Athletics Canada’s 2010 Annual Award Recipients

Thursday, December 09, 2010

OTTAWA - Athletics Canada announced today the winners of its twelve annual awards, the winners are chosen by Athletics Canada’s Awards Committee from the nominee pool as put forward by the Athletics Canada membership.  The award recipients will be honoured at a banquet following the 2011 Canadian Championships in Calgary, Alberta.

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Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Whitby, ON is the winner of both the Jack W. Davies Trophy for the outstanding overall athlete of the year and the Phil A. Edwards Memorial Trophy for the outstanding athlete of the year in track events. Priscilla started the indoor season where she left off outdoors in 2009, on the podium at a World Championships. Her outdoor season was pure dominance finishing at the front in almost every race she entered capping things off by claiming the title in the 100-metre hurdles in the inaugural Samsung Diamond League.  She finished off 2010 as the IAAF World Leader in the hurdles with the three fastest times of the season.

The Cal D. Bricker Memorial Trophy (outstanding performance of the year) voting ended in a tie with the honour going to both Simon Bairu of Regina, SK and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Whitby, ON. Simon finished 13^th at the World Cross Country Championships crossing the line as the top non-African finisher.  Bairu’s performance at the 2010 World XC Championships ranks up there with the best in Canadian athletics history.