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Boxing Scotland are delighted to share an update on Stephen Simmons’ progress as Apprentice Coach.

The former Scotland and GB International Boxer began his new role with the Governing Body in March of this year as part of the sportscotland Coaching Futures programme.

In that time, Stephen has been providing coaching support to both the Boxing Scotland Elite Boxer Group and Performance Pathway Programme.

“It has been great and I have been learning a lot from the other coaches,” Stephen said.

“From the word go I have been immersed in the High Performance daily training environment.”

Meanwhile, Boxing Scotland Performance Director and Joint National Coach Craig McEvoy said it has been fantastic to have someone of Stephen’s experience on board, with the 37-year-old having represented Scotland in both the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games, securing Bronze in the latter, as well as attending multiple European and World Championship’s.

“We were absolutely delighted to secure our first ever Coaching Futures post this year, and even more delighted that we have got someone of Stephen Simmons caliber to join the coaching team,” Craig added.

“His experience is second to none and he is already thriving in the environment.”

 

Dear Members,

Please find some event information below.

Event: Boxing Scotland Intermediate Championships

Please find the bout order for on Saturday 16th October. Boxing will commence at 1100 on Saturday.

Running-Order-Day-1

Please find the bout order for Sunday 17th October. Please note that this will complete as the Championships Progress and bout winning names will automatically populate the spreadsheet for Sunday.  The updated running order for Sunday will be published Saturday evening after all the bout results are in. Only the Bout running order may change.

Finals updated 1430 – 21/10/21

Running-Order-Day-2

At the moment 3 Finals will remain outstanding Elite 60kg, Elite 64kg and Elite 81kg.  Once the finalists are known a suitable location will be sound to box the three remaining finals.

Coaches and Boxers Please note you only need to weigh in on the day you are down to box.

Event information.

Date: Saturday and Sunday 16th/17th October 2021

Venue: Ravenscraig Regional Sports Faculties, Motherwell, ML1 2TZ

Weigh in Times: 0800 – 1000,  Boxing Commences 1100

Spectator Charges 1 Day Adult £15 – 2 Day £25

Children U16 1 Day £10 – 2 Day £15

Concessions 1 Day £10 – 2 Day £15

Facilities on Site: Ravenscraig has a small Café’ on-site, selling tea, coffee, and limited hot food.

Cash Machine: There is no cash machine on the premises – we have the ability to take contactless payments

Spectators are welcome, please read the detailed administrative document for further details.

The main Hall at Ravenscraig is currently being operated by North Lanarkshire Health Authority to conduct COVID-19 Testing.  The facility is also being used as a COVID-19 Vaccination Centre. Care is to be taken when transitting the facility.

There will be a requirement for all personnel to wear a mask when inside the Facility.  Please see the Administrative document for mask requirements.

A full and detailed event document can be found at the link below.

Administrative-Document-Intermediate-Championships-season-21-22.pdf

A QR Code will be used to register spectators for the event and can be found around the front desk and around the spectator area.

Retrieve QR Code PosterPDF-int.pdf

Kind regards

Boxing Scotland

Boxing Scotland will be delivering a Child Wellbeing and Protection In Sport course to be held on Tuesday 26th October at the HPC in Glasgow.

The Course will be run and delivered by Boxing Scotland.

As previously mentioned and listed below the course has changed and can only be completed with the two modules being completed.  That’s the 30-40 minute online module followed by the 3-hour workshop.

The details and links to the course are below.

Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport (CWPS) Course Tuesday 26th October 1800-2100

Venue; Boxing Scotland Limited, High-Performance Centre, Olympia Theatre, 2 Orr Street, Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow, G40 2QH

Parking is available on the adjacent roads at this time for free alternatively, Bridgeton Train Station is opposite the facility.

 Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport (CWPS)

CWPS replaces UK Coaching’s, Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshop (SPC), which is no longer delivered through sportscotland.  CWPS takes a blended learning approach:  Module 1 is theory-based eLearning and Module 2, a 3 hour face-to-face scenario-based learning.  The main change from SPC is that each learner booked onto a CWPO course  MUST complete Module 1 before attending the face-to-face Module 2.   This must be completed prior to attending the workshop at the end of the session you will be asked to submit your name and email contact details.  This will then be verified against your attendance certificate when completing the workshop. Please click here to find more information from the FAQs.

