CIS ANNUAL MEETING: CAMPBELL, MINGO, D’AMBOISE, AND SHERRARD TO BE HONOURED BY CIS - U SPORTS

TORONTO (CIS) – Veteran basketball coach Peter Campbell, reporter Rita Mingo, long-time athletic director and football visionary Gilles D’Amboise, and lawyer Michael Sherrard will be honoured by Canadian Interuniversity Sport on Wednesday night in Toronto. The awards dinner will be held at The Sheraton Centre as part of CIS’ annual meeting.

Campbell merits the Jean-Marie De Koninck Coaching Excellence Award, which honours since 2007 an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to university sport as demonstrated by long-term commitment and leadership as a coach at the local, provincial, national and/or international levels.

Mingo will take home the Fred Sgambati Media Award, presented to a member of the media in recognition of major contributions to the development and growth of Canadian university sport.

D’Amboise will receive the Austin-Matthews Award, presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to interuniversity sport, as demonstrated by long-term commitment and leadership as a coach, director, chairperson and/or executive committee member at the local, provincial and/or national levels.

Sherrard will accept the L.B. “Mike” Pearson Award, presented to a distinguished Canadian citizen of outstanding achievements who, having participated in interuniversity athletics, has by his/her personal accomplishments exemplified the ideals and purposes of interuniversity athletics and amateur sport.

“On behalf of the entire CIS membership, in particular our 12,000 student-athletes and 700 coaches, I wish to congratulate our 2016 award recipients,” said Graham Brown, chief executive officer of CIS. “Each of them exemplify passion and leadership in university sport, and we are honoured to show them our sincere appreciation.”

JEAN-MARIE DE KONINCK COACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD

Following a 34‐year career patrolling the sidelines in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) basketball, Wilfrid Laurier men’s basketball Head Coach Peter Campbell retired following the conclusion of the 2015‐16 season. Campbell, who has spent the last 16 years as the head coach of the Golden Hawks, finishes his coaching career at Wilfrid Laurier as the all‐time winningest coach in school history with 150 victories in 326 regular season games entering play this week.

“When the decision was made to hire Peter, an individual who had been a head coach at the national level and had so much success at Laurentian University, it served notice that Laurier was serious about competing in basketball,” commented Wilfrid Laurier Director of Athletics and Recreation Peter Baxter. “He came as advertised right from the beginning, helping to return Laurier basketball to a level it hadn’t been at since the 1960’s and 70’s. His focus from the start was on the student‐athlete, developing them academically and athletically.”

During his time with the purple and gold, Campbell transformed a Golden Hawks program that had struggled to find success since winning seven provincial and one national championship between 1963 and 1971, into a team that has made the playoffs in 14 consecutive seasons. In 2001‐02, his second season with Laurier, Campbell was named Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West Coach of the Year after turning around a team that won just two games the year before to a 12‐win team the next season. Four years later, and boasting a veteran roster from his first recruiting class, Campbell and the Hawks qualified for the CIS Championship for the first time in 28 years thanks to playoff victories over Guelph and Brock. Laurier would go on to finish ninth at the national championship in Halifax after defeating the York Lions 76‐65. Known for putting a team on the floor that plays an entertaining style of basketball, Campbell has seen the Top 7 all‐time leading scorers in school history play for him, including the Golden Hawks most decorated player of all‐time Kale Harrison. A four‐time OUA All‐Star, Harrison earned CIS All‐Canadian honours playing under Campbell in 2010‐11, the first Golden Hawk to be named to the All‐Canadian team since Loren Killion in 1977‐78. Two years later, Campbell oversaw one of the best individual seasons in school history as Max Allin led the country in scoring and finished in the Top 10 for both assists and rebounds en route to being named a CIS All‐Canadian. Both players have since moved on to play professional basketball in Australia.

FRED SGAMBATI MEDIA AWARD

Rita Mingo has always had a hand in university sports and it seems to have been a constant from the beginning of her career.

A sports reporter with both the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, Mingo’s notable coverage that the University of Calgary Dinos have received since her pilgrimage to the city includes the Dinos’ third Vanier Cup win in 1988, all the way to the Dinos men’s basketball run to the CIS Final 8 in 2016. Mingo has also covered Dinos women’s basketball during their 69-game win streak and only CIS Championship win in 1989, as well as the football team’s six consecutive Hardy Cups from 2008-2013.

