Verwood-based Emma Plimmer of Wimborne Athletic Club has been presented with the South West Athletics Newcomer Volunteer of the Year Award.
The presentation was made by Olympic athlete Jo Pavey at the South West Region Athletics Presentation Evening at Exeter on November 29, right.

Volunteer help is critical to the operation of most sports at a grass roots level particularly in athletics which demands a high volunteer input from coaches, officials and team managers.
Emma, partly in response to the involvement of her daughter Sophie, went straight in to qualifying as an official and had to do most of it online because of Covid restrictions.
She quickly established herself as a very confident and well organised event leader.

Emma then took that organising ability to managing cross-country teams and assisting with the team management of the composite Team Dorset squad which won its division of the UK Young Athletics League.

Emma and the club’s other volunteers were major contributors to Wimborne AC’s winning of the 13-team South West Athletics League in the 2022 season.
The club is always in need of new volunteer help and contact can be made through the club’s website wimborneac.co.uk.