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FISHER, Ryan Scott

DATE OF BIRTH: 7 September 1983, Riverside, California, USA.

BRITISH CAREER: (2002-03) Coventry; (2004) Oxford; (2007) Belle Vue; (2008) Edinburgh; (2009) Edinburgh, Swindon; (2010) Edinburgh; (2011) Coventry.

CLUB HONOURS: Premier Trophy winner: 2008 [Edinburgh]; League Championship winner: 2008, 2010 [both Edinburgh]; Play-Off winner: 2008, 2009 [both Edinburgh].

RIDER LINKS: Son-in-law of Gene Woods (born: 27 March 1958, Long Beach, California, USA).

2011 STARTING AVERAGE: 5.81 (EL).

ADDITIONAL INFO: The uncle of Fisher s wife, Daelyn, is former rider Rick Woods (born: 11 June 1948, Newport Beach, California, USA). In another speedway tie-up, her step-father is Mike Faria (born: 4 March 1957, Richmond, California, USA) who, like Fisher, served Edinburgh with distinction during his time in the UK.

The hugely talented American rider began his British career at Coventry in 2002 and was to spend two terms with the Brandon-based club, before a switch to Oxford in 2004. Following that, he didn’t return to these shores until 2007, when he linked with Belle Vue for what turned into a frustrating spell for both rider and club, being eventually dropped in June and subsequently replaced by Billy Forsberg.

The Californian was offered a lifeline by Premier League Edinburgh in 2008 and he grabbed it with both hands to play a leading role in the Monarchs League Championship and Premier Trophy double success. His tenacious and energetic brand of racing guaranteed Fish a return to Edinburgh in 2009, when he also joined Swindon as a doubling-up rider alongside Cory Gathercole and, in the latter part of the campaign, Mark Lemon.

Such was his form with the Robins that he did consider a switch back into the top-flight for 2010; however, in November, the Scottish outfit was delighted to announce that the remarkable, up and at’em American, who possesses the ultimate in determination, had agreed terms for a third successive season in their distinctive colours.

He was to power the Monarchs to their second League Championship success in three years, courtesy of an average that hovered around 10 points per match throughout the entire campaign. Indeed, it was his race win in heat thirteen of EdinburgHs away match at Stoke on 4 September that clinched the league title.

Although Edinburgh finally ran out of steam, losing in the Play-Off semi-final to Sheffield and the Knock-Out Cup final to Newcastle, Fisher still managed to end the season at the pinnacle of the entire Premier League’s statistical run-down, marginally ahead of the Diamonds’ top gun Kenni Larsen, who averaged exactly 10.00; the Californian’s final figure being 10.01, courtesy of 495 points from forty-three official matches.

Fisher was rightly described as one of the greatest-ever Monarchs in his 3-season spell with the club, but had expressed his wish to go Elite League. ‘Doubling-up’ remained a possibility, but with no Elite berth organised as the close season wore on, the club decided that they needed to go in a different direction and when they announced the signing of Craig Cook on 17 December, it meant the American wouldn’t be back with them in 2011.

It looked certain then that Fisher would return to his parent club, Coventry, but it appeared the Bees’ wouldn’t come to the starting tapes following a winter-long dispute with the BSPA. As such, the American was initially left without a club after staying loyal to the Brandon-based outfit and turning down a team place at Birmingham.

He still made the journey over to the UK in the hope of landing a place somewhere and certainly made a case for himself by appearing in Newport’s season-opening Prince Of Wales Trophy on 19 March, when he joint top-scored with 12 points prior to winning the final ahead of Niels-Kristain Iversen, Leigh Lanham and Daniel Nermark. Thankfully, matters were subsequently resolved between Coventry and the BSPA, with Fisher able to take his place in their line-up.

The American was to average around 6.5 points a match over the first half of the Elite League campaign and, on 26 June, he again showed a liking for the Newport circuit by taking victory in the Welsh Open Championship, defeating the previously unbeaten Kevin Doolan, plus Ilya Bondarenko and Sam Masters in the all-important final.

Fisher took over as the Bees’ skipper in August, following an SCB decision to charge Edward Kennett with non-compliance of the 2011 Speedway Regulations and suspended him for a period of 7 days after his silencer was found to have been tampered with and therefore used illegally in an away match at Lakeside.

FIM Speedway World Cup Record:
SWC tournaments: 2
Events: 3 – 7th on USA’s list; 86th on SWC all-time list
Points: 20 – 7th on USA’s list; 78th on SWC all-time list
Finals: 0
Gold medals: 0