PEISAA Announces Student-Athlete Award Honouring Brodie McCarthy
February 20, 2023 by admin
Filed under Canadian Sport Features, Monthly Highlights
PEISAA Announces Student-Athlete Award
Honouring Brodie McCarthy
The P.E.I. School Athletic Association (PEISAA) is launching an award to recognize a graduating student while honouring the memory of a former student-athlete.
Phil Bridges, school sport co-ordinator for the PEISAA, announced the PEISAA Brodie McCarthy Student-Athlete Award during the association’s senior AAA basketball championships at Holland College on Feb. 15.
“The basic criteria around this (award) is it will be awarded to a student in Grade 12; it is a person who is involved in school sport; a person who demonstrates leadership; a person who has good academic standing and not necessarily the best student in the school, but a student who is working well within their academic abilities,” said PEISAA chair Darryl Boudreau.
“We will also look at the non-sport activities that a student might be doing within their own school as well. It could be something with student involvement, it could be volunteering for events going on in the school that is not sports-related.”
The award is named in honour of McCarthy, who died following a head injury that happened in the Three Oaks Senior High School’s David Voye Memorial rugby tournament in Summerside in May 2018. The son of Lisa and Dave McCarthy of Cambridge, near Montague, was 18 and in Grade 12 at Montague Regional High School.
“We were pretty pleased and surprised that Phil approached us with naming the award after Brodie (in the fall of 2022),” Lisa told SaltWire Network in a phone interview. “It was a really nice gesture, and we were happy about it.”
Brodie McCarthy – Contributed
Lisa said it is “quite the compliment” for the family to have the award named after Brodie. Lisa said Brodie loved sports and would eat, sleep and breathe sports.
“There were more sports that he loved than he didn’t love,” said Lisa. “He was a well-rounded athlete I’d say.”
The fact there is a broader span to this award that is more than just athletics means a lot to the McCarthy family.
“It just doesn’t go to the best athlete necessarily or (someone) not necessarily who has top, top marks,” said Lisa.
At a glance
Here is the citeria for the P.E.I. School Athletic Association Brodie McCarthy Student-Athlete Award:
- Student must be in Grade 12 and meeting requirements to graduate in the current year.
- This is a student-athlete award and not an academic award, but the student must have an average of over 70 per cent in their Grade 12 year.
- Student must have participated in at least two PEISAA-sanctioned sports – individual or team – during their Grade 12 year, along with being a good sport.
- Involvement in other activities within their school.
- Involvement in the community, volunteer work, etc.