The course will be limited to 16 places and will be on a first-come-first-served basis.  so to avoid disappointment book early.  To secure a place in the course payments must be received by 1500 Friday 23rd October 21. 

The final workshop of the year will be delivered virtually on Tuesday the 23rd November 21.

A reminder to all coaches that Coaches must hold an in-date 3 Yearly Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport Certificate at their club.

The cost of the course will be £15 per individual.  Payment can be made either by Cheque to Boxing Scotland Limited or bacs transfer to Boxing Scotland Ltd.  If you or your clubs intend to pay via bacs transfer please reference with your name of club or individual.  Payment must be made before Friday 23rd October 21.

Boxing Scotland Bank details numbers for any payments;

Boxing Scotland Ltd

Ac: 00663179

Sc: 83 20 06

Please ensure that name details CWPSOct21 are listed if bacs payments are made, this will allow the district to identify payments made.

The following details are to be included within each booking to attend the course;

Name, Address and Club. Contact numbers and email addresses are mandatory.

Names for the course must be passed to Marianne Crichton via the enquiries@boxingscotland.org  or the West Region Development Officer; Paul Coleman either by email paul.coleman@boxingscotland.org or Telephone 07803 513699 or text.

Dear Members,

Boxing Scotland is happy to share with you the Entries for the 2021-22 Intermediate Championships. Updated 12/10/21

List-of-Female-Intermediate-Entries-21.pdf

List-of-Male-Intermediate-Entries-21.pdf

The Championships will be held at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, Motherwell on the weekends of 16^th/17^th October.  Depending on entries there will be a requirement to hold a few further Intermediate finals at the HPC or move to a district event after the published dates.  These will be communicated in due course.

Please note, where a boxer has entered in a weight category that has at least one other entry they will remain in their chosen weight category.

Where a boxer has been entered and is a single entry in that age and weight category, the club will be given the opportunity to have the boxer moved one weight classification up or down.

If a club wishes to do so they must request in writing to competitions@boxingscotland.org by 12pm on Friday 8th October.

All other administrative amendments (ie wrong club name/age category) must also be e-mailed to competitions@boxingscotland.org by 12pm on Friday 8th October.

All payments must also have been received by Boxing Scotland from clubs for entry by 12pm on Tuesday 12th October, with the draw due to take place shortly after this.

Further details regarding the Championships and information regarding spectators will be published in due course.

Thank you to all of the clubs who entered and participated in the recent School & Junior Championships, as this was the first event in more than 18 months Boxing Scotland decided to help Clubs by allowing Boxer Books and coach badges to be collected on the day the championships.  This was done in anticipation that clubs may have fallen behind with the administration and paperwork over the pandemic.

Please note, going forward the following will be strictly enforced:

NO BOXER BOOKS CAN BE COLLECTED ON THE DAY

NO COACH BADGES CAN BE COLLECTED ON THE DAY

We are a small team who work extremely hard to ensure that all requests for cards and badges are met within the timescales, you can help us by ensuring that you have sight of your boxers book and your coaching badges at least one week before the competition.

If you have any queries regarding books or badges please email competitions@boxingscotland.org  after reading this post

Regards,

Boxing Scotland

Boxing Scotland are delighted to confirm that Jim Stirling has been appointed as the Chair of the new Boxing Scotland Officials Committee.

The Officials Committee replaces the previous R&J Commission, which has been dissolved, and will now be responsible for leading and driving the new Officials Pathway and future development workstrands.

Hamilton Boxing Club’s Jim Stirling, who already acts as the Chair for the Western District, was appointed following a transparent recruiting process that welcomed a number of applications.

North District President Donald Campbell has also been appointed as Vice Chair, while Leith Victoria’s Dougie Fraser has been named as Secretary and Appointments Officer; the remaining experienced delegates make up the remainder of the committee:

• Kevin Kerr
• George Brown
• Ravi Rai
• Stevie Morrison
• Paul Susans
• Norman Watt
• Arlene McEachran
• Willie Arbuckle

With a clear focus on continued growth and increased members, the Chair and Officials Committee will be responsible to Boxing Scotland CEO Chris Roberts for the management of officials, selection to events, qualifications and the requirement for continuous professional development both domestically and internationally for all officials within Scotland.

