{"id":548314,"date":"2026-03-20T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:06:07","slug":"stamps-named-finalist-for-ted-goveia-football-operations-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548314\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamps Named Finalist For Ted Goveia Football Operations Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Stampeders have been named a finalist by the Canadian Football League for the inaugural Ted Goveia Football Operations Award.<\/p>\n<p>The award is named in honour of the late Ted Goveia, a longtime football operations leader and three-time Grey Cup champion with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts.<\/p>\n<p>The Ted Goveia Football Operations Award recognizes a CFL club\u2019s football operations department for outstanding achievement in scouting, player identification, roster building and leadership. The award is voted on by the football operations departments of the nine CFL clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Notable acquisitions made by the Stampeders in 2025 who contributed to the team\u2019s nomination include trades for quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/vernon-jr-adams\/159680\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Adams Jr.<\/a> and defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/folarin-orimolade\/163660\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Folarin Orimolade<\/a>, national draft picks Damien Alford, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/chris-fortin\/182342\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Fortin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/quincy-vaughn\/182831\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quincy Vaughn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/ludovick-choquette\/182238\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ludovick Choquette<\/a>, global draft pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/mark-vassett\/184018\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Vassett<\/a>, defensive backs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/adrian-greene\/167004\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Greene<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/derrick-moncrief\/163122\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Moncrief<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/damon-webb\/165623\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damon Webb<\/a> through CFL free agency and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/jaydon-grant\/169356\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaydon Grant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/sheldon-ii-arnold\/184183\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Arnold<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/anthony-johnson-3\/169193\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Johnson Jr.<\/a> as American rookies who claimed starting jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to impactful support by the equipment, video, and medical staffs, the Stampeders\u2019 2025 football operations department consisted of the following individuals:<\/p>\n<p>General manager and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/dave-dickenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Dickenson<\/a><br \/>Assistant general manager and director of player personnel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/brendan-mahoney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Mahoney<\/a><br \/>Director of U.S. scouting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/cole-hufnagel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Hufnagel<\/a><br \/>Director of Canadian scouting and U.S. scout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/dwayne-cameron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne Cameron<\/a><br \/>Director of operations Nick Bojda<br \/>Manager of team services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/molly-campbell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two other football operations departments across the league named as finalists for the award are the Tiger-Cats and Saskatchewan Roughriders. The winner will be announced as part of the CFL\u2019s Coach of the Year Celebration at The Westin Edmonton on Mar. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders have been named a finalist by the Canadian Football League for the inaugural Ted Goveia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-548314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548314","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=548314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}