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.
Richard Brickley MBE
Richard joined Scottish Disability Sport (SDS) as a volunteer in 1975 and served the association as an office bearer for over 30 years. From 1984 until 2008 he was involved in seven successive Paralympic Games as a GB coach or international classifier. He has classified internationally for 25 years and has been appointed Chief Athletics Classifier for European and World Championships throughout the world, including the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Richard retired from Fife Council in 2006 but has maintained his interest and involvement in education, inclusive coaching, sports development and equity through SDS nationally and internationally.
John Burnett
John is Principal Curator of Modern Scotland at National Museums Scotland, where he specialises in the history of Scottish sport. He is the author of Sporting Scotland (1995) and Riot, Revelry and Rout:
Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860 (2002). He is co-author, with Professor Grant Jarvie, of Sport, Scotland and the Scots (2000). John is responsible for the museum’s extensive collection of sports related objects.
Jon Doig
Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland and former head of High Performance Sport at sportscotland, Jon enjoys a professional and personal interest in most sports, and has attended a number of international sports events in a team management capacity, including the Commonwealth Games and the World University Games.
Doug Gillon
One of Scotland’s most respected sporting journalists, Doug Gillon has a wealth of experience reporting across the length and breadth of Scottish sport, having reported on more than 60 sports in over 40 countries. Doug has covered every Commonwealth Games since 1970, every Olympic Games since 1972 and every world athletics championships since their inception in 1983. Doug is a former Scottish schools steeplechase champion and multiple university champion (but by his own admission, is now lamentably slower).
Professor Grant Jarvie
Professor Jarvie is Deputy Principal with the University of Stirling. He has extensive experience and understanding of sport and education both nationally and internationally and is a passionate advocate of the power of education and sport to make a difference. He comes from an international sporting family, is a sportscotland board member, is co-author, with John Burnett, of Sport, Scotland and the Scots (2002) and has provided policy advice on both higher education and sport not just to the Scottish Government but also internationally.
Norman Mair
Norman started his sporting career playing rugby for Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, Melrose and Scotland. He won four Scotland caps as hooker in 1951. On retiring from active rugby in 1958 he coached and gave talks on the game all over the UK. In 1952 he turned his hand to cricket and played for the Scotland national team. He later became a journalist, mainly for The Scotsman and he was the Scottish sports writer of the year six times in ten years. He also contributed to a number of other newspapers, including The Sunday Times. He is the author of two books on rugby.
Louise Martin CBE
Louise was appointed Chair of sportscotland in May 2008 having previously served two terms on the board between 1997 and 2005. Louise is passionate about all aspects of Scottish sport and is committed to encouraging everyone to discover and develop their own sporting experience. Louise is the Immediate Past Chair of the Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) and has a long and ongoing association with the Games as a competitor, team manager and administrator. Originally a practicing sports nutritionist, the vast majority of Louise’s work in sport has been undertaken in a voluntary capacity.
Andy Mitchell
Andy has a passion for the history of all branches of Scottish sport, specialising in football. He is Head of Communications for the University of Stirling and also a Media Officer with UEFA, having formerly spent 10 years with the Scottish Football Association.
Robin Morris
Robin is a former international banker and manager of a sports agency for 10 years and is now a freelance sports journalist, historian, researcher and statistician who helped found the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. As a former Scottish international athlete and official with a passion for golf, he is still competing and was Head of UK Athletics Mountain Running for seven years.
Colin Pearson
Colin is Strategic Head of Golf Development in Scotland for the Professional Golfers’ Association, and the Chair of Basketball Scotland. Colin was appointed to his role with the PGA in November 2008 after 18 years at sportscotland (as Director of Developing Potential since 2002). In a career spanning over 30 years in sports development, Colin has been closely involved in the development of Scotland’s governing bodies of sport, the creation of Coaching Scotland, and clubgolf, the junior golf programme that is the legacy of Scotland’s bid to host the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in 2014.
Alison Walker
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 TV history to broadcast live football reports. She has commentated, reported and presented more than 20 different sports. Among the major events she has covered are two Olympic Games, in Sydney and Beijing, three Commonwealth Games and 12 Open Golf Championships. Another career highlight was the 2003 UEFA Cup Final in Seville. She has just returned from covering the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
David Webster OBE
David was a record-holding weightlifter, 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. A former Senior Technical Representative of the Scottish Council of Physical Recreation and a Division Head of the Scottish Sports Council from its formation until 1974, he is also the author of many sports related books.
Mike Wilson
Mike is a freelance writer whose work can regularly be read in a variety of national newspapers, including the football desk at The Guardian and the sports desk at The Sunday Times Scotland. Mike has also been a freelance writer on the sports desk of the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of two books on Hibernian FC as well as Don’t Cry for me, Argentina, about Scotland’s 1978 infamous World Cup Campaign.