The Greater Victoria Sports Awards selection committee has announced the 2024 award winners as the Government House awards ceremony approaches.
An annual fixture between 1968 and 2006, the awards made a comeback in 2023 thanks to the Greater Victoria Sport Tourism Commission.
The Female Athlete of the Year was a three-way tie between Olympic silver medallist rowers Caileigh Filmer and Avalon Wasteneys and rugby sevens silver medallist Caroline Crossley.
Para-athlete Cody Fournie, who took home two gold medals at the Paralympic Summer Games, is taking home the award for best male athlete of the year.
Spectrum Community School students Clara Chudley, a soccer player, and Tyler Felt, a basketball player, are the male and female high school athletes of the year.
Taking the Female College/University Athlete of the Year award is Sai Sai Faubert, a rower from the University of Victoria; and the Male College/University Athlete of the Year is volleyball player Piers de Greeff from Trinity Western University.
The Female Master Athlete of the Year is pickleball player Connie McCann and the Male Master Athlete of the Year is horseshoe pitcher Tom Moffat.
Winning the Male and Female Alex Nelson ‘Ok’wilagame’ Indigenous Athletes of the Year awards are Patrick Elliott of the Vancouver Island Soccer League and Shawnigan Lake School hockey player Alexandra Nelson.
The women's head coach of the UVic rowing team, Jane Gumley, was named Coach of the Year and the Spectrum Senior Boys Basketball team was named Team of the Year.
The Pat Hall Volunteer Award went to Joan Gagnon of the Victoria Special Olympics; the John and Marilyn Bate Organization of the Year Award went to the Canadian Sport Centre Pacific; and finally, the Legacy Award went to the late John Horgan.
The winners will be honoured at an awards ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 27, at Government House. The event begins at 5:45 p.m. and tickets are available at www.gvsa.ca.
