REDINGENSIANS Rams Rugby Club’s Seb Reynolds is among several local sports stars nominated for a prestigious award.

The backs coach is on the short list of three in the Coach of the Year category for Get Berkshire Active’s annual awards dinner to be held in Reading.

Bulmershe (Woodley) gymnast Olivia Goves, who holds Southern and British tittles in the 15-17 age group, is among three nominees for the Junior Sports Personality of the Year category.

Two weeks ago she won the Excellence in Sport trophy at the Wokingham Borough Sports Council awards.

Another Woodley team, Kingfisher Table Tennis Club’s juniors, face competition from Reading-based Albatross Diving Club and Bracknell senior men’s gymnasts in the Team Performance of the Year category.

Reading Rockets, with their This Girl Can Ball scheme, are on the short list for the Youth Engagement Project of the Year prize.

Maiden Erlegh, Waingels College (Woodley) and St Barts (Newbury) have been nominated for the Active Secondary School award, while the primary category comprises Shinfield St Mary’s, Willowbank (Woodley) and Wooden Hill (Bracknell).

The winners will be revealed at Reading’s Hilton Hotel on February 10.

  • AS Reading FC are managed by a former Manchester United defender Jaap Stam, perhaps there was some method in the madness that led to a fan chancing a bet on the two clubs being drawn together in the FA Cup.

The odds were 60-1 and so his bold bet of £25 earned him just over £1,500.

  • DESPITE clubs being informed in the summer that he had resigned, Martin Law confirmed to me this week he is still general secretary of the Reading Invitation Challenge Cup.

Amid the confusion, there were also rumours that the competition might have to be suspended for a year. Not so; it is business as usual for the Senior, Junior, Jubilee and Diamond cups although first-round ties have yet to get under way.