GHS Sport and Dance Awards: Sports Personality of the year award

Joe McBeath-<o:p></o:p>

Joe has been excelling in his first season playing at 11 asides whilst playing for Edinburgh South CFC. He has captained his under 13 side to silverware in the Edinburgh Cup as well as reaching the semi final of the Ken Ritchie Cup. He also led his side to an emphatic lead in the race for the league title and won 26 out of a possible 30.<o:p></o:p>

Joe is a versatile player who mainly plays in defence but can also play in centre midfield. He has a decisive influence on his team and has strong communication skills in his role as team captain.<o:p></o:p>

Abigail Hunter-<o:p></o:p>

Abigail has been a trailblazer of girls football at Gracemount High School and has been setting the standards high in our new Girls School of Football programme. <o:p></o:p>

Abigail currently plays for Hearts Girls and featured in a strong team who finished runners up in a highly competitive league last season.

Following in the footsteps of her cousin Michaela McAlonie who is a Scotland internationalist; Abigail has been trialling for the Scotland Internationalist set up and we will no doubt see her playing for our national team in the years to come.<o:p></o:p>

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Brandyn Bain-<o:p></o:p>

Brandyn catapulted into the Academy at Heart of Midlothian in 2017 and has progressing into a solid goalkeeper at Club Academy Scotland level.<o:p></o:p>

Brandyn is currently playing for Hearts Under 16s and has lofty ambitions of making the first team. A particular achievement this season was his dramatic penalty save against rivals Rangers.<o:p></o:p>

Brandyn was also selected to compete for the Edinburgh Under 15 select squad in the National Shield and commanded some strong performances for this team. <o:p></o:p>

Kris Young-<o:p></o:p>

Kris has had an incredibly strong first season since joining new club Lasswade FC under 13. <o:p></o:p>

Kris played a commanding role in defence for his team who won the last two games of the season to clinch the league title. His highlight was a man of the match performance to help beat rivals Hutchison Vale in a game that all but decide the league title winners.<o:p></o:p>

Amy Dickson

Amy has a scholarship at the Manor school of ballet were she studies Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Aero and Musical Theatre.  She is sliver bar in Jazz and Tap and Intermediate in ballet. She has performs yearly at the Churchhill theatre. 

A dedicated member of the GHS Dance Academy since first year, She was part of the winning GHS senior dance team, playing Peter Pan. 

She was one of the Young Ambassadors for Gracemount High School and ran weekly clubs. She is now part of the Young Ambassadors development group for Edinburgh Council helping to foster new ideas for more young people to participate in sport.

Rhys Anderson

Rhys has had another very successful football season. Still at Musselburgh, for the moment anyway, and they’ve had a great season.  They won the under 16s Holland cup which took place during Easter over in Amsterdam.  Rhys and the team had to overcome some stiff competition beating a top level English team to win the tournament. 

Rhys was once again scouted this year (was scouted last year too)  to play for the south east region team.  The south east region team entered into Scotland’s regional tournament winning the overall tournament which ended 5-0 against the west region back on the 29 April.  Rhys played extremely well in this tournament particularly the final which took place through in Glasgow.  

Musselburgh also reached the league cup final but lost to Calvary park. 

 Last year he won all three awards at Musselburgh Players Awards.

Erin Carter

Erin plays for Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic and has done for the past four years. This season the team has; won the league cup plate, in the remaining 16 for the Scottish cup and they are currently sitting 1st in the league. Last year she won Top goal scorer as well as coaches players.

Erin is part of girls school of football has made lots of positives contributions to the girls team in the different tournaments they have played in this year.


Erin is also part of the GHS Dance Academy and was part of the team who came 2nd place in the Edinburgh Schools Dance Competition.