Stocker, Daley among award winners named by N.B. group
Published Tuesday November 17th, 2009
Longtime track official Rick Stocker of Fredericton will be honoured as the Athletics New Brunswick Official of the Year at the annual 2009 Awards Gala, to be held Saturday, Nov. 28 in Oromocto.
Kelsey Daley of Fredericton will also be honoured as the 2008 female athlete of the year in cross country. Daley, a fourth year student at Saint Mary's University, where she stars with the Huskies women's basketball team, is officially affiliated with a Halifax track club, but she was born and raised in Fredericton. Daley is also a finalist for the senior female athlete of the year, up against Alison Howatt of the Fredericton Legion Track Club, the club which Daley was affiliated for years before moving to Halifax.
Athletics New Brunswick also announced finalists for several other awards, with winners to be announced at the gala, and the local clubs, the Fredericton Fast Tracks, the Motley Crew of Oromocto, and the Fredericton Legion Track Club, are among the finalists in several categories.
Three Fredericton athletes are among the finalists in the bantam female athlete of the year, for instance.
Leah MacAuley and clubmate MacKenzie Amos of the Fast Tracks and Vivian Sheehan of the Fredericton Legion Track Club are up against Abbigail Melanson of the South East Athletics of Moncton.
Andrew LeBlanc of the Fredericton Fast Tracks is the only local competitor in the competition for bantam male athlete of the year, up against three members of the Saint John Track Club, Anthony Cormier, Joshua Shanks and Ben Fowler.
Tommy McGinn of the Fredericton Fast Tracks is one of three candidates for midget aged male athlete of year, against Nick MacMackin of the Saint John Track Club and Alex Guest of Carleton-York Athletics. Kalie Smith of the Fast Tracks, Shannon Morris of the Saint John Track Club and Sarah Taplin, who is not affiliated, are the finalists for midget female athlete of the year.
The juvenile male athlete of the year will be hotly contested among five candidates, including Adam Gaudes of the Fast Tracks and Mike Jacobs of the Motley Crew. Mitch Quigg of the Saint John Track Club, Alex Doucette of Chaleur and Simon Audet of Restigouche Athletics, are the others.
The juvenile female athlete of the year is one of the few categories without a Fredericton area representative: Lindsay Gauvin of Chaleur, Grace Annear of the Saint John Track Club, and Naomie Maltais of Restigouche are the finalists.
Jason Bouchard of the Fredericton Legion Track Club will have to beat out a pair of Saint Johners, Caleb Jones and Barry Britt, if he is to be named the junior male athlete of the year. Sarah McMullin of the Fredericton Legion Track Club will take on Genevieve Lalonde of 02 of the Moncton region, and Nadine Frost of the Speed River Track Club, for junior female athlete of the year honours.
Fredericton doesn't have a finalist in the senior male athlete of the year category: it's between Adam Kellar of the Windsor Lancers, Cory MacIntosh of Chaleur or Jean-Marc Doiron of 02.
Britt of Saint John or Ryan Cassidy of 02 will come away with the junior male athlete of the year in the cross country category, while the senior citation in cross country will go to either Joel Bourgeois of 02 or his clubmate Adam Stacey. Lynette Manueel of the Motley Crew or Genevieve Lalonde of 02 will be the junior female athlete of the year in cross country.
Four coaches are nominated for coach of the year, two of them local: Greg Allan of the Fredericton Fast Tracks and Yvan Pelletier of the Fredericton Legion Track Club, Jules Comeau of the South East Athletics and Jennifer Butler of Chaleur are the others. Germain Landry of the Fredericton Legion Track Club, Bill MacMackin of the Saint John Club, or Sandy Leland will be recognized as the volunteer of the year.
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