Get your tickets today for 44th Annual Cambridge Sports Awards

The Cambridge Sports Awards are celebrating 44 years of paying tribute to Cambridge’s finest athletes and organizations. The awards honour finalists for Athlete of the Year, Team of the Year, High School Team of the Year, and Sports Organization of the Year. The Winner of Athlete of the Year and the prestigious Sports Contributor Award are announced at the event.

This year’s event will take place at Cambridge City Hall on Friday, November 3. The evening begins with a cocktail reception at 7 p.m. followed by an awards presentation at 7:30 p.m. Dinner is not being served this year.

Tickets are available through eventbrite for $10 each. Ticket sales close October 30, 2017. Call (519) 740-4681, ext. 4205 for further information.

The Sports Awards Committee is privileged to announce that this year’s master of ceremonies is Mandy Bujold. Mandy is an amateur boxer whose career was launched following a successful 2006 when she claimed the Canadian National Championships and Boxer of the Year titles. Since that time she has won 11 consecutive Canadian National championships, three continental championships, a bronze medal at the commonwealth games and two back-to-back gold medals at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games. Mandy finished 5th at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Away from boxing Mandy was a part of the 2015 Pan Am games organization committee and worked on a bid with Waterloo Region for the 2021 Canada Games. She is also the current athlete representative for Boxing Canada.

2017 winners and finalists

Heart of Sport Award

Chris Haas – Jacob Hespeler Secondary School Football

George Hill Team of the Year - Cambridge Turbos 18+

Goalies: Jessie Callander , Danni Walser

Defense: Melissa Breslin, Sydney Granger, Elyssa Jasper, Hannah Starzynski, Jenna Dupuis, Sierra Mitobe.

Centres: Jacqueline Gaudet, Paige Nosal , Jennifer Gaudet, Sam Nosal

Left wing: Sharolyn Wouters, Taylor Campbell, Laura Soper, Sam McCullough

Right wing: Sheri Adams, Sydney Nosal, Kenzie Taylor, Clare Palmer

Head coach: Kevin Lee

Assistant coaches: Sean Taylor and Deborah Findlay

Manager: Mary Dupuis, 

Media relations: Chad Breslin

General manager: Glen Gaudet

High School Team of the Year

St. Benedict’s 2016-2017 Senior Boys Basketball

Evan Rodenburg, Jacob Polski, Carter Johnson, Devante Douse, Justin Malnerich, Zubair Seyed, Alex Douglas, Nick Jack, Justin Ching, Jeremiah Sackey, Sebastian Llorin, Andrew Horscroft and Lucas Cardoso.  

Team manager: Curry Chai 

Team coaches: John Malnerich, Ron Martinello, Hugh Meyer and Gerard Magennis

Sports Organization of the Year

Cambridge Icehounds

Finalists for the 2017 Tim Turow Cambridge Athlete of the Year

Maddie Gardiner – Gymnastics
Carling Zeeman – Rowing
Brooklyn Moors – Gymnastics
Rylee Foster - Soccer
Debbie Bulten – Ultra Marathon
Sevanne Ghazarian – Track
Jon Schwaiger – Tumbling
Jordan Sugrim – Tumbling