Thank you once again to everybody who came out to Awards Night, and especially those who were there the entire time. Hope you enjoyed yourself and found the night a memorable one.
So some thoughts from Awards Night in no particular order:
-Who wins the awards and who votes on these awards?
All boys coaches are eligible to vote for awards for boys and all girls coaches are eligible to vote for awards for girls.
First, the coaches nominate as many names as possible and the top three, sometimes four, are placed onto the official ballot.
That is where the coaches rank the choices from 1-3, and whoever has the most points gets the award.
The only award that is chosen by me is the Lady Byng and Coach of the Year awards. Otherwise, my vote counts just as much or as little as everybody else's.
-Winners
Congratulations to all the winners on the night.
Kaela had a remarkable season and was the hands down choice for the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year award.
As was Jonathan who was the best player of all the boys this season, not many people will be able to dispute either one of those victories.
The other awards however were a lot closer in voting, but everybody who won the award was a deserving winner.
Michael, who took home Rookie of the Year for the boys really opened a lot of eyes. It also helped his team was (7-1).
Most Improved for the boys was a toss up because all three were a lot better than they were last year or at the beginning of the year. The votes were extremely close and it went to Pablo.
The girls most improved award was a little more lopsided, with Jamie getting the bulk of the votes. I believe she was the team's leading scorer this season on a team where scoring was really balanced.
Hustle player was a tight race, all three girls were deserving, but Kelly's energy she brought every time she went out there and perhaps her big personality contributed to her getting the award.
Lady Byngs were not that tough to choose. Brett/Garrick has played basketball since 4th grade and wanted to play soccer and baseball as well. Unfortunately, things did not work out and he was unable to play something besides basketball.
Garrick has always been very kind and helpful whenever I asked for help and the little things added up to me, so I felt he was a deserving recipient of this distinction.
Lili won the award by simply joining the team. She expressed interest for years but because of a lot of external circumstances was unable to do so until this year. She was the only girl in her class to play basketball and she tried as hard as anyone could. Therefore, she was more than worthy of the Lady Byng.
SHEM'S CORNER
Daniel, Hunter and Isabella. Should be interesting to see who gets it. All of them bring a different dynamic to the corner, especially Isabella since she could become the first girl to take the corner.
We'll see in a few months who ends up taking the reigns.
That's all for now, we'll be back this week with a story of a class of 2011 graduate who just won gold.
See ya pals.
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