LUSS boxer Hannah Rankin has been nominated for a top sporting award chosen by the public – but you only have two days left to cast your vote.

The former Hermitage Academy pupil is up for the UWS Sportswoman of the Year accolade at the Scottish Women In Sport (SWIS) awards for 2018.

Rankin is one of six top athletes in the running for the prize – and her fate lies in the hands of the public, who have until this Monday, October 22, to cast their votes in an online poll at swisawards.co.uk/vote.php.

The award will be presented in Glasgow on November 9 – but before then, Rankin will be back in competitive boxing action for the first time since her fight against the reigning WBC super-middleweight champion Alicia Napoleon in New York in August.

She will line up against American Lisa Garland at the York Hall in London on November 3.

Speaking on the Southpaw Jab YouTube channel about the nomination, she said: “I’m really proud. It’s a great bit of news – it would be amazing to win.”

The other nominees are British, European and World Championship medal winning track athlete Laura Muir, Commonwealth Games bowls silver medallist Caroline Brown, Grace Reid, who won Scotland’s first Commonwealth diving gold for 60 years in the Gold Coast Games in the spring, world and Commonwealth champion shooter Seonaid McIntosh, and multiple gold medal winning cyclist Katie Archibald.

Later in her Team Southpaw interview, which was filmed at York Hall during Scot Lee McGregor’s Commonwealth bantamweight win at the Bethnal Green venue at the weekend, Rankin said she was delighted to be returning to action against Garland at the Bethnal Green venue, which she regards as a second home.

“She’s ranked at 15 by the WBC,” she continued, “so it’s going to be a good fight for me and I’m looking forward to putting on a show.

“It [the York Hall] is such an amazing venue – you can see everything and you feel like you’re really involved, and as a boxer that kind of atmosphere is amazing to play off.

“I love boxing at home in Scotland because the crowds there are great too, but when I’m living in London this is home.”

* Check out Southpaw Jab’s full interview with Hannah at bit.ly/2IZcvrC or search YouTube for ‘Southpaw Jab’.