Review of the Year
JULY
- World Cup star Lana Clelland passed on her expertise to a group of delighted Jeanfield Swifts girls.
- Scott Fenwick reflected on 40 years of work in golf at Gleneagles.
- St Johnstone historians Alastair Blair and Brian Doyle were applying the finishing touches to ‘The 60 Greatest Saints’ book project.
- A new-look season at Perth Racecourse got under way with racing behind-closed-doors with no spectators due to COVID-19.
- The easing of coronavirus restrictions allowed for kids’ tennis camps to take place across the region.
- Promising Perthshire golf ace Daniel Bullen was crowned under-16 winner at the England North East Championship.
- Middle-distance athlete Sol Sweeney was looking to the future with renewed optimism and targeting a place at the Olympics.
AUGUST
- St Johnstone opened up their Premiership season with a 1-1 draw away at Tannadice. Liam Craig netted the leveller.
- Motorcycle talent Rory Skinner made a dream start to the British Supersport Championship, winning both races at Donington Park.
- Laura Muir claimed a new British record for the women’s 1000m while competing at the Diamond League in Monaco.
- Golfer Daniel Young made his first European Tour cut at the Wales Open and wanted it to be the catalyst for more.
- Sixteen-year-old Perthshire golfer Gregor Graham teed-up at the prestigious British Amateur Championship.
- Soupy Soups was winner of the £25,000 bet365 Sam Morshead Perth Gold Cup. Action was again behind closed doors.
SEPTEMBER
- After much deliberation with long-term coach Ann Dickson, Perth’s Stephen Milne joined the renowned programme of senior swimmers at Stirling University.
- Andrew Jowett expressed his pride after being named Gleneagles’ new head of golf.
- Salle Ossian Fencing Club coach Phil Carson noted that members Kate Daykin, Jess Corby and SJ Hampson are in with a “realistic chance” of competing at the Olympic Games in 2024.
- Perthshire curler Mili Smith enjoyed a successful first competitive outing with Team Aitken, winning the September Shoot-out event.
- Callum Davidson gave his backing to St Johnstone’s goal-shy strikers after a quiet spell in the forward department.
- Crieff and Strathearn RFC appointed a new director of rugby. Kieran Burrows took up the role.
OCTOBER
- Local ice hockey talent Harry Elder was invited to trial for the under-18 Great Britain squad.
- Rory Skinner was crowned the youngest ever winner of the British
Supersport Championship.
- Saints announced the signing of Israeli striker Guy Melamed. He had to quarantine due to the pandemic.
- There was double delight for Perth Strathtay Harriers at the online Scottishathletics’ awards night. Alan Erickson was named Club Coach of the Year while the Harriers also won the Janice Eaglesham Para Development Club of the Year prize.
- Cadyn Thomson was the first representative from Perth and Kinross on the Scottish Disability Sport Young Persons’ Sports Panel.
- St Johnstone WFC’s Rebecca McGowan scored a stoppage time winner to defeat Stirling Uni as the new season kicked off.
- Fair City basketball player Andrew Richardson was shooting for Great Britain honours at Masters level.