TORONTO – AthletesCAN, the association of Canada’s national team athletes, announced today the opening of nominations for the 47th Canadian Sport Awards. Founded in 1972, the awards recognize the spirit, drive, and commitment of Canada’s international-level athletes, coaches, volunteers, and sport leaders.
Canadians all across the country are encouraged to nominate athletes, coaches, volunteers and leaders who demonstrated greatness on and off the field of play in the past year. Canadians can fill out a digital nomination form or email a fillable PDF to [email protected] to nominate a member of the Canadian sport community who went above and beyond in the last year.
This year, the Canadian Sport Awards will recognize the hard work of the team behind Team Canada with the inauguration of the Athlete Support Award. This new award recognizes a Canadian citizen, charity, or business who has made significant contributions to supporting Team Canada athletes off the field of play. The award recognizes the significant contributions of those individuals and groups who work to ensure Team Canada athletes have the resources necessary to succeed in their athletic endeavours.
The 47th Canadian Sport Awards will recognize athletes and sport-system leaders across seven different categories of achievement: the AthletesCAN Social Responsibility Award, the True Sport Award, #AthleteVoice Award: Rep of the Year, the Bruce Kidd Leadership Award, the Randy Starkman Award for Leadership in Sports Journalism, the Athlete Support Award, and the People’s Choice Award: Most Trending Moment of the Year. Detailed descriptions of all the awards and their eligibility criteria are available in the award guidelines package.
Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 PM PT on October 31, 2024. The finalists will be announced in early December 2024 and the winners of the awards will be announced at the Canadian Sport Awards the week of December 9.
About AthletesCAN
AthletesCAN, the association of Canada’s national team athletes, is the only fully independent and most inclusive athlete organization in the country and the first organization of its kind in the world. As the voice of over 6,000 current and recently retired Canadian national team athletes, AthletesCAN membership spans 68 sports across the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan/Parapan American, and Commonwealth Games, and those currently funded by Sport Canada competing at Senior World Championships.
AthletesCAN ensures an athlete-centered sport system by developing athlete leaders who influence sport policy and, as role models, inspire a strong sport culture, through educational resources, support, training and professional development.
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For more information, please contact:
Jacob Morris
Coordinator, Communications and Digital Media
AthletesCAN
613-526-4025 Ext. 224
[email protected]