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June 6, 2013
Junior High Male Player of the Year - Brent Wareham, Markus Baker
Junior High Team of the Year - Clarenville Middle School Grade 9 Male, Presentation Junior High Grade 9 Female
Senior High Team of the Year - Mount Pearl Senior High Female, Clarenville Senior High Male
Robbie West Memorial Award – Male Senior High Player of the Year - Nathan Baker, Jordan Smith, Blake Power
Robbie West Memorial Award – Female Senior High Player of the Year - Catherine Ducey, Sarah Sheppard, Alison Poynter
Wayne Sheppard Memorial Award – Male Senior Player of the Year - Andrew Stephens, Brad Pitcher
Wayne Sheppard Memorial Award – Female Senior Player of the Year - Angela Peddle, Jillian Snow
Senior High Coach of the Year - Mark Rice, Paul Perry
Junior High Coach of the Year - Paul Power, Dion Piercey, Collette Frye-Pitt, George Dolomount
Western Community Development:Galaxy Volleyball – Nathan Wareham
Central Community Development: Leo Burke Volleyball – Chad Richards
Eastern Community Development: Tricentia Volleyball – Dion Piercey
Avalon Community Development: CBN Volleyball – Cathy Downey
Avalon Community Development: CBN Volleyball – Sheree Janes
Reg Soper Memorial Award - Karen Murphy
Paul Augot Memorial Award - Randy Manning
Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association 2013 Hall of Fame Inductee Bios
Peter Hickman
Peter has been passionately involved in the sport of volleyball since the age of 16 as a player and, since the age of 18, as a coach.
As a player, Peter represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the National Juvenile Championships in London, Ontario, the Canada Winter Games in Brandon, Manitoba, the National Junior Championships in Edmonton, the National Senior AA Championships in Saint John, the Atlantic Senior Championships in Halifax, the National Junior Championships in Fredericton, and the Atlantic Senior AA Championships in St. John’s.
Peter is a former member of both the Memorial and Dalhousie University Men’s Volleyball team. While playing with Dalhousie, he received a tournament all-star award at the Atlantic Senior AA Championship in St. John’s, and helped lead his team to the semi-finals in a CIAU Championship in 1984. As captain of the Dalhousie team, he proved to be a valuable asset as a player, as well as a mentor and motivator to his teammates.
Peter is a past member of Onca Senior AA, A, and B teams, and a current member of a C team. His continued commitment to Onca is obviously dependent on the NLVA creating a D,E, and F division.
Throughout his career as a player, Peter received recognition of many league and tournament all-stars, as well as playoff MVPs.
Peter first demonstrated his love of coaching in 1979 when he took responsibility for the Prince of Wales junior boys team and later the Onca Midget girls and the Onca Junior boys team in the mid to late 1980s. For a period of one year, he assumed the role of assistant coach of Memorial University Seahawk Men’s Volleyball team.
His commitment as a builder is still evident today. Peter has dedicated 12 years to coaching both his sons and nephews from junior high through high school. Student biographies taken from school yearbooks provide numerous references of gratitude to Coach Hickman. In addition, continuous requests from both students and parents for Peter to return each season as coach have touched him immensely.
His love for volleyball is demonstrated through his desire to pass his love for the sport onto Scott and Robert and all those he has coached, thereby ensuring the continued involvement of youth in volleyball.
Sandy Hickman
Sandy was introduced to volleyball in grade eight by his Physical Education teacher at Macpherson Junior High, Art Templeman. After playing on school teams through Grade 11 at Macpherson and Prince of Wales Collegiate, he was recruited to the YMCA team by Luke Stern in the fall of 1969 after the school season.
While failing to make the 1971 Canada Games team, Sandy played for the Y juniors and Y White teams through the spring of 1974, when he and several of the younger guys decided to form their own team. Then, in the fall of 1974, the Onca Volleyball Club was formed. Sandy went on to play with Onca Senior AA, A, B and now C teams right up to this year’s championships in Glenwood – 40 years of passion and excellence.
Along the way, he has been a part of numerous tournaments and 10 provincial championship teams, attained numerous all-star and other awards and participated in six Atlantic championships, three national Championships and invitationals in Quebec and Nova Scotia.
Sandy became interested in getting involved in all aspects of the delivery of the sport of volleyball at the age of 20 and started coaching in the inaugural season at the start of an Onca junior team. In Onca’s second season, a girls program was started with each coach taking a team. That continued for many years with Sandy coaching all levels of women’s teams and supporting some of the younger coaches coming up through. Sandy always had an interest in organization and administration and took on a lead role in running the club as secretary and treasurer and for several decades as club president.
