CENTENNIAL COLLEGE 2012-13 ATHLETIC AWARDS

TORONTO - On Wednesday, April 3, Centennial College Athletics and Recreation hosted its 46th Annual Athletic Awards Banquet. The event was held inside of the Progress Campus Athletic and Wellness Centre. This year's Awards Banquet was a special night as it included the Centennial's first-ever Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Fifteen Athletes, Coaches, and Builders, were inducted into the Centennial COLTS Hall of Fame. A crowd of 200 were in attendance to honour our student-athletes and Hall of Fame Inductees.   
 
The Class of 2013 Hall of Fame Inductees included Sue Brown - Builder; John Child - Athlete; Wallace Coomansingh - Athlete; Coreen Flemming - Builder; Helen Folker - Coach; Pat Fyffe - Builder; Chuck Gullickson - Builder; Cindy Horton - Athlete; Sharon Ikola - Builder; Cynthia Kane - Athlete; Blair Rossen - Athlete; Carol Slipetz - Coach; Lesreen Thomas - Athlete; Jim Wolch - Coach; and Mary Zettel - Builder. Each inductee was given a special customized COLTS Head award.
 
This year's award winners included Male Athlete of the Year Jameel Williamson of the men's basketball team. Jameel is an all-around leader and is the captain of the COLTS men's basketball team. Jameel garnered a number of accolades throughout the season, the Ryson Rams RUNIT Tournament MVP, Sheridan Bruins Classic Tournament MVP, OCAA Athlete of the Week, OCAA First-Team All Star, and Centennial COLTS Men's Basketball MVP.
 
Female Athlete of the Year Chelsea Gordon, was a linchpin of the team's success this year. Chelsea led the OCAA bronze medalist Centennial COLTS women's soccer team as their team captain. She was also chosen as the Women's Soccer Team MVP. During the season she was named OCAA Defensive Player of The Year as well as an OCAA All-Star.

Rookie of the Year Mark Tarazhi, was recently named co-captain of the varsity men's soccer team. Mark is very mature for his age and helped to lead the team on and off the field this past season. He is the team assist leader and one of the leading goal scorers. He was named the OCAA Rookie of the Year as well as the Men's Soccer Team MVP.

This year's season was particularly successful as all teams made it into the post-season. This has not happened at the school for the last eight years. A highlight of the season was four players receiving the OCAA Athlete of the Week award as well as being named to 13 OCAA awards, and receiving two OCAA All-Academic Awards.

Other award winners were:

Kevin Ronkiewicz - Most Valuable Player Men's Badminton
Varun Jayanathan - Most Improved Player Men's Badminton
Chelsea Gordon - Most Valuable Player Women's Soccer
Maryem Serradilla-Sonmez - Most Improved Player Women's Soccer
Mark Tarazhi - Most Valuable Player Men's Soccer
Dalvinder Johal - Most Improved Player Men's Soccer
Kadeja Hughes - Most Valuable Player Women's Basketball
Bernise Fernandez - Most Improved Player Women's Basketball
Jameel Williamson - Most Valuable Player Men's Basketball
Terrence Nelson - Most Improved Player Men's Basketball
Travis King - Most Valuable Player Men's Golf
Jimmy Duguid - Most Valuable Player Men's Hockey
David Whyte - Most Improved Player Men's Hockey
Zeeshan Hussain - Most Valuable Player Men's Cricket
Pratik Patel - Most Improved Player Men's Cricket
Craig Hanson - Most Valuable Player Men's Basketball Jr. Varsity
Jehrell Atkinson - Most Improved Player Men's Basketball Jr. Varsity
 
Centennial added a new athletic award, which was the All-Academic Team Award. This award is awarded to the team with the highest average GPA. This year's recipient of the team award with an average GPA of 3.39 was the men's soccer team. Paul Clarke was the recipient of the Dennis Macdonald Honourary COLT Award for his 32 years of service which he gave the college as a Coach and Administrator.
 
Photos and video of the event can be found on the COLTS facebook page at www.facebook.com/centennialCOLTS/
 
Centennial would like to thank all of the student-athletes, coaches, sponsors, family members, faculty, administrators and staff that made this year a success in and out of the classroom.

Source: Centennial College