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It was a memorable weekend for Aboyne Golf Club as history was made with a course record and club member Shannon McWilliam played in the Curtis Cup in the US.

Banchory Beavers ASC swimmers took part in the Westhill Invitational last month.

Aboyne Golf Club were winners of the Scott Trophy, held at Torphins Golf Course for the first time in its 89-year history.

One of the north-east’s most popular running events is back this year with a brand new sponsor, Aberdeenshire-based Plant Integrity Management Limited (PIM).

Lily MacDonald of Aboyne, competing for Garioch Gymnastics Club, returned home with two golds and a silver medal from the NDP Grades 6 and 5 in Perth recently.

Banchory girl Nicole Lockhead Anderson and nine-year-old bay gelding Gangnam Style II ensured a win for GB in the Pony Nations Cup on Sunday.

Aboyne Golf Club’s top team retained the Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association crown at Newmachar on Monday.

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Wigtown Bowling Club held its Open Pairs competition, sponsored by Jewson at the weekend. W

Former medallists, Glasgow 2014 internationals and emergent GB prospects from across Scotland will gather at the Scottish National Senior Championships in Grangemouth this weekend.

For readers d’un certain age, the arrival of the Victor on the newsagent’s shelves of a Friday afternoon signalled the availability of the latest instalment in the unlikely life of athletics’ great working-class hero. Alf Tupper, otherwise known as “The Tough of the Track”, was the outlier made good, working as a welder by day but burning off his running rivals the night before by rewarding himself with a healthy helping of fish and chips rather than a refreshing power shake.

While newer all-seater arenas can look mundane and homogeneous, there are still plenty of traditional grounds in Scotland and England to give the football leagues a mixture of variety and modernity.

People across Scotland are being given the chance to volunteer and be the face of the inaugural European Championships in 2018.

Nicknames are either funny, confusing or sometimes downright nonsensical. Football clubs are no different.

An Alford Academy student won two prizes at a gymnastics competition earlier this month.

Glasgow forwards coach Dan McFarland believes that making the breakthrough into the latter stages of European competition more regularly will have a knock-on benefit for the national team.

How much do you remember about the sporting highlights - national and international - of the past 12 months.

So often elite performers talk of childhood dreams and lifelong plans, explaining how the quest for success has been a long-term, all-consuming project. But with Laura Muir, it’s different. While there is no doubting the 1500 metres athlete’s standing after a year in which she has delivered records, titles, an Olympic final and now been voted Scottish Athlete of the Year by her peers, hopes of those accomplishments did not dominate her childhood.