Mingo also covers the Mount Royal Cougars for Postmedia, providing coverage of major MRU events, including the annual Crowchild Classic game. She also recently covered the Cougars men’s hockey team on their run to the Canada West men’s hockey semifinals.

AUSTIN-MATTHEWS AWARD

Appointed Director of the University Sports Services at Laval University in 1987, when he was only 35 years old, Gilles D’Amboise was quick to establish a solid province-wide reputation as an administrator and manager.

D’Amboise led in the creation of a university football program at Laval. With the help of a few local businessmen, he set up a program that, as few as 18 years later, serves as a reference from one end of the country to the other and which has become a dynasty in itself. Today, more than three years after his retirement, D’Ambroise is still involved in the CIS football world as CEO of the Rouge et Or Football Club, after overseeing the building and inauguration of the new PEPS stadium in 2013.

L.B. “MIKE” PEARSON AWARD

A former UNB basketball and rugby player in the 1980s, and a one-time coach of the Varsity Reds basketball team, lawyer Michael Sherrard remains a staunch supporter of CIS student-athletes.

Sherrard has backed the CIS Top 8 Academic All-Canadian program, a unique opportunity for two athlete representatives from each conferences who have maintained an average of 80 per cent or better, to be honoured by the Governor General. In addition, he continues to support the UNB men’s basketball program and its recruiting efforts, which was recognized with the Alumni Award of Distinction in 2010.

Sherrard Kuzz LLP – one of the leading labour and employment firms in Canada – provides legal services to the CIS, while also offering the Sherrard Kuzz Scholarship. The program offers a $2000 annual award to a student entering second-year law who is enrolled in at least one course in the labour/employment law field.

ALL-TIME CIS ANNUAL AWARD RECIPIENTS

JEAN-MARIE DE KONINCK COACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD:

2015 Gardiner MacDougall (UNB - men’s hockey)

2014 Clare Drake (Alberta - men’s hockey & football)

2013 Sonny Wolfe (McGill & Acadia - football)

2012 Bob Bain (York & Alberta - men’s basketball)

2011 Kathy Shields (Victoria - women’s basketball) *

2011 Dick Mosher (UBC - men’s & women’s soccer) *

2010 Steve Konchalski (St. Francis Xavier - men’s basketball)

2009 Larry Haylor (Western Ontario - football)

2008 Lou Pero (Lakehead - men’s basketball)

2007 Linda Marquis (Laval - women’s basketball)

* co-recipients

FRED SGAMBATI MEDIA AWARD:

