PARALYMPIC star Maria Lyle has been nominated for female Parasport Personality of the Year at the inaugural 2017 Nordoff Robbins Scotland (NRS) Scottish Sporting Awards.
Lyle, from Dunbar, won three medals at the Rio Paralympics last year, and hundreds of locals turned out to welcome her back home at a ceremony at Hallhill.
If the 17-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, wins the award, it would cap a remarkable 12 months for the Dunbar teenager, who left school following her triple-medal success in Rio to take up a place at St Albans’ Oaklands College, where she receives elite-level training.
She was also named Scottish Young Athlete of the Year at the Team Scotland Awards last year, and won Young Sportsperson of the Year at East Lothian Council’s Celebrating Sport Awards
Nordoff Robbins Scotland is the country’s only music therapy charity, and they must raise £500,000 a year to carry out their work.
Lyle will find out if she has won at an awards ceremony at Prestonfield House in Edinburgh next Friday (March 10).
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