He also was the lead in organizing invitational tournaments in the early years as Onca had its Fall Invitational and Spring Open. He also offered himself as secretary of the NVA in 1975. Sandy has always believed in the importance of public relations and its value in promoting the sport. He enjoyed writing press releases and reports many of which were used verbatim by the Evening Telegram and Daily News.
Sandy, along with Bill and Guy Bradbury, was the founder of the Molson Cup provincial league, something which he worked very hard at establishing and running over several seasons. The league started in the 1976-77 season, culminating with both Onca teams winning the inaugural championships. This was the first of Sandy’s four provincial all-star awards over the years. The league carried on for several more seasons in various forms and with various numbers of teams before evolving into a more St. John’s-based league. Sandy was involved in the executive of this for several years as well.
Sandy very proudly represented the NVA on the board of the Canadian Volleyball Association for 10 years ensuring that the province had a strong voice and pushed hard for benefits for Newfoundland and Labrador. He secured and chaired the 1981 National Juvenile Championships which was one of the best ever held in Canada.
He secured and chaired the 1983 exhibition match between Canada and Cuba men’s teams, which was one of the most impressive, competitive, athletic and hard-fought sport events ever in the province. Other Nationals, Eastern Canadians and Atlantic championships were chaired by Sandy or saw him as a key committee member while often playing and/or coaching.
Sandy also used his contacts from grad school at the University of Alberta to get involved in the 1983 Universiade in Edmonton. He was a competition site manager for volleyball and was able to play a key role in the on-site event.
Sandy coached both Memorial University varsity teams - the men’s team in the fall of 1981, and coached the women to second place in the AUAA Championships hosted by MUN in the 1982-83 season. He stepped back from coaching and heavy involvement in the sport in 1990 when his son was born. A second career was formed through coaching his children until 2011 at I.J Sampson and Gonzaga. Sandy concluded his coaching career by coaching his girls in the women’s senior A league in 2011-12.
Linda Murphy
Linda began coaching at Holy Heart High School in 1967 and became St. John’s High School Champions in 1968-69 and 1969-70. In 1969, Linda and the Holy Heart team also won the first Provincial High School Volleyball Championship for girls which was a six-team tournament held in Lewisporte.
In 1971, Linda moved on to coach the Guards until 1973, while also coaching at St. Augustine’s Jr. High. While coaching the Guards, Linda led them to be Provincial Champs in 1972-73 and also coached them at the Canadian Championships in Ottawa 1973-74.
In 1974, Linda was appointed the Coach of Canada Games held in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1975.
In 1976-77, Linda led Holy Heart Alumnae to win the Provincial Championships and, in 1977, also returned as coach of the Guards taking them to the Atlantic Championships at Acadia in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Linda became the St. John’s representative for the NLVA in 1968 and, in the following year, became the Newfoundland Women’s Athletics Committee representative also for the NLVA.
In 1985, Linda became the Parent Liaison for the 1987 Canada Games Women’s Volleyball Team coached by Sue Rendell, making this the second Canada Games cycle in which she was involved.
In 1997, Linda became a member of the NLVA Hall of Fame Selection Committee until 2005. Linda was also a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee from 2001-04.
Todd Martin
Todd began playing volleyball at Prince of Wales Collegiate (PWC), working under Coach Graham Horwood. In his final year of high school, PWC took the A High School Championships (Now 4A) in Grand Falls. Later, he also continued to play as part of a MUN Junior team, still under Graham Horwood as well as Venice Pizzeria and the legendary Razorbacks team.
Following high school, Todd began refereeing in the St. John’s high school leagues as well as coaching Juvenile Girls with the ONCA Club. Shortly afterwards, Todd joined the NVA Executive Committee as Secretary.
In 1982, Todd was hired as the first full-time staff person for the Provincial Volleyball Association. As Program Coordinator, he was responsible for all administrative as well as technical work of the association. Each year, he improved his own skills in coaching. Leaving the NLVA in 1989, he was a National Level Referee and a Level 3 Coach.
During those years, the association also made great strides as well. The number of Provincial Championships, as well as the number of teams participating, more than doubled.
Todd assumed the position of Volleyball Canada Director in 1990. He held this position until 1995 when he was elected President of the NLVA. He stayed in this position until 1998, when he was elected Vice President of Volleyball Canada.
