EFA Dinner and Awards 2013

The 2013 EFA Dinner took place in London on Saturday night and was another memorable occasion; the event featured the second end of season award ceremony with the winners in each category voted for by the Eton Fives-playing public. An even higher number of votes was cast than last year and one or two of the categories were incredibly close; the big winners on the night were the Old Millhilllians who took home the Team of the Year award and also the Coach of the Year award for Steve Plummer. George Campbell and Karen Hird were rewarded for their breakthroughs this season with the Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards and John Reynolds was the victor in an incredibly strong field in the Special Contribution to Fives category.

EFA President Richard Barber paid tribute to the outgoing EFA Chairman Peter Worth, reminding everyone of the enormous strides made by the game during his tenure and also treated the assembled throng to a description of the remarkable Fives career of Gordon Stringer, former Secretary of the EFA and mastermind of the Old Citizens Fives club for a huge number of years, who became the second recipient of the EFA Lifetime Achievement award.

EFA Awards 2013

Player of the Year: 1. George Campbell 2. Tom Dunbar 3. Seb Cooley


Young Player of the Year: 1. Karen Hird 2. Jamie Abbott 3. Constance Mantle


Team of the Year: 1. Old Millhillians 2. Eton College 3. North Oxford


Coach of the Year: 1. Steve Plummer 2. James Poole 3. Mike Hughes


Special Contribution to Fives: 1. John Reynolds 2. Andrew Aitken 3. Rodney Knight/Richard Black


Lifetime Achievement Award: Gordon Stringer