Softball Canada 2015 Award Winners

While the following are getting recognized for what they have accomplished on the diamond, there were several behind the scenes that share this recognition of achievement.

Recently Chad and I hosted President of Baseball Canada, Ladner’s Ray Carter on the “Locker Room” on Delta TV for an interview where he shared some insight about the sport of baseball and what the future holds for Canada and the World.

Softball Canada Hall of Fame and Awards Banquet will take place November 14th in Winnipeg and the selection is nothing short of spectacular.

The Banquet will be held in conjunction with the Softball Canada Congress and Annual General Meeting, which will take place from November 12-14.

As previously announced, Bruce Bierman (Official, Ontario), Roy and Evelyne Holenski (Builders, Manitoba), Sandy (Newsham) Maskiw (Athlete, Manitoba), the 1994-1996 Smitty’s Midget Girls’ Team (Team, Manitoba) and the 1993-1997 Smitty’s Senior Women’s Team (Team, Manitoba) will be inducted into the Softball Canada Hall of Fame during this Banquet.

In addition the following are also recognized for various awards.

Home Run Sports Coach of the Year award will be presented to David Muswaggon from Cross Lake, Manitoba.

Sherwood Park’s Terry Richter has been selected as the recipient of the Home Run Sports Umpire of the Year award.

The Rose Hodgson Volunteer of the Year award will be presented to Valerie Pelleck from Winnipeg.

This year’s recipients of the Claude Deschamps Memorial Fund are Natalie Wideman (Mississauga) and Owen Sound’s Matthew Wardrop.

The Ethel Boyce Memorial Award will be awarded to Ladner’s Olivia Priestlay and Greg Hammell from New Hamburg.

Note:

Olivia is a member of the White Rock Renegades 97 team and has competed in seven (7) Provincial Championships and four Canadian Championships.

In 2013, she helped the Renegades to Gold at the Provincial Championship only to be followed by a second Gold medal at the U16 Girl’s Canadian Championship.

Here she was named to the tournament All-Star Team and took home the Top Batter award and for the record, this past season, she was a member of Team BC.

Congrats to everyone from sportswave on all they have achieved to date and no doubt we will hear more from them in the future.

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