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Port Colborne High’s athletic award winners

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Pictured from left to right are Port Colborne High School’s athletic award winners: Jake Richard, Ben Brozovic, Amelia Towne, Aidan Hawkins, Devon Doolittle, Deanna Donnelly, Victoria Fraser , Reaghan Mitchell  and Taryn Snider.

Victoria Fraser and Amelia Townes were named Port Colborne High School’s senior and junior female athletes of the year at the school’s recent awards ceremony.

Devon Doolittle and Aidan Hawkins were named the senior and junior male athletes of the year.

Sportsperson of the year awards were given to Ben Brozovic (junior male), Taryn Snider, (junior female), Jake Richard (senior male) and Reaghan Mitchell (senior male).

Earning the school’s Blue Bear Award was Deanna Donnelly.

Below are the rest of Port Colborne’s athletic award winners:

Golf: Aidan Hawkins, MVP.

Junior boys volleyball: Hawkins, MVP; Colton Weaver, coaches award.

Senior boys volleyball: Devon Doolittle, most improved; Jake Richard, coaches award.

Junior girls basketball: Maddison Coleman, MVP.

Senior girls basketball: Victoria Fraser and Jordyn Goins, coaches awards.

Junior girls volleyball: Coleman, Amelia Townes and Meadow McCulligh, coaches awards.

Senior girls volleyball: Victoria Fraser, MVP; Caitlin Campbell, coaches award.

Junior boys basketball: Josh Bennett, most improved; Geoff Jensen, coaches award.

Senior boys basketball: Riley Lannan, most improved; Mark Youngblut, coaches award.

Boys hockey: Lannan, MVP: Owen Miller, coaches award.

Girls hockey: Carly Ruscica, MVP; Laura Amon, most improved.

Badminton: Jacobi Oskam. MVP; Jen Kozelj, coaches award.

Girls soccer: Taryn Snider and Goins, MVP: Oskam, coaches award.

Boys soccer: Dean Miller and Taylor Desmarais, MVPs.

Boys softball: Seth Tonnelli. MVP; Bryce Ruscica, coaches award.

Girls slo-pitch: Hailey McCulligh, MVP.

Ultimate frisbee: Owen Miller and Ashley Campbell, MVPs.

Track and field: Bruce Bryan and Coleman, MVPs; Jake Richard and Oskam, coaches awards.

Bernie Puchalski, a graduate of Brock University and Niagara College, worked in journalism in Niagara for more than 27 years before taking a voluntary buyout from The Standard at the end of 2016. He started his career as a news reporter for the Niagara Falls Review before switching to sports reporting. He was a sports reporter and sports editor at the Niagara Falls Review before joining the Standard's sports department in 1996. He was named the Standard's sports editor in 2000 and became the regional sports editor, in charge of the Niagara Falls Review, Welland Tribune and Standard, in 2015, a position he held until he left the company. During his time in newspapers, he was a multiple winner and finalist for numerous Ontario and Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for sports reporting, spot news reporting and humour writing. He was a member of the Standard Boys Basketball Tournament committee and co-chair of the Standard Girls Basketball Tournament, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for bursaries presented to participants in the tournament. He also served on countless local sports committees both in Niagara Falls and St. Catharines.

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