Portland College Awards Day

It was a huge honour to be invited along with Past President Peter Pickering to Portland College's Awards Day.  Our club have had links with the College for many years and the College represented Hucknall Rotary Club with great distinction at the English National Disability Sport Team Championships http://www.rotarydisabledsports.org.uk/   being crowned 2012 Championship.

For this which has been described as "the greatest sporting achievement in Portland's history", the team won the College's 'Harrison Trophy for Outstanding Achievement' .  For the first time, we sponsored a trophy for 'Sports Person of the Year' and this was won by Mitchell Gosling who was a key member of the team that represented Hucknall Rotary Club.   Another member of our successful team, Jack Soyer, won the Walter Laughton Memorial Trophy for Student of the Year.

The awards were presented by polar explorer Fiona Thornewill MBE who also gave a brief talk on how she when from being an average school student to becoming the first British woman to walk to the South Pole (2000), and in 2001 the first British lady to walk to the North Pole.  In 2004, she became the first British woman to ski solo and unsupported 700 miles to South Pole, breaking the world record for being the fastest man or woman to ever make the journey in only 41 days.