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Sir Winston Churchill athletic awards

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Brookelyn Keltos and Quinn Johnston were named Sir Winston Churchill’s senior athletes of the year.

Recognized as junior athletes of the year were James Lindsay and Shannen Short.

Following are the rest of the athletic award winners:

Junior football: Xavier Sisco and Kai Digweed.

Senior football: Justin Savoie, Ty Kostyniuk and Bishop Ralph; Cory Witter Paul Salfi Award Rookie of the Year: Cory Witter; Brady Pupek and Quinn Johnston, Mike Fair Award MVP.

Junior girls basketball: Sarah Hardy.

Senior girls basketball: Brookelyn Keltos.

Junior boys volleyball: James Lindsay.

Senior boys volleyball: Brady Pupek.

Cross country: Brianna Vermue, Jaxson Hildrith, Walker Rollo, Hailey Taubeneck, Sam Dellalian and Tessa Grosvenor.

Golf: Casey Kenney and Cadyn Wilson.

Tennis: Kendra Osa.

Junior girls volleyball: Emily Pathe.

Senior girls volleyball: Josie Hoadley, Brookelyn Keltos, Renette Mahrouse, Erin Short, Kate Smyth and Suzzanna Toussaint.

Junior boys basketball: Coby Azor and Azlan Dhami.

Senior boys basketball: Mazen Yagubi and Brady Pupek.

Senior boys hockey: Matthew Taubeneck.

Junior boys hockey: Noah Read.

Girls hockey: Lauryn Busseri, Erin Short and Sam Greene.

Curling: Emily Honsinger.

Cheer: Gaby Buffong.

Squash: Kendra Osa and Charles Easingwood.

Badminton: David Lu and Mandy Zhang.

Junior boys soccer: Carson Walker.

Senior boys soccer: Lebron Owusu.

Girls soccer: Mackenzie Munroe-Flora and Yemi Oladipo.

Baseball: Nigel Sebastianelli.

Slo-pitch: Madison Schram.

Lacrosse: Ty Kostyniuk.

Ultimate: Brady Pupek, Quinn Johnston, Brookelyn Keltos and Erin Short.

Track and field: Dylon Flook, Thea Quinn and Barron Walker.

Rowing: Arden White, Kairsen Frick, Levi Patterson-Raby and Pippa Soyka Rozendaal.

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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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