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Cote des Neiges
Sports Awards
Banquet
Senior Lynx
Named Outstanding Borough
Team
performing at a
Provincial,
National, or International Level
Debbie Praw
- Special Award -
Recognized for Outstanding
Effort
For the past 10 years Debbie Praw,
our Special Projects Coordinator, has written the citations
submitted to the Cote des Neiges Sports Awards selection
committee. Last night, Claudine Perreault, one of the directors
of Sports and Leisure for CDN-NDG presented Debbie Praw with an
award recognizing her efforts over the past 10 years. Claudine
mentioned that of all the citations written in the past 10
years, Debbie's are by far the most elaborate and detailed.
Coaches & Volunteer
Banquet
Award Winners & Summary
NDG Minor Baseball held it's annual
Coaches and Volunteers Banquet on Wednesday September 5th. The
event was attended by about forty coaches and volunteers as well
as local politicians, borough mayor Michael Applebaum and city
councillor Warren Allmand.
Ken Quinn, our President, acted as
host for the awards ceremony portion of the evening and was
assisted by Vice President James Rankine and Special Projects
Co-ordinator Debbie Praw. Below are this years winners of the
following NDG Minor Baseball awards:
Volunteer of the Year
Greg Pernell
Photo (L to R): Greg Pernell, James
Rankine,
Ken Quinn, & Mayor Michael Applebaum
Below is an excerpt of the speech
given by previous Volunteer of the Year award winner, James Rankine,
with regards to Greg's contributions to the league.
"It was a real pleasure to give this
award to Greg because he truly represents the values of Little
League. Greg is the guy no one really sees but without his
efforts the organisation would be quick to miss his presence.
When it rains Greg is one of first ones prepared to go on out
and get the fields ready. During all of our summer tournaments,
Greg is one of the first ones their in the morning to help set
things up and at night when things have to be taken down he's
one of the last ones to leave. Greg scores games and umpires in
a moments notice and helps out full time with the Senior Lynx
team as it's equipment manager."
Competitive Coach of
the Year
The Senior Lynx
Coaching Staff
Carey Ashton,
David Goldberg,
Ernie D'Alessandro
Paul Stephenson, & Jan Sauvé-Frankel
Photo (L to R):
Paul Stephenson, Jan Sauvé-Frankel,
Carey Ashton,
David Goldberg, Ernie D'Alessandro,
& Terry Doucet
This is the third time Carey Ashton
has won this award and a second time for David Goldberg and Jan
Sauvé-Frankel. James Rankine said, " that the Senior Lynx are
truly an incredible coaching staff. It's true that the team they
coached won the Provincials and represented Quebec well at the
Nationals but this staff does way much more. All you have to do
is go on out and watch one of their games to see what I'm
talking about. The warm-up they run is like watching a well
oiled machine. It's entertaining and inspiring. Then there's the
players themselves. I've watched many games and I've talked to
many people about this team and all anyone has to say about
these players is that they are polite, gracious, and perfect
gentleman on and off the field. In fact we received a letter
from the Senior Canadian Nationals tournament director Roy
Bergerman stating that billeting parents and tournament
organizers were all very impressed by how the Senior Lynx
players comported themselves while in British Columbia."
It's all these elements put together
that make the NDG Senior Lynx NDG's competitive coaching staff,
our Competitive Coaching Staff of the Year.
House League Coach of
the Year
Chris Patterson
Chris Patterson was a very busy
coach this year as he was involved with three teams. With the
minor division missing a coach for one of its' teams, Chris was
asked if he could help out and take on a team. Chris never
hesitated as he stepped up and took on the head coaching duties
of the Minor Orioles. What was so marvellous about Chris taking
on a minor team was that he didn't even have a child on the team
as his son plays T-Ball.
Chris also was active as an
assistant coach for the T-Ball Reds and the Provincial Champions
the T-Ball Lions.
Lionel Geller Award of
Excellence
Terry Doucet
Photo (L to R): Terry Doucet &
Lionel Geller
Terry Doucet has become NDG Minor
Baseball's first recipient of the Lionel Geller Award of
Excellence. It's an award given to those who have made an
outstanding contribution to the league over many years.
Terry has been involved with NDG
Minor baseball for over 15 years as as both a coach and as a
member of the executive. Terry was the Volunteer of the Year in
2002 and was co-president of the league in 2005.
For the past seven years Terry has
led a pitching clinic throughout the winter months and during
the summer months has been available to all who wish to have
private pitching lessons. On his own, this past summer Terry
started a Sunday baseball clinic which turned out to be
extremely popular.
Besides Lionel Geller, I can't think
of another person who has made such an immeasurable impact on
the league and our kids over the past fifteen years. It is for
these reasons that Terry Doucet has been fittingly chosen as NDG
Minor Baseball's first recipient of the Lionel Geller Award.
Presidents
Award
The President's Award is given out
to those volunteers who the President feels has gone the extra
mile in their service to the league. Listed below are all those
individuals who league President Ken Quinn wishes to recognize
for their extra-ordinary efforts:
David Desmond & Irene
Kosik
Dr. Karen Kost
Mary Catherine Carmel
Shabira Lalani
Patrick Raftus
Kelli Poulin
Jill Wyatt
Judith Litvack
Celine Massy
Lionel Geller
Award of Excellence
Ceremony
Lionel Geller was presented with the
inaugural Lionel Geller Award of Excellence. This award,
named after NDG's most cherished and respected of
volunteers, will be given to those who are deemed by the
board to be individuals who have made an extraordinary
contribution to the league over many years.
Below is the speech that was
given by NDG Minor Baseball President, Ken Quinn.
Lionel Geller Award
Ceremony Speech
Other
Quebec Provincial
Tournaments
Senior Provincials
Junior Provincials
Major Provincials
Minor
Provincials
T-Ball
Provincials
Photos from the
Provincials
Canadian
Nationals
Senior Nationals - Whalley BC
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