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Friday
August 26, 2005
NDG Awards
- 2005
Co-Presidents
Terry Doucet & Lionel Geller emceed the awards ceremony last
night, Thursday August 25th, at the Coaches Banquet.
The
first awards that were presented were the President's Awards. The
President's Award is given to those volunteers that the President
believes has gone over and above in their contribution to the
league.
The President's
Awards
Charlie Hinley
Photo: Charlie Hinley & CDN Banquet
Official
As
Terry Doucet mentioned, Charlie has been involved with NDG Baseball
for many years as an umpire. While we have many umpires in the
league Charlie is truly in every sense of the word an example of
what a Little League umpire should be. Not only does he officiate a
game fairly but has encouraging words for the players when things
don't go as planned. Charlie is truly a delight for our teams and
opposing teams to be associated with.
Charlie
also has taken it upon himself to clean the Loyola 1 club-house. For
the past few years, on his own time, Charlie spends one to two
times a week cleaning the washrooms and the storage areas so the
kids and parents can feel comfortable using our facilities.
If it wasn't for Charlie, Loyola 1 club-house would be a total
disaster.
Donna
Lesage
Donna
is NDG Baseball's treasurer. As treasurer she is not only
responsible for processing our financial reports but she is in charge of
monitoring NDG Baseball's primary source of revenue, Bingo, which occurs
every Tuesday night for the entire year. This year Donna was also in charge
of special events and therefore, organized fun day, organized and
prepared the meals for the Coaches Banquet as well as for other smaller NDG
Baseball gatherings throughout the year. She also helped out with the Minor
Division.
Greg
Pernell
Greg
has been one of the go-to guys for NDG Baseball for many years.
When a field has been drenched with rain, Greg is usually the one
that can be counted on to get the field ready no matter what the
hour of the day.
Greg
also worked full-time as a volunteer during: the Michelin
Tournament, the Junior Provincials, and Fun Day. He was also one of
the Junior Lynx practice coaches and its' equipment manager.
Katherine
Gall
Katherine
has been one of NDG Baseball's most unseen but not unnoticed committed
volunteers. This year Katherine volunteered full-time during: the
Michelin Tournament, the Junior Provincials, and Fun Day.
Jim
Mavrokefalos
Photo: Jim Mavrokefalos, Bradley
Thomas, Jason Doucet, & Jesse Gouldson
Jim
currently lives in Ile Perrot yet was still fully active in NDG
Baseball activities as the Registrar and for Field Reservations.
During Board Meetings, Jim also acted as a consultant on issues and was
instrumental in researching the newly adopted split season proposal
which will be implemented starting next year.
The
previous two years, Jim was league president and last year won the
award for the Borough Administrator of the the Year.
Coaching Staff of the Year
Minor
Lynx Staff:
Jason
Doucet, Jesse Gouldson, & Bradley Thomas
by
Terry Doucet
NDG Baseball received the following recommendation for our Coach of
the Year Award. We cannot think of a better description to outline the
reasons for the selection:
"It
has been an honor and a privilege to have these three young men
coach and mould our son into the player and person he has become.
In the last two years as the coaching staff of the Minor Lynx these
three coaches have done an amazing job of developing the future
stars of NDG Minor Baseball. I have never seen 9 and 10 year olds
smile and have so much fun while learning very difficult skills
(and boy did they learn) as they did under the tutelage of these
three coaches."
I would also like to add that after speaking with quite a few
veteran administrators from NDG and other organizations
in Little League Quebec that to their knowledge, they have
never seen the President and board of L.L.Q. stand up at an
annual provincial meeting and praise a coaching staff from any
league the way they did for these three coach's for their conduct
and class at last year's Minor Provincial Tournament. Any
of our children who were lucky
enough to have these three young men as coaches this year
and last will be reaping the rewards for years to come of the
valuable skills and life lessons they learned from them. What
else can we ask for.
NDG
Baseball is very pleased and honoured to bestow its highest
coaching award to: Jason, Jesse and Bradley.
Volunteer
of the Year
Junior
Tournament Director:
James
Rankine
By Terry Doucet
James
Rankine was an incredible work-horse for NDG Baseball. Some of his
many achievements include:
- Indoor fundamentals training throughout the winter
- Filling in for the Senior Lynx coach
- Helping out with the Junior Lynx
- Director of Junior House League
- Director of Michelin Tournament (a 50 hour weekend)
- Director of Quebec Provincial Junior Championships (2 weekends of
50 hours)
- Webmaster
- Coaching House League and competitive teams this year when needed
- Arranging the park time for all Junior and our Senior teams at
Loyola-1 this year
- Grounds-keeping to keep our fields safe for ball players
- Umpiring & Scorekeeping
- Always being available to help out any team at any level with any
instruction they might need
NDG
Baseball is very pleased and honoured to bestow its highest award
to James.
James
mentioned in his acceptance speech that while he was honored to
receive the award he knows that there are many in the organization
who have done a vast amount of work this year and that could of
easily won this award, notably:
Celine
Massy,
who co-convened the Junior Division with James as they worked in
tandem during the Michelin and Junior Provincial tournaments.
Donna
Lesage who
worked as treasurer and special events coordinator
Terry
Doucet who
was co-president, ran our pitching clinic during the winter and our
coaches clinic during the spring. He was an instrumental help at
the Michelin Tournament, and was a full-time scorekeeper at the
Junior Provincials and Fun Day.
Lionel
Geller who
could be seen everywhere at every level of NDG Baseball this year
worked as: co-president, equipment manager, convener for the:
Novice, T-Ball, & Senior Divisions, was a major contributor at
the Michelin Tournament & Fun Day, and is generally seen as the
main resource person in NDG Baseball.
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