Manchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford has been made an MBE for services to vulnerable children in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.
The 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list was due to be published in June, but was pushed back to enable nominations for people playing crucial roles during the first months of the crisis.
Rashford, 22, successfully lobbied the Government into a U-turn over its free school meals policy during lockdown, ensuring children in need would receive meals across the summer.
Brock-Doyle worked across the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as well as the inaugural Invictus Games.
She told PA: “There are huge teams which deliver everything, so it is not an individual. Nobody does this in isolation.
“It is important that it is a recognition shared by the whole team and you are kind of taking an honour for the huge teams which sit behind the work we do. Hopefully everyone can feel that they can share in that.”
Former Scottish Football Association president Alan McRae is awarded an OBE for services to grassroots and professional football, Table Tennis England chief executive Sara Jane Sutcliffe and retired Northern Irish World Cup referee Alan Snodd receive MBEs.
Stevenage chairman Phil Wallace has been honoured with a British Empire Medal for services to football and the community in Hertfordshire.
