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Port Colborne’s athletic award winners

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Avaia Echlin and Logan Dickie were named Port Colborne High School senior female and male athletes of the year at the school’s recent athletic awards ceremony.

Junior female and male athletes of the year were Madison Lee and Myles Draper.

Winning sportsperson of the year awards were: William Laur, junior male; Ethan denhollander, senior male; Aurora Kadwell, junior female; and, Mikayla Lacey, senior female.

Below are the rest of the school’s athletic award winners:

Golf: Lacey, MVP; Brianna Buchanan, coach’s award.

Cross country: Aydan Smith; Madison Lee, coach’s award.

Junior boys volleyball: Draper, MVP; Lachlan Dawn, coach’s award.

Senior boys volleyball: Dylan Gagnon, MVP; Alex McNay, coach’s award.

Girls basketball: Cadence Seredine, MVP; Kate Kolbinson, rookie of the year.

Junior girls volleyball: Kate Kolbinson, MVP; Willow Winger, coach’s award.

Senior girls volleyball: Mya Kolbinson, MVP; Rianne Robitaille, coach’s award.

Junior boys basketball: Tanner Cadot, MIP; Hayden Royer, coach’s award.

Senior boys basketball: Draper, MVP; Cole Istok, coach’s award.

Boys hockey: Ethan Millar,MVP; Ayden Smith, rookie of the year; Connor Claire, coach’s award.

Girls hockey: Echlin, MVP; Lola Lariviere, coach’s award.

Swimming: Lee, MVP; Dickie, coach’s award.

Badminton: Laur and Draper, MVPs; Ash Reczynski, coach’s award.

Girls soccer: Echlin and Sarah Smith, MVPs; Jayna Stanley, Golden Boot.

Boys soccer: Dickie, MVP; Aydan Smith, coach’s award.

Track and field: Owen Robins, senior MVP: Madelyn Goulding, junior MVP; Sam Tonnies, coach’s award.

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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