The Georgian College Athletic Department held their 44th annual varsity awards banquet on Thursday night at the Athletic Centre on the Barrie Campus.
Men’s golfer Colton Kalkanis earned the Cloutier Cup as Georgian’s Male Athlete of the Year for the second straight year.
Summer Bly returned to play women’s basketball at Georgian after a two year absence and picked up right where she left off. Bly earned the Greer Trophy as Female Athlete of the Year for the second time, which she also earned in her last season in 2010-11.
Rookie of the year awards were handed out on Thursday night. Female honours went to Chloe Wells & Cory Pond (golf) and Teq Zwarych (basketball) won male rookie of the year.
An incredible twenty-five student athletes received an OCAA All-Academic Award for achieving an average of at least 80% or higher while also representing the college as a varsity athlete. Both Kalkanis and Bly were also awarded the Academic & Athletic Excellence Award for their accomplishments both as top athletes and top students in their programs.
Here is a look at the other winners on Thursday night:
Male Athlete of the Year – Cloutier Cup
- Colton Kalkanis – Golf
Female Athlete of the Year – Greer Trophy
- Summer Bly – Basketball
Rookie of the Year Award
- Female: Chloe Wells/Cory Pond – Golf
- Male: Teq Zwarych – Basketball
Howard/Belcourt Award
- The Howard/Belcourt Award is presented to an athlete that displays outstanding sportsmanship, dedication, commitment, attitude and leadership.
- Erin McClean – Women’s Volleyball
McKillican Trophy
- The McKillican Trophy was established by Dr. Donald McKillican a former Student Service Director at Georgian College. The award is for outstanding contribution to the Athletic Department by a student.
- Maggie Tremblay – Badminton
Academic & Athletic Excellence Award
- Female: Summer Bly - Basketball
- Male: Colton Kalkanis - Golf
Team Most Valuable Player Awards
- Badminton (F) – Maggie Tremblay
- Badminton (M) – Ethan Zhou
- Women’s Basketball – Summer Bly
- Men’s Basketball – Justin Mitchell
- Cross Country Running (F) – Serafima Stilman
- Cross Country Running (M) – Ryan Fennell
- Golf (M) – Colton Kalkanis
- Golf (F) – Cory Pond
- Women’s Indoor Soccer – Jackie Webster
- Men’s Indoor Soccer – Gavin deGroot
- Men’s Rugby – Austin St. Amant
- Women’s Volleyball – Hannah Campbell
- Men’s Volleyball – Jason Grimm
OCAA All-Academic Award
- The OCAA All-Academic Award is for students who have achieved combined excellence in academics and athletics. At Georgian, students must achieve an average of 80% or higher in the classroom and be a member of one of our 13 varsity teams.
- Colton Kalkanis – Men’s Golf * SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian
- Thomas Waver – Men’s Rugby
- Ryan Chan – Men’s Cross Country
- Matt Jelley – Men’s Cross Country
- Evan Lynch – Men’s Cross Country
- Robert Simpson-Spook – Men’s Cross Country
- Kayla Desroches – Women’s Cross Country
- Catherine Guerten – Women’s Cross Country
- Samantha West – Women’s Cross Country
- Emily Rosborough – Women’s Badminton
- Maggie Tremblay – Women’s Badminton * SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian
- Josh Milligan – Men’s Badminton
- Arshdeep Aujla – Men’s Badminton
- Justin Atkinson – Men’s Volleyball
- Erin McClean – Women’s Volleyball
- Renata Lindrop – Women’s Volleyball
- Amanda Smith – Women’s Volleyball
- Lyndon Sonego – Men’s Volleyball
- Justin Burke – Men’s Volleyball
- Ryan Moriarty – Men’s Volleyball
- Jacob Edwards – Men’s Volleyball
- Matthew Kerr – Men’s Volleyball
- Chad Kuiack – Men’s Volleyball
- Summer Bly – Women’s Basketball* SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian
- Jazmyn Canning – Women’s Basketball
- Ryan Chan – Men’s Cross Country
- Jay Harris – Men’s Cross Country
- Michelle Nielsen – Women’s Indoor Soccer
- Morgan Walkem – Women’s Indoor Soccer
- Will Gormaly – Men’s Indoor Soccer
- Emanuel Vasiliev – Men’s Indoor Soccer
