scotland. In recent years Colin co-ordinated sportscotland's input into Scotland's Ryder Cup Bid and has provided the strategic lead to the development of the Scottish Junior Golf programme on behalf of sportscotland.

Alison Walker – 2003, 2004, 2007

Alison has been involved in sports broadcasting since 1989, starting out in Radio and moving to Television in 1993. She was the first female in Scottish broadcasting to do live football reports. She has covered three Commonwealth Games, 12 Open Championships, to name but a few. Two events stand out for Alison: The 2003 UEFA Cup Final, live in front of 60,000 fans and the Olympics, 2000 in Sydney.

David Webster, OBE – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

As a competitor, a record-holding weightlifting, powerlifter, wrestler, sports acrobat and trampolinist. From 1957 to the present, he has held various posts with the Scotland Commonwealth Games team, including chairman of the Games Council, team manager and chef de mission.

Mike Wilson 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

Chair of the selection panel in 2002 and 2003.
Development director of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, appointed by sportscotland. Also, a freelance writer, for various national newspapers, including the football desk at The Guardian and the sports desks at the Sunday Times Scotland. Was previously a contracted freelance writer on the sports desk of the Sunday Telegraph. Author of two books on Hibernian FC as well as ‘Don’t Cry for me, Argentina’, about Scotland’s 1978 infamous World Cup Campaign.