Todd coached MUN Varsity teams on several occasions, leading the men in 1988-89, as well as working with the women’s team from 1994 to 2001, including two years as Head Coach. The other years he was assistant coach to Karen Murphy. During that time, the team was crowned as AUS Champions in 1999-2000.
Todd is proud of the fact that he has coached and refereed in every province in Canada with one small omission. He is hoping to soon referee in PEI to complete an outstanding achievement, spanning more than 35 years. At the Canada Games level, he was Head Coach for the 1989 Boys Team in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and assistant coach for the 1993 Girls Team in Kamloops, British Columbia. In 1985, he refereed at the Canada Games in St. John, New Brunswick.
Locally, Todd Chaired the Organizing Committee for the 1992 National Juvenile Championships, worked on several other National Championships in different roles. He was second referee in 1988 when Team Canada twice played the Hyundai team from Korea, and in 1989 in Gander when Team Canada Men took on the Lokomotive team from the USSR.
While serving with Volleyball Canada, Todd was appointed Technical Delegate for the 2000 World Junior Female Championships in Edmonton, was Technical Chair for two World League matches in Moncton and accompanied the National Men’s Team to the Americas Cup in Argentina. During that tournament, he was appointed Technical Chair for four matches, including one between Cuba and Brazil, ranked number two and three in the world at the time. He was also the Canadian Representative at the NORCECA Meetings in 2001 in Monterrey, Mexico.
Todd’s fondest memories have always been of the friendships he has made in his travels throughout the province, whether he was coaching, refereeing or conducting player camps or clinics in whatever was required. Todd has also had a small influence with most of the major sports in the province, as he worked as Games Coordinator for five different communities during the 1990s. In each of those communities, he was always involved with helping the local volleyball teams. He also worked as Manager for Sport Newfoundland and Labrador from 2000 to 2005.
Noel Lilly
Volleyball has been a part of Noel’s life since the spring of 1967 when he and his Bishop’s College teammates won the Provincial High School Championships. After high school, he attended Memorial University and played volleyball for five years under the mentorship of MUN coach Keith Taylor.
Following graduation from MUN, he went on to play Senior A volleyball for 13 years. The most successful team on which he played was Venice Pizzeria, which won several Provincial and St. John’s Molson Senior League Championships. He finished his playing career with Razorbacks in the Senior B division in 1990.
Noel began officiating in 1969. In the mid-1980s, he was part of a group of senior referees who formed an executive committee, on which he still serves, to re-establish a failing Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Board of officials, later to be known as the Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Officials Association. In 1995, he took over the position of Regional Officials Chair (ROC), which he held until 2003. He then served as NLVA Registrar from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, he once again assumed the position of ROC until he resigned from it in 2010.
Noel attained his National Official’s Certification in 1999. In 2003, he acquired his National Supervisor and Evaluator Certification. Over the last 15 years, he has refereed or been a Referee Supervisor/Evaluator at several Canadian Championships. His highlights as a referee are many, but his major achievements have been:
Noel has also been very busy as an official’s clinician, conducting Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 clinics around the province for approximately the last 20 years. As evidence of his dedication to volleyball officiating in the province, Noel has conducted clinics in Labrador City, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Hopedale, Port Hope Simpson, Englee, Roddickton, Corner Brook, Stephenville, Port aux Basques, Grand Falls-Windsor, Botwood, New-Wes-Valley, Clarenville and St. John’s.
Noel’s passion for volleyball has resulted in his being awarded the Paul Augot Memorial Award for Work and Dedication in Officiating in 1994 and 1999, and the Reg Soper Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Volleyball in 2010.
Hugh Harvey
For his work ethic, dedication, and invaluable contribution to officiating and the NLVA, and for his true love of the game, Hugh Harvey is elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association Hall of Fame.
Hugh started his career playing at Bishop Field College in 1965 while in Grade 8. He played during one year of high school at Bishops College in 1967. From 1968 to 1973, he played for the YMCA Junior and Senior Teams. After 1973, he played for various teams and was an original member of the infamous Razorbacks Team. It should also be noted that he was captain of the 1971 Winter Games Volleyball team.
Hugh became a provincial referee in 1970, a regional referee in 1977, and a national referee in 1988. He was an original executive member of what is now the NLVOA, which was created around 1980. He has been on that executive every year since. It should be noted that he was also treasurer of the NVCA from 1975 to 1979.
