Long standing Brighton & Hove HC member Alan Grey has been nominated for a Lifetime Achievement award at the England Hockey Awards in Leicester on May 18.

Alan's association with BHHC goes back 55 years. A popular and familiar figure to many, whether helping out with the juniors, supporting the club's XIs from the sidelines at Blatchington or chatting hockey and umpiring in the bar, his is a worthy and deserved nomination.

"Though partly because of long service to BHHC it is more to do with my many other activities in hockey – coaching, team management of school, club and county sides especially at junior level," he says. "Then concentrating on the coaching and assessing of umpires, again particularly at junior level."

There are two other nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award - Glyn Thomas and Norman Hughes.

Thomas helped start the Welsh Masters teams and played for Old Wulfrunians - of whom he is a life member and former chairman - in the Midlands and helped found Newport HC in Shropshire a decade ago, still turning out regularly for them in his 80s in goal.

Hughes won Olympic bronze with the Great Britain team in Los Angeles in 1984 and silver in the World Cup with England two years later as a tenacious midfield player. He has had a 50-year association with Wakefield HC as player and coach.

BHHC members would like to congratulate Alan on his shortlisting for the award and wish him well on May 18.