Jim Stirling said: “Firstly, I would like to thank Chris Roberts, the Boxing Scotland Board and the other members of the selection group for appointing me as the Chair of the newly formed Officials Committee in what is certainly an exciting time to be involved in the sport.

“Within Scotland we have a really good group of working officials who give up their time for the love of the sport, but we should all take the opportunity that has been presented to us with the new pathway to get better at our chosen discipline whether it is judging, refereeing, technical delegate, etc. A structured approach will help deliver this.

“The committee membership has a very good mix of active referees, judges, technical delegates and administrators who have volunteered for the committee in the belief that they can help to improve the quality of the boxing, which will in turn improve the quality of the boxers.

“This is the common goal which collectively must come above personal, club or regional interests. If we can achieve this the overall winner will be the boxers and Scottish boxing as a whole.

“To this end I would ask that everyone involved in Scottish boxing plays their part by backing the pathway.”

Boxing Scotland CEO, Chris Roberts OBE has expressed his contentment with such a fantastic committee.

Chris added: “We are in a great place with the members of the Officials Committee, I am sure that we will deliver the new and improved pathway, bringing all of our officials together with an informed programme.

“The Officials Pathway is a systematic, all-inclusive officiating programme, that will engage and prepare our volunteers to be successful, so that they can achieve their highest goals in the sport of boxing – both now and into the future.

“Under the leadership of our new Chair, Mr Jim Stirling, I am confident that we will achieve great things for our people and Boxing Scotland”.

Dear Members,

Nominations for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero Award 2021 are now open – and Boxing Scotland would like to encourage you to nominate any suitable candidate from the Boxing community.

The award honours sports volunteers in local communities who go above and beyond to encourage people to participate in physical activity.

Unsung Hero 2021 seeks out volunteers who in the last twelve months have inspired people of all ages to get up and be active and made a lasting impact on their community through sport.

The nominee must be 16 years or older and could work across an array of physical activities in their local community such as football clubs, rugby clubs, judo, cricket or even yoga, rock-climbing or dance. The winner can be involved in any way from steward to instructor or coach. If they have showed passion for their community and encouraged people to take up sport, then they could scoop the coveted award.

This year’s winner will follow last year’s recipient Sgt Matt Ratana who won the award posthumously in 2020 for bringing the community together to rebuild East Grinstead Rugby Club. Other recent Unsung Hero champions include Kieren Thompson who runs local sports projects in Nottingham to target young people who are at risk from gangs and violence, and Scottish swimming coach Kirsty Ewen who has raised awareness of mental health and helped others find a better place through swimming.

The Unsung Hero awards will be supported by Made by Sport, a charity that champions the power of sport to change lives and to shine a light on the thousands of organisations successfully using sport to tackle major social issues.

Supporting the search for the Unsung Hero 2021 is Olympic gold medallist and three times world champion heptathlete, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill – one of Great Britain’s most successful athletes.

The awards have also teamed up with BBC Local Radio’s Make a Difference campaign. Launched by all 39 BBC local radio stations in March 2020, Make A Difference is a virtual noticeboard for those offering help and those needing support. To date over 5.5 million people have now either called, texted, or messaged their local BBC radio station – helping to pull communities together and filling the airwaves with uplifting stories of the kindness of strangers.

Director of Sport, Barbara Slater says: “Unsung Hero is about recognising those in the community that have inspired people to take part in sports. Over the last twelve months, we’ve seen individuals step out, make a difference and use sport to transform their communities. They are true unsung heroes and it’s a privilege for the BBC to able to shine a light on their inspiring stories.”

Finalists will be drawn from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and each of the 12 English regions, with the winner receiving their award at this year’s BBC Sport’s Personality of the Year ceremony.

To nominate your Unsung Hero and Young Unsung Hero by video, audio, online webform or via email, simply visit www.bbc.co.uk/unsunghero. Entries close on Sunday 17 October at midnight.