County sprint sensation Maria Lyle was celebrating again at the weekend after winning another coveted prize.

Lyle, who has cerebral palsy, claimed British Athletics’ Young Paralympic Athlete of the Year award last Friday, capping a remarkable year for the Dunbar teenager.

And she was delighted to have won the award.

She told Courier Sport: “It was really nice to get the award – it was a tough competition but it’s nice to be recognised and know that people think you’re doing well.

“It’s been a crazy year – it was realy good and I’m just hoping to build on it all in 2015.” Her incredible rise to prominance began in February when, on her international debut, Lyle set a T35 200m world record at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai.

Her time of 31.01s signalled just how good the Dunbar Grammar School pupil could be, as she demolished the previous record of 32.27s, set by China’s Ping Lui in 2005.

And she duly followed that up in May when she broke a second world record at the Loughborough International Festival, when she clocked an impressive 14.83 seconds in the 100m.

The 14-year-old was far from finished there, though, as she travelled to Swansea in August as part of Team GB for the IPC European Athletics Championships, and she went on to achieve success there too.

She claimed gold in the T35 100m on a cold Wednesday afternoon, before regrouping 24 hours later to claim a second gold in as many days in the 200m.

Lyle’s rise to fame has seen her tipped by many as a future Paralympics star, so much so that she has been named among prospective medallists for the next edition in Rio in 2016.

She has been awarded Paralympic Podium funding and is among a host of household names expected to medal in Rio who were awarded the funding.

In October, she was recognised again, this time by East Lothian Council, as she was named Young Sports Person of the Year at the council’s Celebrating Sport Awards at The Brunton.

She has also been named International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month for October, and won Young Sports Person of the Year at the Lothian Disability Sport Awards earlier in the year, and her latest award caps a magnificent breakthrough year for the Dunbar teenager.

And Lyle outlined to Courier Sport her ambitions for the next 12 months.

“My main aim is to qualify for the World Championships in Doha in October,” she said. “It will mean a different training schedule because it’s a longer season, so it’s all about peaking later. That will be difficult, but I enjoy a challenge.” Such are her talents that Lyle was reguarly breaking world record times at the age of just 13, but they were unable to be ratified without international classification – not possible because of her age.

But when she turned 14 she became eligible to compete for Team GB and has taken to it like a duck to water this year, and will be hoping that the new year lives up to the successes of her debut season.

To mark another memorable weekend, Lyle also enjoyed an evening at The Hydro in Glasgow, as she was among the audience for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards on Sunday, where the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Sir Chris Hoy and Cristiano Ronaldo were recognised.

She said: “It was really good – I saw Tom Daley, Foggy [Carl Foggarty], Andy Murray’s mum Judy, and it was great fun.” And Lyle hopes that she can emulate the likes of Hamilton and Hoy and make her way onto the stage at the coveted awards ceremony one day.