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Nanaimo News Bulletin Thursday, January 30, 2014
What a year it was in sports Sport Achievement Awards celebrate city’s champions They prepared, practised, played and performed all year. They achieved. They overachieved. They’re the best. And at the Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards this week, some of them will be distinguished as the best of the best. The ninth annual awards gala will be held Saturday (Feb. 1) at the Coast Bastion Hotel, celebrating top athletes, teams, coaches, officials and sport administrators. The event begins at 6 p.m. and there will be cocktails, dinner, a silent auction and raffle leading up to the awards presentations. Tickets are $65 and may be purchased by calling Marilyn Sullivan at 250-716-6110. For more information about the Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards, please visit www.nanaimosportachievementawards.com.
Aaron Schulze embraces teammates after the the World’s Longest Indoor Hockey Game.
Samira Rusman can swim laps and laps.
Sarah Kedves and Lucas Pallard perform their routine.
This year’s Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards finalists:
Erin Burrett, running; Katelynn Ramage, race walk; Melissa Liew, badminton. Junior Male Athlete of the Year Brandon Parker, football; Josh Burgmann, baseball; Jason Clare, track and field. Junior Female Athlete of the Year Marita DeSchiffart, track and field; Victoria Behie, volleyball; Bernadette Alvarez, karate. Masters Athlete of the Year Samira Rusman, swimming; Jack Gilmour, trap shooting; Bill Hollingshead, track and field. Partners of the Year - Riley Kazanowski and Caleb Harder, beach volleyball; Lucas
Male Team Athlete of the Year Brandon Jones, basketball; Whitman Tomusiak, football; Chae Faickney, football. Female Team Athlete of the Year Sara Simovic, basketball; Jocelyn Jones, basketball; Kalli Gordon, golf. Male Individual Athlete of the Year Graham Spencer, mixed martial arts; Byron Trajan, triathlon; Eli Wyse, martial arts. Female Individual Athlete of the Year -
Congratulations and good luck to all the finalists!
Graham Spencer, MMA champion.
Pallard and Sarah Kedves, figure skating; Justin Mark and Jeff Riemer, adventure racing. High-Performance Coach of the Year Matt Kuzminski, basketball; Matthew Blokker, football; Bill McWhinnie, basketball. Grassroots Coach of the Year - Sean Roden, football; Rob Stevenson, football; Tyler Heisterman, track and field. Team of the Year - Nanaimo Redmen midget football; VIU Mariners men’s basketball; Nanaimo White Rapids Div. 7 girls’ relay swim team. Junior Team of the Year - Dover Bay
Jason Clare gets some serious hang time. senior boys’ cross-country; John Barsby Bulldogs AA varsity football; NDSS Islanders senior AAA girls’ volleyball. Sport Administrator of the Year - Aileen Mutch Faickney, football; Brenda and Phil Levesque, hockey; Jazz Sohal, soccer. Official of the Year - Mike Walker, badminton; Lianne Rear, roller derby; Rick Kitsul, softball. Sports Story of the Year - World’s Longest Indoor Hockey Game; Western Canada Cup hockey tournament; BMO Team of the Week’s Harbour City FC U8 Team France.
Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools Specialty Academies Athletes interested in improving their skills in Hockey, Soccer, or Beach Volleyball should consider a specialty academy. Woodlands Secondary hosts three: • • •
Hockey Canada Skills Academy Pacific Soccer Academy Vancouver Island Beach Academy
Excel in your sport! Register from March 3 until March 14, 2014. More information is available at www.sd68.bc.ca/Education/secacademies.asp.
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