Hugh’s referee accomplishments include attending two Canada Games -1997 in Brandon and 2009 in Charlottetown. Starting in 1978, he has represented Newfoundland and Labrador as an official at numerous Canadian Championships, at various age divisions and all over Canada.
June 6, 2013
The following is being distributed at the request of Sport Newfoundland and Labrador:
Six Individuals to be Inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame
The Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association (NLVA) will host its
annual awards banquet and Hall of Fame Induction this weekend, in
conjunction with its Annual General Meeting taking place June 7-8 in St.
John’s.
The NLVA will also induct six recipients into its Hall of Fame in
builder/athlete category. Peter Hickman, Sandy Hickman, Hugh Harvey, Linda
Murphy, Todd Martin and Noel Lilly will be inducted into the NLVA Hall of
Fame Saturday evening at the Swilers Complex in St. John’s.
The finalists and Hall of Fame inductees bios are contained in the
backgrounder below.
For more information, please contact the NLVA at 709-576-0817.
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Media contacts:
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Russ Jackson Executive Director Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association 709-576-0817 |
BACKGROUNDER
Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association 2013 Awards Nominations
List
Junior High Male Player of the Year - Brent Wareham, Markus Baker
Junior High Team of the Year - Clarenville Middle School Grade 9 Male, Presentation Junior High Grade 9 Female
Senior High Team of the Year - Mount Pearl Senior High Female, Clarenville Senior High Male
Robbie West Memorial Award – Male Senior High Player of the Year - Nathan Baker, Jordan Smith, Blake Power
Robbie West Memorial Award – Female Senior High Player of the Year - Catherine Ducey, Sarah Sheppard, Alison Poynter
Wayne Sheppard Memorial Award – Male Senior Player of the Year - Andrew Stephens, Brad Pitcher
Wayne Sheppard Memorial Award – Female Senior Player of the Year - Angela Peddle, Jillian Snow
Senior High Coach of the Year - Mark Rice, Paul Perry
Junior High Coach of the Year - Paul Power, Dion Piercey, Collette Frye-Pitt, George Dolomount
Western Community Development:Galaxy Volleyball – Nathan Wareham
Central Community Development: Leo Burke Volleyball – Chad Richards
Eastern Community Development: Tricentia Volleyball – Dion Piercey
Avalon Community Development: CBN Volleyball – Cathy Downey
Avalon Community Development: CBN Volleyball – Sheree Janes
Reg Soper Memorial Award - Karen Murphy
Paul Augot Memorial Award - Randy Manning
Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association 2013 Hall of Fame Inductee Bios
Peter Hickman
Peter has been passionately involved in the sport of volleyball since the age of 16 as a player and, since the age of 18, as a coach.
As a player, Peter represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the National Juvenile Championships in London, Ontario, the Canada Winter Games in Brandon, Manitoba, the National Junior Championships in Edmonton, the National Senior AA Championships in Saint John, the Atlantic Senior Championships in Halifax, the National Junior Championships in Fredericton, and the Atlantic Senior AA Championships in St. John’s.
Peter is a former member of both the Memorial and Dalhousie University Men’s Volleyball team. While playing with Dalhousie, he received a tournament all-star award at the Atlantic Senior AA Championship in St. John’s, and helped lead his team to the semi-finals in a CIAU Championship in 1984. As captain of the Dalhousie team, he proved to be a valuable asset as a player, as well as a mentor and motivator to his teammates.
Peter is a past member of Onca Senior AA, A, and B teams, and a current member of a C team. His continued commitment to Onca is obviously dependent on the NLVA creating a D,E, and F division.
Throughout his career as a player, Peter received recognition of many league and tournament all-stars, as well as playoff MVPs.
Peter first demonstrated his love of coaching in 1979 when he took responsibility for the Prince of Wales junior boys team and later the Onca Midget girls and the Onca Junior boys team in the mid to late 1980s. For a period of one year, he assumed the role of assistant coach of Memorial University Seahawk Men’s Volleyball team.
His commitment as a builder is still evident today. Peter has dedicated 12 years to coaching both his sons and nephews from junior high through high school. Student biographies taken from school yearbooks provide numerous references of gratitude to Coach Hickman. In addition, continuous requests from both students and parents for Peter to return each season as coach have touched him immensely.
His love for volleyball is demonstrated through his desire to pass his love for the sport onto Scott and Robert and all those he has coached, thereby ensuring the continued involvement of youth in volleyball.
