As basketball development officers for East Lothian Council, he went on to fund the East Lothian Peregrines who the Club would enjoy a fierce but friendly rivalry for many years and continue to develop the sport within the wider area.
He was a prodigious talent in his youth, representing Scotland at under-19 level aged just 15 and he would become one of the first Scots to make cross the Atlantic to play in the States. His playing career was curtailed by a serious knee injury in 1985 but he went on to become a hugely admired coach and proponent of wheelchair basketball, also helping to found Lothian Phoenix Wheelchair Basketball Club. He went on to be part of the Great Britain coaching staff at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
Sadly, Stevie passed away aged 44 in May 2009 at his Portobello home.
