Hall of Fame

Bill Anderson is one of the greatest and best-known Highland Games champions in modern times. His competitive career spanned an amazing 32 years, from 1956 until 1988, when he retired from competition at the age of 51.

Dan has accumulated numerous top throws, in multiple events, across four age groups. Known for his willingness to assist any athlete who asks, with any aspect of their throws, Dan is an excellent technical thrower and student of the games.

Winning 5 times in 3 age classes, his name can be found in numerous places on the SMAI list of top throws, and he holds 2 world records in the 70+ group as of this writing. He competed in local games from 1998 until 2008.

In the early 1980’s, Greg initiated decathlon-style scoring, which permitted Masters athletes of different age groups to compete with one another on a leveled playing field-- and provided a boost to the number of Masters athletes competing.

John won the U.S. Caber Toss Championships in 1975, and the McVitties Trophy as Best Athlete. He finally began competing as a Master’s athlete in 1994—at the age of 57. He still has a number of top age-group throws on SMAI’s Records page.

As a weightlifter turned Highland Games Champion, Kent Durso began his throwing career at the age of 51, long after a distinguished collegiate Olympic weightlifting career at the University of Notre Dame. He is a four-time Masters Champion

Bill went to the New Hampshire Highland Games at Loon Mountain as a spectator in 1987, and began competing in 1989 at the age of 48. With no Masters division in local games at the time, Bill competed as an amateur, going undefeated in 1991.

Bill Butler was not only a superb Highland Games athlete, he played a leading role in Scottish athletics for more than a decade, co-founding Scottish Masters Athletics International, serving other organizations, & promoting Scottish culture

Champion and leader, Angus Billy Scruggs, will always be the rock and the cornerstone of Scottish Masters Athletics. Co-founder along with Dan DeWalt and Bill Butler, MWC was brought to fruition through years of care, planning, and work.

As a lifetime athlete, having a strength and throwing background, Sue was approached about throwing in the highland games. She began competing annually at the Indiana Highland Games and Sue became a Highland Games Champion At age 43.

No one has won more Masters World Championships than Bill, and he has more in the tank. He has multiple world records in multiple age groups, as well as multiple Top 10 all-time marks over multiple age groups.

Within 4 years of her first games throw, in 2006, Denise became a Masters World Champion. She repeated in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, winning a stunning 6 consecutive world championships while dominating her class.

As a professional events manager and games atheltic director, Gerry's manifold contributions to the sport, to Masters throwing, and to SMAI in particular, have earned Gerry induction as the first non-athlete in the SMAI Hall of Fame.

Ian has won numerous titles in both: a British (2001), Canadian (2003), two US (2004, 2012) and a World Title (2005, in Spain) in the Weight Pentathlon, to go with his two his two world titles in Denver (2010) and Albuquerque (2013)

Terri James started competing in Highland Games in 1999 after winning a national powerlifting title. After 4 years and introducing women's classes to many games, she attained a #1 ranking in the open women's class

Wayne is a three-time Masters World Champion, and holds a special distinction of having won it twice in Scotland in 2009 and 2014, as well as in St. Louis in 2017. Wayne is one of the true gentlemen of our sport.

Between 2009 and 2011, he won successively in Scotland, the U.S and Canada. Like others with a Track and Field background, Al early mastered stones and hammers, and soon everything else—especially WOB and sheaf.

Mark owns at least one current world record, and appears a number of times in the Top Ten scores over the years in individual events. His top event is the caber where he is a master with few equals, but he truly has no weak events.

A three-times Masters World Champion,he started out with sports in the Track and Field aera, as thrower with the Highland Games he began his career in 2013, he is the first German entering the Hall of Fame.