NBIAA-ASINB AWARDS 2019
May 9, 2019 by admin
Filed under Provincial and Territorial News
2019 Awards Banquet
The New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association held its 14th Annual Sportsmanship Awards Banquet on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 at St. Thomas University in Rigby Hall in Fredericton.
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 2019
Northern Conference Winners / Lauréats des prix de la conférence du nord
Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
A Girls / Filles | Alyson Northrup | Stanley Consolidated School |
A Boys / Garçons | Alexander MacIntosh | École Carrefour Beausoleil |
AA Girls / Filles | Gracelyn Condo | Sugarloaf Senior High School |
AA Boys / Garçons | Ben MacDonald | Bathurst High School |
AAA Girls / Filles | Kassia Schenkels | Miramichi Valley High School |
AAA Boys / Garçons | Samuel Chiasson | École secondaire Népisiguit |
Eastern Conference Winners / Lauréats des prix de la conférence de l’est
Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
A Girls / Filles | Mélanie Landry | École Mgr-M.-F.-Richard |
A Boys / Garçons | Stuart Lawson | Belleisle Regional High School |
AA Girls / Filles | Bianca Goulet | École Clément-Cormier |
AA Boys / Garçons | Samuel Bourque | École Clément-Cormier |
AAA Girls / Filles | Janelle Bastarache | École Mathieu-Martin |
AAA Boys / Garçons | Jackson Green | Riverview High School |
Southern Conference Winners / Lauréats des prix de la conférence du sud
Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
A Girls / Filles | ||
A Boys / Garçons | ||
AA Girls / Filles | Courtney Taylor | St. Stephen High School |
AA Boys / Garçons | Shane Brown | Fundy High School |
AAA Girls / Filles | Jillian Beck | Harbour View High School |
AAA Boys / Garçons | Ben Irvine | Simonds High School |
Western Conference Winners / Lauréats des prix de la conférence du nord
Class / gender/ genre | Name / nom | School / École |
A Girls / Filles | Taylor Clark | Hartland Community School |
A Boys / Garçons | Isaiah Saad | Nackawic Senior High School |
AA Girls / Filles | Emma Burns | École Sainte-Anne |
AA Boys / Garçons | Bentley Shaw | Woodstock High School |
AAA Girls / Filles | Torrie Janes | Fredericton High School |
AAA Boys / Garçons | Adam Gallop | Leo Hayes High School |
The top two, one male and one female, in each school category, received the William S. Ritchie Excellence Award.

The William S. Ritchie Excellence Award recipients were: (photo from left to right)
A Girls
Taylor Clark – Hartland Community School
AA Girls
Courtney Taylor – St. Stephen High School
AA Boys
Ben MacDonald – Bathurst High School
AAA Boys
Ben Irvine – Simonds High School
A Boys
Stuart Lawson – Belleisle Regional High School
AAA Girls
Kassia Schenkels – Miramichi Valley High School
Emery Johnson Memorial Award
This award goes to the Most Sportsmanlike Coach of the Year. 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 was presented to Julie Hudson from Bonar Law Memorial High School at the
Sportsmanship Banquet by the NBIAA Vice-President, Rodney Buggie.
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 Girls HockeyTeam

Eastern Conference
Sussex Christian School’s Senior Girls Soccer Team

Western Conference
Nackawic Senior High School’s Senior Girls SoccerTeam