sportbc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe awards celebrate sport in B.C. at all levels, noted Rob Newman, Sport BC president and CEO.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were inspired by the sport stories of all our finalists, winners, and the organizations they represent,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are proud to bring the amateur sport community together and thank our guests, sponsors, and friends in sport. I would like to personally thank the Province of B.C. and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport for being the lead supporter of the event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Full list of 2026 Sport BC Athlete of the Year Awards recipients:<\/p>\n
I-SPARC Female Athlete of the Year: Shalaya Valenzuela, rugby<\/p>\n
I-SPARC Male Athlete of the Year: Fynn McCarthy, volleyball<\/p>\n
Female Athlete with a Disability: Elise Froese, wheelchair basketball<\/p>\n
Female Coach of the Year: Hilary Stellingwerff, cross country<\/p>\n
Male Coach of the Year: Carlo Basso, soccer<\/p>\n
Male Athlete with a Disability: Thomas Venos, wheelchair tennis<\/p>\n
High School Female Athlete of the Year: Adrianna Buitelaar, athletics<\/p>\n
High School Male Athlete of the Year: Elijah Black<\/p>\n
Junior Female Athlete of the Year: Elly Hoskin, cycling\/mountain bike<\/p>\n
Junior Male Athlete of the Year: Praise Aniamaka, athletics<\/p>\n
Senior Male Athlete of the Year: Jackson Goldstone, cycling (mountain bike, downhill)<\/p>\n
Youth Male Athlete of the Year: Lowan Le Bris, judo<\/p>\n
Youth Female Athlete of the Year: Lily Stroda, athletics<\/p>\n
Team of the Year: Duchess Park Sr Boys Volleyball<\/p>\n
Masters Athlete of the Year: Shelly Stouffer, golf, Nanoose Bay<\/p>\n
Official of the Year: Grace Barlow, ice hockey<\/p>\n
Additional awards were presented including the Best of BC, Harry Jerome Comeback, Daryl Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award, Bobbie Steen, and two In Her Footsteps Honourees:<\/p>\n
Best of BC \u2013 Vancouver Rise FC, soccer.<\/p>\n
Harry Jerome Comeback Award \u2013 Larissa Franklin, softball<\/p>\n
Daryl Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award: Terrie Moore, multi-sport\/ SportAbility<\/p>\n
BC Women and Sport Recognition Awards: In Her Footsteps\u2026Celebrating BC Women in Sport:<\/p>\n
Cathy Astofooroff, snowboard<\/p>\n
Savanna Smith, lacrosse<\/p>\n
Bobbie Steen Legacy Foundation Award:<\/p>\n
Teagan Johnstone, multi sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Surrey men won Athlete of the Year awards at a Sport BC ceremony on Thursday, March 5,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-520459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}