2015 Marc Durand (Radio-Canada – Quebec City)

2014 Darren Zary (The StarPhoenix – Saskatoon)

2013 Richard Boutin (Journal de Québec)

2012 Mary Caton (The Windsor Star)

2011 Monty Mosher (The Chronicle Herald - Halifax)

2010 Tim Micallef (The Score Television Network)

2009 Howard Tsumura (The Province - Vancouver)

2008 Pierre Durivage (Productions Rivage - Montreal)

2007 Bill Sturrup (CHML Radio - Hamilton)

2006 Serge Vleminckx (Journal de Montréal)

2005 Ian Hamilton (Leader-Post - Regina)

2004 Jean-Paul Ricard (La Tribune - Sherbrooke)

2003 John Short (Edmonton Journal & CJCA Radio)

2002 Wayne Kondro (The Ottawa Citizen & Southam News)

2001 Phil Lachapelle & Ken Welch (CHTV - Hamilton)

2000 CHRW Radio (University of Western Ontario - London)

1999 Christine Rivet (Kitchener-Waterloo Record)

1998 Robert MacLeod (The Globe and Mail)

1997 Paul Hendrick (ONtv - Hamilton)

1996 Ken Newans (CFCN-TV - Calgary)

1995 Not awarded

1994 Bruce Perrin (TSN)

1993 Not awarded

1992 Serge Vleminckx (Journal de Montréal)

1991 Not awarded

1990 Ken Fathers (The Windsor Star)

1989 Ken Newans (CFCN-TV - Calgary)

1988 Norm Marshall (CHCH-TV – Hamilton)

1987 Peter Watts (TSN) *

1987 Don Lovegrove (The Hamilton Spectator) *

1986 Pete James (CFPL TV – London)

1985 Scott Mathews (Atlantic Television Network)

1984 John Hancock (CBC Radio - Montreal)

1983 Al Ryan (The Toronto Star)

1982 Scott Taylor (Winnipeg Free Press) *

1982 Normand Légère (L’Évangéline – Moncton) *

1981 Mike Murray (The Hockey News) *

1981 Henry Pasila (CHCH-TV – Hamilton) *

1980 Wally Sears (Sackville Tribune Post)

1979 Henry Viney (CFCN-TV – Calgary)

1978 Not awarded

1977 Randy Phillips (The Gazette - Montreal)

1976 Bill Johns (Kitchener-Waterloo Record)

1975 Jim Crerar (Victoria Daily Times)

1974 Hugh Townsend (The Chronicle Herald – Halifax)

1973 Jim Vipond (The Globe and Mail)

1972 Bob Gage (The London Free Press)

* co-recipients

AUSTIN-MATTHEWS AWARD:

2015 Jack Neumann (University of Calgary)

2014 Dale Schulha (University of Alberta)

2013 Bob Philip (University of British Columbia)

2012 Patricia Murray (York University)

2011 Major William John ‘Danny’ McLeod (Royal Military College)

2010 Francis Clayton (Lakehead University)

2009 Robert Dubeau (McGill University)

2008 Ross Wilson (University of Saskatchewan)

2007 Barb Mullaly (University of Prince Edward Island)

2006 Lyle Sanderson (University of Saskatchewan)

2005 Aubrey Ferris (University of Winnipeg)

2004 Not awarded

2003 Val Schneider (University of Saskatchewan)

2002 Joyce Fromson (University of Manitoba)

2001 Darwin Semotiuk (University of Western Ontario)

2000 Jean-François Grenier (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières)

1999 Not awarded

1998 Don Wells (Acadia University)

1997 Rich Newbrough (Wilfrid Laurier University)

1996 Keith Harris (Carleton University)

1995 Ken & Donna Fultz (Atlantic Universities Athletic Association)

1994 Mary Lyons (York University)

1993 Robert Hindmarch (University of British Columbia)

1992 Not awarded

1991 Not awarded

1990 Not awarded

1989 Carl Totzke (Wilfrid Laurier University)

1988 Not awarded

1987 Robert Descheneaux (Laval University)

1986 Marilyn Pomfret (University of British Columbia)

1985 Ed Zemrau (University of Alberta)

1984 Vance Toner (Université de Moncton)

1983 Gladys Bean (McGill University)

1982 Elizabeth Chard (Saint Mary’s University)

1981 Robert Pugh (McGill University & CIAU)

L.B. “MIKE” PEARSON AWARD:

2015 Not awarded

2014 Not awarded

2013 Not awarded

2012 The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry

2011 Not awarded

2010 Not awarded

2009 Not awarded

2008 Not awarded

2007 Not awarded

2006 Dr. Jean-Marie De Koninck

2005 Sylvia Fedoruk

2004 Not awarded

2003 Ed Zemrau

2002 Dr. Robert Brodrick

2001 Dick Pound

2000 Paul Giannelia

1999 Dr. Sean Riley

1998 Not awarded

1997 Carol Anne Letheren

1996 Doug Mitchell

1995 John Cleghorn

1994 Senator Trevor Eyton

1993 Not awarded

1992 Not awarded

1991 Not awarded

1990 Not awarded

1989 Not awarded

1988 Not awarded

1987 Not awarded

1986 Not awarded

1985 George Springate

1984 Dr. Hugh Noble

1983 Not awarded

1982 Not awarded

1981 Not awarded

1980 The Right Honourable Roland Michener

1979 Not awarded

1978 Not awarded

1977 Not awarded

1976 Not awarded

1975 Angus Duncan McLachlin

1974 Not awarded

1973 Not awarded

1972 The Right Honourable L.B. “Mike” Pearson

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http://en.cis-sic.ca/information/members_info/annual_general_meeting.

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