2016 Awards Winners
Saturday 26th November saw us host our 3rd Annual Awards Night, once again in the Colville Park Club, Motherwell.
What a fabulous evening celebrating the achievements of 2016! It was our biggest one yet!!
2016 certainly has been busy year, a successful year and a memorable year. Thank you to all who came along to celebrate the students achievements throughout this past year.
After a run down of the years events on the evening, which included details of the competition wins throughout 2016, we did count that GMAC students entered no less than 22 tournaments in 2016, almost 1 every second weekend! (We certainly were a busy bunch this year). Mr. McIlvaney asked the question “How many medals did we win over the year?”
Well now we’ve counted, it took some time 
…..excluding our inter club competitions, we won a grand total of 105 Gold, 129 Silver and 133 Bronze medals in 12 months….WOW!!!
As most of the awards have now been handed out to those who couldn’t make it on the evening, we’ve now collated the full list of winners and runners up, detailed below:
STUDENTS CHOICE AWARDS
ITF Kids
Winner: Sanaya Panesar.
Runner’s Up: Connor Campbell & Max Watson
Little Ninja’s
Winners: Livingston Class 1 – Connor McCullagh
Livingston Class 2 – Harris Stewart
Wishaw – Ethan Massey
Uddingston – Isla Harper
Runner’s Up: Connor Shepherd (LC1), Kayla Walker (LC1), Nickolas Brown (LC2), Declan Bowman (LC2), Zander McLean (W), Charlotte Daly (W), Keeva Lynch (U) and Alexis Shaw (U)
Kickin Kid’s
Winners: Livingston Class 1 – Mhairi Crookston
Livingston Class 2 – Josh Dunsmore
Wishaw – Callum Durie
Uddingston – Sharon Shaw
Runner’s Up: Kera McLeish (LC1), Aiden McDaid (LC1), Megan Doherty (LC2), Sydney Farrell (LC2), Kiana Munro (LC2), Sam Jones (W), Declan McAvoy (W), Kenzie Hailstones (U) and Owen Gallacher (U)
Junior Taekwon-Do
Winners: Livingston – Donatella Fargnoli
Wishaw – Hayden McAvoy
Uddingston – Callum Geoghans
Tollcross – Caitlin Hughes
Runner’s Up: Connor Hall (L), Bethan Turner (L), Kyle Lynch (L), Anton McMenemy (W), Josh Miller (W), Ben Melrose (U), Lewis Gilchrist (U), Ryan Thomson (T) and Kimberley Gill (T)
Senior Taekwon-Do
Winners: Livingston – Jason Munro
Wishaw – Ellie Weir
Uddingston – John Melrose
Runner’s Up: Jacolin Brown (L), Gary McAlister (L), Cerys Turner (L), Ross Cowan (W), Gary McAvoy (W), Jamie Thomson (U) and Callum Gilchrist (U)
Junior Kickboxing
Winners: Livingston – Ethan McEwan
Uddingston – Nathan Willis
Runner’s Up: Dale McQuade (L), Sophie Niezbecka (L), Megan Crosbie (U) and Ben Melrose (U)
Senior Kickboxing
Winners: Livingston – Ewa Malwinska
Uddingston – Scott Goodman
Runner’s Up: Emma Walker (L), Dorota Ungeheuer-Loza (L), Colin Cupples (U) and Lorna Geoghans (U)
STUDENTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS (Instructor’s Choice)
ITF Kids
Winner: Holly Rees-Nicol
Runner’s Up: Ziva Lewicka and Dylan Turnbull
Little Ninja’s
Winners: Livingston Class 1 – Lewis Watt
Livingston Class 2 – Jakub Krug
Wishaw – Alex Nisbet
Uddingston – Conolyn Lynch
Runner’s Up: Rosa Ameno (LC1), Jessica Halloran (LC1), Jacob Christison (LC2), Jonathan Maciver (LC2), Jamie Coombes (W), Ethan Massey (W), Ellie Menzies (U) and Harry Kirk (U)
