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Sir Winston Churchill athletic award winners

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Pictured left to right are Sir Winston Churchill’s athlete of the year Ben Katzman, Jenna Coles, Ally Sentance and Jacob Cielen-Gough.

Ben Katzman and Jenna Coles were named Sir Winston Churchill’s senior boys and girls athletes of the year at the St. Catharines high school’s recent awards ceremony.

Junior athletes of the year were Ally Sentance and Jacob Cielen-Gough.

Academic award winners left to right are Diego Ruiz. Ben Katzman, Taylor Meechan and Caira Harshaw.

Earning Academic and Athletics Awards for having an average of more than 90 per cent and participating on three or more teams were Diego Ruiz, Katzman, Taylor Meechan and Caira Harshaw.

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

Football: Diego Ruiz and Ben Katzman, Bulldog Awards; Hawkin Paleczny and Reid Edmonds, Paul Salfi Award (rookies); Matt Johnson, Mike Fair Award (MVP).

Junior girls basketball: Lauren Vanecko.

Senior girls basketball: Nat Weber.

Junior boys volleyball: Griffin Whitehorne and Matt Jeffery.

Senior boys volleyball: The entire team.

Cross country: To be awarded at their banquet.

Golf: Peyton Enns.

Tennis: Andrew Jackson.

Junior girls volleyball: Olivia Krieger.

Junior boys basketball: Brendan Barker.

Senior boys basketball: Asim Serri.

Junior boys hockey: Carter Geoffroy.

Varsity boys hockey: Austin Smith-Koopman.

Girls hockey: Rachelle Kucharic.

Wrestling: Matt Keyes and Madeleine Leung.

Swimming: Zac Vrhovsek and Jordyn Carter.

Badminton: Bronte Detenbeck.

Boys soccer: Caleb Crawford.

Girls soccer: Jordyn Gabrielle.

Baseball: Nolan Phelan.

Slo-pitch: Taylor Meechan.

Lacrosse: Ben Katzman.

Track and field: Ceirra Perron and Jacob Cielan-Gough.

Rowing: Hailin Wang. Olivia Sommer, Ben Beaulne and Yaz Savas.

Academics/Athletics Grade 9 girl: Stefani Mrkalj.

Academics/Athletics Grade 10 girl: Charlotte Chan.

Academics/Athletics Grade 11 girl: Kelsey Bowman.

Academics and Athletics Grade 11 boy: Alex Meffe.

Academics and Athletics Grade 12 girls: Taylor Meechan and Ciara Harshaw.

Academics and Athletics Grade 12 boys: Diego Ruiz, Hailin Wang and Ben Katzman.

 

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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