Sandy Hickman
Sandy was introduced to volleyball in grade eight by his Physical Education teacher at Macpherson Junior High, Art Templeman. After playing on school teams through Grade 11 at Macpherson and Prince of Wales Collegiate, he was recruited to the YMCA team by Luke Stern in the fall of 1969 after the school season.
While failing to make the 1971 Canada Games team, Sandy played for the Y juniors and Y White teams through the spring of 1974, when he and several of the younger guys decided to form their own team. Then, in the fall of 1974, the Onca Volleyball Club was formed. Sandy went on to play with Onca Senior AA, A, B and now C teams right up to this year’s championships in Glenwood – 40 years of passion and excellence.
Along the way, he has been a part of numerous tournaments and 10 provincial championship teams, attained numerous all-star and other awards and participated in six Atlantic championships, three national Championships and invitationals in Quebec and Nova Scotia.
Sandy became interested in getting involved in all aspects of the delivery of the sport of volleyball at the age of 20 and started coaching in the inaugural season at the start of an Onca junior team. In Onca’s second season, a girls program was started with each coach taking a team. That continued for many years with Sandy coaching all levels of women’s teams and supporting some of the younger coaches coming up through. Sandy always had an interest in organization and administration and took on a lead role in running the club as secretary and treasurer and for several decades as club president.
He also was the lead in organizing invitational tournaments in the early years as Onca had its Fall Invitational and Spring Open. He also offered himself as secretary of the NVA in 1975. Sandy has always believed in the importance of public relations and its value in promoting the sport. He enjoyed writing press releases and reports many of which were used verbatim by the Evening Telegram and Daily News.
Sandy, along with Bill and Guy Bradbury, was the founder of the Molson Cup provincial league, something which he worked very hard at establishing and running over several seasons. The league started in the 1976-77 season, culminating with both Onca teams winning the inaugural championships. This was the first of Sandy’s four provincial all-star awards over the years. The league carried on for several more seasons in various forms and with various numbers of teams before evolving into a more St. John’s-based league. Sandy was involved in the executive of this for several years as well.
Sandy very proudly represented the NVA on the board of the Canadian Volleyball Association for 10 years ensuring that the province had a strong voice and pushed hard for benefits for Newfoundland and Labrador. He secured and chaired the 1981 National Juvenile Championships which was one of the best ever held in Canada.
He secured and chaired the 1983 exhibition match between Canada and Cuba men’s teams, which was one of the most impressive, competitive, athletic and hard-fought sport events ever in the province. Other Nationals, Eastern Canadians and Atlantic championships were chaired by Sandy or saw him as a key committee member while often playing and/or coaching.
Sandy also used his contacts from grad school at the University of Alberta to get involved in the 1983 Universiade in Edmonton. He was a competition site manager for volleyball and was able to play a key role in the on-site event.
Sandy coached both Memorial University varsity teams - the men’s team in the fall of 1981, and coached the women to second place in the AUAA Championships hosted by MUN in the 1982-83 season. He stepped back from coaching and heavy involvement in the sport in 1990 when his son was born. A second career was formed through coaching his children until 2011 at I.J Sampson and Gonzaga. Sandy concluded his coaching career by coaching his girls in the women’s senior A league in 2011-12.
Linda Murphy
Linda began coaching at Holy Heart High School in 1967 and became St. John’s High School Champions in 1968-69 and 1969-70. In 1969, Linda and the Holy Heart team also won the first Provincial High School Volleyball Championship for girls which was a six-team tournament held in Lewisporte.
In 1971, Linda moved on to coach the Guards until 1973, while also coaching at St. Augustine’s Jr. High. While coaching the Guards, Linda led them to be Provincial Champs in 1972-73 and also coached them at the Canadian Championships in Ottawa 1973-74.
In 1974, Linda was appointed the Coach of Canada Games held in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1975.
In 1976-77, Linda led Holy Heart Alumnae to win the Provincial Championships and, in 1977, also returned as coach of the Guards taking them to the Atlantic Championships at Acadia in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Linda became the St. John’s representative for the NLVA in 1968 and, in the following year, became the Newfoundland Women’s Athletics Committee representative also for the NLVA.
In 1985, Linda became the Parent Liaison for the 1987 Canada Games Women’s Volleyball Team coached by Sue Rendell, making this the second Canada Games cycle in which she was involved.
In 1997, Linda became a member of the NLVA Hall of Fame Selection Committee until 2005. Linda was also a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee from 2001-04.
