2022 NBIAA Excellence Awards
April 17, 2022 by admin
Filed under Canadian Sport Features, Monthly Highlights
The New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association is pleased to offer our Excellence Awards again this season, after having to cancel the event the past two years due to the pandemic. Unfortunately, we have made the decision that the afternoon banquet will not be held this month and awards will be delivered to the recipients.
Our partner, AOTV, will be producing a NBIAA Year in Review video to acknowledge all sport accomplishments to date and our Excellence Award recipients will also be recognized in this video. We hope to be able to share this video by the end of April.
Twenty-two student athletes (listed below) from the NBIAA’s four conferences received the Raymond Légère Excellence Award. These students have shown outstanding qualities throughout the school year while participating in NBIAA sports.
Raymond Légère Excellence Award Recipients 2022
Northern Conference Winners / Prix de la conférence du nord
| Class / gender / genre | Name / nom | School / École |
| A Girls / Filles | Layla Hallihan | Blackville School |
| A Boys / Garçons | Camden Curtis | Blackville School |
| AA Girls / Filles | Jenna Kennedy | Miramichi Valley High School |
| AA Boys / Garçons | Ashton Kenny | Bathurst High School |
| AAA Girls / Filles | No nominations received / Aucune nomination reçue | |
| AAA Boys / Garçons | Koen Poirier | École secondaire Népisiguit |
Eastern Conference Winners / Prix de la conférence de l’est
| Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
| A Girls / Filles | Gabrielle Côté | École Mgr-M.-F.-Richard |
| A Boys / Garçons | Patrick Savoie | École Mgr-M.-F.-Richard |
| AA Girls / Filles | Myriam Richard | Polyvalente Louis-J.-Robichaud |
| AA Boys / Garçons | Kallum Fletcher | Bonar Law Memorial School |
| AAA Girls / Filles | Grace Baillie Forsythe | Harrison Trimble High School |
| AAA Boys / Garçons | Jonathan Thériault | École L’Odyssée |
Southern Conference Winners / Prix de la conférence du sud
| Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
| A Girls / Filles | Gabrielle Messer | McAdam High School |
| A Boys / Garçons | No nominations received / Aucune nomination reçue | |
| AA Girls / Filles | Kira Whittier | St. Stephen High School |
| AA Boys / Garçons | Ryan Weeks | St. Stephen High School |
| AAA Girls / Filles | Elizabeth McLean | Sussex Regional High School |
| AAA Boys / Garçons | Hussein Al Ali | St. Malachy’s Memorial High School |
Western Conference Winners / Prix de la conférence du nord
| Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
| A Girls / Filles | Emily Briggs | Tobique Valley High School |
| A Boys / Garçons | Gavin Calder | Nackawic High School |
| AA Girls / Filles | Janie Pelletier | Polyvalente Thomas-Albert |
| AA Boys / Garçons | Andrew Watson | Woodstock High School |
| AAA Girls / Filles | Amy Desroches | Cité des Jeunes A.-M.-Sormany |
| AAA Boys / Garçons | Tyler Leaman | Leo Hayes High School |
The top two, one male and one female, in each school classification, will receive the William S. Ritchie Excellence Award and these recipients will be announced during the NBIAA Year in Review video.
The William S. Ritchie Excellence Award recipients will be updated soon:
(photo from left to right)
A Girls
Taylor Clark – Hartland Community School
AA Girls
Courtney Taylor – St. Stephen High School
AAA Girls
A Boys
Ben MacDonald – Bathurst High School
AA Boys
Ben Irvine – Simonds High School
AAA Boys
Stuart Lawson – Belle Valley High School
Emery Johnson Memorial Award
This award goes to the Most Sportsmanlike Coach of the Year and recognizes their outstanding lifetime achievements towards students and the NBIAA school sports programs. This award is named after Emery Johnson, the former athletic director of Dalhousie Regional High School and the NBIAA Executive Committee, who passed away in November 2003.
The Emery Johnson Memorial Award will be presented to Eric Arseneault from Simonds High School.
Team Sportsmanship of the Year Awards
In 2014, the New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association introduced an annual School Sportsmanship of the Year Awards. In 2017, the ‘School Award’ was modified to a ‘Team Award’, which aims to recognize a team, whose athletes, coaches and fans promote what sportsmanship is all about in every aspect of high school athletics.The following teams were honored for their accomplishments at the NBIAA Sportsmanship Banquet:
Northern Conference
École secondaire Népisiguit’s Junior Girls Soccer Team
Western Conference
Polyvalente Thomas-Albert’s Girls Hockey Team
