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Simply the best

The year of the Douglas athlete

 

by Jonathan D. Chapman

Douglas College has had quite an
eventful year. There were a number
of medal finishes nationally and
provincially. And on Wednesday,
March 26, athletes, coaches and
supporters gathered to honour the
best in Douglas College athletics.

Mike Collins, men’s rugby coach,
led off a splendid evening as
master of ceremonies. Starting off
with his set of rules and hand
signals, Gollins tried to make sure
nobody would be rude during the
presentations to be held after the

dinner.

Before dinner every team had to
tell a joke to earn a place in the food
line up. Ken Kilpatrick represented
men’s volleyball with his all too
rusty popeye joke. Vesna Rukavina
gave her buck fifty’s worth for the
women’s volleyball team. But the
winner was the women’s basketball
team, who pulled out their bag of
tricks. And so dinner was served.

The seafood, veggie, or meat
lasagne was served alongside a
slice of garlic bread and a choice
between chef's salad or make-it-
yourself caesar salad. (Mmm.
Messy.) It was all quite delicious.

After dinner was over, it was
time to tear off the feedbags and
start the presentations. Awards for
wheelchair basketball led off.
Coach Tim Frick gave his speech
concerning his goal to get more
universities and colleges in BC to
form teams. (Frick administers a
couple of teams out of Douglas.)
For the Royals, Terry Cole won
Outstanding Post Player and Don
Turner won Outstanding Guard.
For the other Douglas team Craig
Robson won the Outstanding
Rookie and youngster Ross
MacDonald won the Outstanding
Guard award. It was a good year,
with both teams finishing top in
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Women’s soccer had a long list of
award winners as coach Mike
Bernardis proudly administered the
awards to the ladies. The best
forward was Lynsey Burkinshaw
and the best midfielder was Andrea
Kazuta. Best left defender was Erica
Mendez and the best right defender
was Kristy Dallas. The hard-
working Paola Artuso won the top
scorer’s award. The much deserv-
ing Lauren Wood came out with
MVP and a smile from ear to ear.

Wrestling coach Dave McKay
gave out only two awards, out-
standing wrestler for the men and
for the women. Double national
bronze medalist Zach Mcleod won
the award for the men. And for the
women Lindsay Belisle took home
the trophy as a national gold
medalist. Coach McKay based his
very tough decision on three
things; GPA, performance and
commitment to the team and
themselves.

Anne-Marie Fearn came up to
present the field hockey awards.
The field hockey team is in their
second season at Douglas and was
represented for the first time at the
banquet. Rookie of the year was
Kristina Paech and the Most
Improved Player (MIP) went to Jen
Chambers. But the all important
MVP went to Bree Riddell. The
ladies have a playoff game on the
sixth of April at 10:30 am at
Burnaby Lake.

Men’s basketball had a good
year, though they fell a little short
in the provincials. Dave Munro was
proud of his men as he had seven
award winners. The Most Im-
proved Player award went to Blair
Chan Kent and the Most Inspira-
tional Player was Bijan Jiany. The
defensive player of the year was
Carl Lewis and the offensive player
of the year was high scoring Lee
Craven. There were two rookies of
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Shannon. Alex Zabori,
who displayed
excellent play all over
the court, won best all
around player.

Dave Dalcanale was
next up to present his
four awards to the
women’s volleyball
team. The team came
second in the province
when they weren’t
even expected to have
a .500 season. Rookie
of the year went to
middle Coralie
Hiemstra. Ashley
Cooper came away
with two awards as
she won MIP and a student athlete
award for a solid GPA and equally
solid play. Powerhouse Vesna
Rukavina won the MVP. She could
probably have a good career as
either a volleyball player or a
comedian.

In badminton the most dedicated
player was given to Nan San Niu.
Rookie of the year went to Jennifer
Wong and MVP went to Julia Chen.
Coach Peter Chen remarked that he
was very proud of his team and
their national victories.

Women’s rugby had an excellent
team, but lost their second place
finish because of a team that wasn’t
able to field enough players. Due to
politics Dave Dando and his team
ended up in fifth spot heading into
the playoffs. The MIP went to Chris
McFarlane and the best back went
to Christy Walsh. There were two
awards for best forward, going to
Shannon Jette and Lisa McLeod.
There were also two rookies of the
year, Nikki Pattison and Natalie
Rivard. The MVP went to Kelly
McCallum.

Mike Bernardis was back up at
the podium to present to the men’s
soccer team. The best left defender
went to Ken Laity and the best
right defender went to Zsolt
Tofalvy. The best defender went to
Mandeep Dulai and the much
deserving Dave Piket won MVP.

In golf, there was only one name

Badminton people, awards in hand.

that came out of coach Gert van
Niekert’s mouth and that was Jarad
Boddy for having the best aggre-
gate score overall for Douglas.

For women’s basketball, coach
Alison Gill awarded six players.
MIP was Roselyn Kraft. Rookie of
the year went to tough competitor
Stacy Reykdal. The hustle award
went to the hard-working Darcy
Pickard»Leanne Trotter won the
best defensive player award. But to
round it all off there were two
winners for the MVP, Andrea
Dufva and Jasmine Foreman.

When Mike Collins was intro-
duced, he gave his awards within
his six minute limit. There were
two rookie sensations that won the
rookie of the year and they were
big, bad Eric Kluth and Mark
Girotto. The most versatile player
award went to Travis Irvine, and
Damien Lane won the MIP award.
The best back went to Brendan
Leong. There were two best
forwards; Colin Tupin and Mike
Lewthwaite.

The last team, but certainly not
the least was Brian Newman’s
men’s volleyball team. The most
valuable passer was Ken
Kliendinst, and Ken Kilpatrick won

the roofing award for good defense.

The MIP award went to Jody
White.

After the team awards were
doled out, it was on to the indi-

’ year. She is a third year athlete, and

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
          
    
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
   
  
    
   
 
 
  
  
  
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
 
 

vidual awards. Cam Secret of the
men’s volleyball team won male
athlete of the year. Secret gives back
to the sport by coaching a junior
high team and putting on volley-
ball clinics. Secret is a third year
athlete and team captain for the
men’s volleyball team with com-
bined league statistics of 76 kills
and 7 aces. Secret also won the
second team BCCAA All-star and
first team CCAA All-star. With all
those credentials Cam Secret was a
sure win.

Julia Chen of the badminton
team won female athlete of the

she won gold medals in the
BCCAA and CCAA. She was
ranked number one in Canada for
badminton. Congratulations to
Julia Chen on her excellent accom-
plishments.

The last award of the evening
was coach of the year award, which
went to Brian Newman, head coach
of the men’s volleyball team.
Newman not only had success, but
also had very good conduct on and
off the court with his team, the fans
and the officials.

Thus, the evening drew toa
close. But with the end of this
season the sports department is
already psyching up for next year,
and national volleyball gold.
(Right, Brian?) @&

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