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We are proud to annouce Women in Football director Vikki Orvice has received a 2016 Inspiration Award.
7 November 2016
Women in Football director Vikki Orvice has received a 2016 Inspiration Award.
Vikki, received the 2016 Inspiration Award from the British Athletics Writers' Association - the first non track and field star to get the gong.
She has covered athletics for The Sun for 16 years after first joining the paper in 1995 as a football writer and was honoured in recognition of her work as one of the first women to write about sport for a national newspaper as well as her role in mentoring budding journalists and coping with a cancer diagnosis since 2007. From 2003-5 she was the first woman chair of BAWA in it's 54 year history.
Previous winners include Olympic athletes Steph Twell, Asha Philip and Yamile Aldama who all overcame major injuries to win honours on the track. Philip took Olympic 4x100m bronze in Rio this summer with Twell winning European 5,000m bronze in Amsterdam weeks earlier.
Vikki said: "I'm absolutely stunned and had no idea beforehand I was going to receive this. It's a great honour especially as it's usually given to Olympic athletes rather than someone who sits in a press box writing about them!"
Jessica Ennis-Hill won female athlete of the year with Mo Farah taking the male athlete of the year gong at the prestigious BAWA awards lunch in London.
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"I'm absolutely stunned and had no idea beforehand I was going to receive this. It's a great honour especially as it's usually given to Olympic athletes rather than someone who sits in a press box writing about them!"
Vikki Orvice