The Pete Beach Award is named in honour of Mr. N.A. Pete Beach, a former Executive Director of OFSAA, who died in 1984. Mr. Beach recognized, early in his career, that school sport possessed a substantial and verifiable trait of the capacity to contribute beyond sport to a young person’s future career and life. For the next fifty years, he devoted his energy to the organizational development of school sport and thus to the service of young people.
In view of the complexity of the developmental process, it is a rare educator indeed who has the capacity to utilize the medium of school sport in such a way as to positively and sufficiently influence students in the remainder of their lives. That educator is one who consistently provides an impression of stability and optimism, one who enjoys the company, and the respect, of young people; one who embodies, and initiates by example, the highest traditions of the sportsperson; one who best typifies the true function of the teacher-coach—a source of discipline, a mentor and a friend.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
During their career the nominee has been:
Active as a teacher-coach
Active as a GBSSA and/or OFSAA convenor
Active in administration of school sport activities (at the local, regional or provincial levels)
Influential in the development of their student-athletes as a source of discipline, as a mentor and as a friend
The Marr Ross Award may be presented to a teacher/coach who has demonstrated outstanding
contribution to extra-curricular athletic activities.
The candidate should exhibit many of the following characteristics:
dedicated teacher
teacher/coach who demonstrates a love for coaching student athletes
demonstrates continued leadership in school sport wither as an official, GBSSA Executive member or as a convenor of a sport.
The David Shepherd Award may be presented to a teacher/coach who has demonstrated outstanding contribution to extra-curricular athletic activities.
A teacher/coach who has shown outstanding:
Outstanding leadership in sport
Extensive volunteering of time and energy to creating opportunities for student-athletes
Leadership through convening events and being dedicated to assisting coaches and athletes
A coach who puts athletes first