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DC’s Thornton named province’s 2019/2020 speedskating coach of the year dILLON GIANCOLA Sports Writer
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For 32 years, Meredith Thornton has been passionate about speed skating. She has been a constant presence on the Dawson Creek Speed Skating Club coaching staff. It’s such a big and long-running part of her life that she couldn’t imagine not coaching, so it was quite the surprise when B.C. Speed Skating named her the 2019-20 Coach of the Year. “I’m really pleased. I’ve always been in the background, hanging out and helping to coach the younger kids, so I never expected to receive this award,” Thornton says. “Usually it goes to someone that has coached a lot of senior skaters or won countless medals at the national level, but it’s nice that my cumulative effort has been acknowledged, and that Dawson Creek is recognized too.” Thornton has had lots of positions with the Dawson Creek club, at times the head coach, sometimes coaching all age groups and other times focussing on the younger skaters. But she’s always been involved. “I’ve coached beginners to adults, and it’s fun when you coach a whole family that starts at once, or see generations of a family take up the sport over time,” says Thornton. Growing up in Dawson Creek, Thornton fell in love with the sport because it was family oriented, and enjoys the congenial atmosphere of catching up with people a couple times a year at different events. Continued on page A8
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