Kickin Kid’s
Winners: Livingston Class 1 – Eilidh Watts
Livingston Class 2 – Roshan Haq
Wishaw – Declan McAvoy
Uddingston – Ben McSeveney
Runner’s Up: Chloe Jervis (LC1), Sami Save-Kimmings (LC1), Kaity Weir (W), Dylan McMaster (W), Arran Harper (U) and Daniel Hedges Jnr (U)
Junior Taekwon-Do
Winners: Livingston – Kyle Lynch
Wishaw – Anton McMenemy
Uddingston – Lewis Gilchrist
Runner’s Up: Adrian Lewicki (L), Betahn Turner (L), Ross Kellechan (W), Jaimie Singleton (W), Callum Geoghans (U) and Ben Melrose (U)
Senior Taekwon-Do
Winners: Livingston – Nicola Hamilton
Wishaw – Gary McAvoy
Uddingston – Colin Cupples
Tollcross – Lauren Watson
Runner’s Up: Desoina Athanasiadou (L), Ciaran Livingstone (L), James Murphy (W), Ethan McKenna (W), Graham Brown (U), Daniel Hedges (U), John Rafferty (T) and Robert Parsons (T)
Junior Kickboxing
Winners: Livingston – Aidan Soave
Uddingston – Ben Melrose
Runner’s Up: Olivia Loza (L), Jack Robertson (L), Ben McSeveney (U) and Rhys Keenan (U)
Senior Kickboxing
Winners: Livingston – Audrey McQuade
Uddingston – Lorna Geoghans
Runner’s Up: Eddie Christie (L), Adrian Knap (L), Gary Todd (U) and Brian Keenan (U)
TENET AWARDS
Sam Jones – Indomitable Spirit
Ryan McMenemy – Indomitable Spirit
Isa Haq – Indomitable Spirit
Cerys Turner – Indomitable Spirit
BLACK BELT PROMOTIONS 2016
1st DEGREE:
Anton McMenemy, Hayden McAvoy, Ciaran Livingstone, Bethan Turner, Donatella Fargnoli & Ross Cowan
2nd DEGREE
Ethan McKenna, Melissa Brown, Megan Brown, James Murphy & Gary McAvoy
3rd DEGREE
Jason Munro
COMPETITOR OF THE YEAR
JUNIOR’S (12 & under)
Uddingston – Ben McSeveney (18 points)
Tollcross – Caitlin Hughes (27 points)
Livingston – Kieran Farrell & Kyle Lynch (both 30 points)
Wishaw – Nathan Cowan (47 points)
TEEN’S (13 – 17 years)
Livingston – Jay Jervis (40 points)
Wishaw – Jaimie Singleton (65 points)
ADULTS (18 years & over)
Tollcross – Robert Parsons (11 points)
Uddingston – Graham Brown (25 points)
Livingston – Despina Athanasiadou (33 points)
Wishaw – Megan Brown (40 points)
Congratulations to all the award winners and runners up, you all achieved so much this past year. Congratulations also to each and every student, as you all continually work hard to achieve your goals. We are all proud of your efforts.
We must thank all those who worked hard these past few months, working countless hours behind the scenes to bring it all together on night, setting up, and dismantling afterwards. Without a great team behind us GMAC wouldn’t be what it is, huge thank you to Lorna, Kerris, Chris, John & Jason for everything you do.
Thank you to Magic Pete, for entertaining the children during the evening, we loved watching them have fun playing all the games, whilst the parents got to enjoy their dinner 😊.
And finally thank you to Jason Kimmings Photography, again capturing all the emotions of the evening. We look forward to seeing all the photos soon.
It was another memorable evening, we look forward to see what you can all achieve in 2017…and are already planning an even bigger and better awards night for next year!
Mr & Mrs Mac & Team
