On Thursday 19 June, Sport Imperial held the fifth annual Imperial ARCS event.
On Thursday 19 June, Sport Imperial held the fifth annual Imperial ARCS (Appreciation, Recognition and Celebration of Sport) event in the Queen’s Tower Rooms. The event brought together over 100 guests including students, staff, coaches, officials, sponsors and partner organisations.
We were lucky enough to have three inspirational speakers for the evening:
- Sally Gunnell – an Olympian turned television presenter and motivational speaker
- Vince Macaulay – Head Coach and Chief Executive of London Lions
- Luke Lancaster – founder of the Young Pioneers charity
Sally entertained our guests with the interesting story of how she became a professional athlete and her experience of winning the Olympic Gold Medal at Barcelona in 1992. After Sally’s speech, we also had the opportunity to hear stories of how Vince became the Head Coach of the London’s only professional basketball club – London Lions, and how they secured the London 2012 Olympic Venue – The Copper Box. Luke Lancaster shared his experience of founding the Young Pioneers charity at the age of 12!
Awards were presented in the following categories to the winners:
- Coach of the Year – Tom Burwell(ICSMRFC) - Sponsored by Serpentine Running Club
- Sports Media Award – Varsity Live Production Team – Sponsored by Felix
- Ethos Award – Shannon Jewell – Sponsored by Fit for Sport
- Sports Ambassador of the Year – Zain Abbas – Sponsored by Young Pioneers
- Individual Athlete Special Recognition Award – Wilf Kimberley(Rowing)
- Athlete of the Year – Chris Bannon (Athletics) – Sponsored by FastFins
- BUCS Number One National Ranking Award – IC Boat Club
- Student Team of the Year – American Football – Sponsored by Kukri
- Student Club of the Year – IC Tennis – Sponsored by Matrix
We would also like to thank each and every student that participates in sport or physical activity at the College. Each and every one of you play your part in making sport such a growing success and we thank you all for doing so.
– Neil Mosley
Head of Sport Imperial
We would like to congratulate all those that were nominated for awards and of course the winners, and thank all of our sponsors and special guests who partnered with us to make this event such a success.
We look forward to making next year’s event even bigger and better and wish you all the best of luck for the next academic year and sporting seasons.
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