Club News
Barry Craighead
Barry Craighead is one of the best known, best liked and most respected figures in Scottish athletics. Known to most of today’s athletes as a starter, he has in his career been a top class cyclist, a runner with Edinburgh AC, an administrator, and an official operating to the highest international standard.
Ian Clifton
Ian Clifton was one of the most well-known officials in Scotland. He joined Edinburgh Southern Harriers in 1947 and became their Youth champion in season 1949-50. 1949 was a good year for Ian. He won the Edinburgh Battalion of the Boys Brigade Track and Field Championship, the Battalion Cross-Country Championship and second in the East District Under 17 Cross-Country championship.
Bill Walker
Bill Walker is known throughout the UK as a top class coach: a quiet and friendly man, a former athlete and committee man, he is relentless in his pursuit of success (however you define it) as a coach on behalf of his athletes.
George Sinclair
George Sinclair is one of the best coaches in the country. He has worked with several of the very best athletes the country has produced. As an announcer, his voice has been heard and listened closely to by almost everyone in Scottish athletics.
Alex MacEwen
I have no idea how he supports so many athletes with his listening ear and advice. I’m not an expert in coaching but I suspect he exhibits what textbooks and seminars try to bottle and explain – a combination of experience, expertise and genuine interest in others.
Eric Fisher
A high quality athlete who is now serving his club as a coach and serving on an area league committee plus his work with the Boys Brigade, Eric Fisher is about the best role model for a club athlete as you can find and his club and athletes are lucky to have him.
Ian Cunningham
Ian trained at Saughton as a runner and as a level 1 coach he assisted Gordon Steele at Saughton and at the old Dunfermline College grass training fields over at Cramond. They managed a very good squad up to Commonwealth Games standard.