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Eden’s athletic award winners

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Iye Ogunkeye and Will Rigby were named Eden’s Grade 12 female and male athletes of the year at the school’s recent athletic awards ceremony.

Other major award winners were: Noah Whyte, Grade 11 male athlete of the year; Hailey Epp, Grade 11 female athlete of the year; Kai Nickel, Grade 10 male athlete of the year; Kate De Vries, Grade 10 female athlete of the year; Levi Bayne, Grade 9 male athlete of the year; and, Adali Cavicchia, Grade 9 female athlete of the year.

Below are the school’s other athletic award winners:

Sports management award: Lauren Vanderwier.

Athletic council service award: Ella Landry,

The Flyer Award: Ashlynn Caverly.

Distinguished Service Award: Bill Markham.

Cross country: Rigby, most improved; Chloe Dilalla, coach’s award; Graham Tomori, MVP.

Girls field hockey: Ella Brens, MVP.

Football: Wes Wiens, MVP.

Golf: Tiffany Kang, MVP.

Junior girls basketball: Cavicchia, MVP.

Senior girls basketball: Madelaine Templeman, MVP.

Junior boys volleyball: Nicholas Tywoniuk, MVP.

Senior boys volleyball: Logan Dueck, MVP.

Tennis: Meena Wong, coach’s award.

Girls hockey: Taylor Floris, MVP.

Boys hockey: Kyle Sanders, MVP.

Boys curling: Cooper Rorison, coach’s award.

Girls swimming: Reese Ankersmit, MVP.

Boys swimming: Rigby, MVP.

Junior girls volleyball: Tessa Vlatkovic, MVP.

Senior girls volleyball: Kiara Van Steekelenburg, MVP.

Junior boys basketball: Rowan Pritchard, most improved.

Senior boys basketball: Kai Schatz.

Wrestling: Charlotte Bowslaugh and Ali Ghasemi-Montazer, MVPs.

Cheerleading: Anne Kim, leadership award.

Badminton: Mason Ritzema, best singles player; Brooke Whyte and Jenessa Hilsden, best doubles team.

Boys baseball: Jacob Doucette, MVP.

Track: Benedict Elue, most improved; Anna Moranm, coach’s award; Ankersmit, MVP.

Rowing: Colin Hughes, oarsman of the year; Dayun Kong, oarswoman of the year.

Spikeball: Carter Thompson, clutch player of the year; Luke Johnson, most valuable spikeballer.

Squash: Yousuf Hue, coach’s award.

Girls rugby: Renee Engel, MVP.

Boys rugby: Liam Birks, most improved.

Girls soccer: Rhlyenn Price, coach’s award.

Boys soccer: Jack Pritchard, MVP.

Ultimate: Kieran Necakov-Walker and Ashton Reeves, MVPs.

Girls slo-pitch: Bella Stradwick, MVP.

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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