Todd Martin
Todd began playing volleyball at Prince of Wales Collegiate (PWC), working under Coach Graham Horwood. In his final year of high school, PWC took the A High School Championships (Now 4A) in Grand Falls. Later, he also continued to play as part of a MUN Junior team, still under Graham Horwood as well as Venice Pizzeria and the legendary Razorbacks team.
Following high school, Todd began refereeing in the St. John’s high school leagues as well as coaching Juvenile Girls with the ONCA Club. Shortly afterwards, Todd joined the NVA Executive Committee as Secretary.
In 1982, Todd was hired as the first full-time staff person for the Provincial Volleyball Association. As Program Coordinator, he was responsible for all administrative as well as technical work of the association. Each year, he improved his own skills in coaching. Leaving the NLVA in 1989, he was a National Level Referee and a Level 3 Coach.
During those years, the association also made great strides as well. The number of Provincial Championships, as well as the number of teams participating, more than doubled.
Todd assumed the position of Volleyball Canada Director in 1990. He held this position until 1995 when he was elected President of the NLVA. He stayed in this position until 1998, when he was elected Vice President of Volleyball Canada.
Todd coached MUN Varsity teams on several occasions, leading the men in 1988-89, as well as working with the women’s team from 1994 to 2001, including two years as Head Coach. The other years he was assistant coach to Karen Murphy. During that time, the team was crowned as AUS Champions in 1999-2000.
Todd is proud of the fact that he has coached and refereed in every province in Canada with one small omission. He is hoping to soon referee in PEI to complete an outstanding achievement, spanning more than 35 years. At the Canada Games level, he was Head Coach for the 1989 Boys Team in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and assistant coach for the 1993 Girls Team in Kamloops, British Columbia. In 1985, he refereed at the Canada Games in St. John, New Brunswick.
Locally, Todd Chaired the Organizing Committee for the 1992 National Juvenile Championships, worked on several other National Championships in different roles. He was second referee in 1988 when Team Canada twice played the Hyundai team from Korea, and in 1989 in Gander when Team Canada Men took on the Lokomotive team from the USSR.
While serving with Volleyball Canada, Todd was appointed Technical Delegate for the 2000 World Junior Female Championships in Edmonton, was Technical Chair for two World League matches in Moncton and accompanied the National Men’s Team to the Americas Cup in Argentina. During that tournament, he was appointed Technical Chair for four matches, including one between Cuba and Brazil, ranked number two and three in the world at the time. He was also the Canadian Representative at the NORCECA Meetings in 2001 in Monterrey, Mexico.
Todd’s fondest memories have always been of the friendships he has made in his travels throughout the province, whether he was coaching, refereeing or conducting player camps or clinics in whatever was required. Todd has also had a small influence with most of the major sports in the province, as he worked as Games Coordinator for five different communities during the 1990s. In each of those communities, he was always involved with helping the local volleyball teams. He also worked as Manager for Sport Newfoundland and Labrador from 2000 to 2005.
Noel Lilly
Volleyball has been a part of Noel’s life since the spring of 1967 when he and his Bishop’s College teammates won the Provincial High School Championships. After high school, he attended Memorial University and played volleyball for five years under the mentorship of MUN coach Keith Taylor.
Following graduation from MUN, he went on to play Senior A volleyball for 13 years. The most successful team on which he played was Venice Pizzeria, which won several Provincial and St. John’s Molson Senior League Championships. He finished his playing career with Razorbacks in the Senior B division in 1990.
Noel began officiating in 1969. In the mid-1980s, he was part of a group of senior referees who formed an executive committee, on which he still serves, to re-establish a failing Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Board of officials, later to be known as the Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Officials Association. In 1995, he took over the position of Regional Officials Chair (ROC), which he held until 2003. He then served as NLVA Registrar from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, he once again assumed the position of ROC until he resigned from it in 2010.
Noel attained his National Official’s Certification in 1999. In 2003, he acquired his National Supervisor and Evaluator Certification. Over the last 15 years, he has refereed or been a Referee Supervisor/Evaluator at several Canadian Championships. His highlights as a referee are many, but his major achievements have been:
- Selected to be First Referee for the Male Championship Match at the Juvenile National Championships in 1999 in St. John’s;
- Selected to be First Referee for the Female Championship Match, Division 1, Tier 1 at 18U National Championships in 2001 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;
- Selected to referee at the Canadian College Athletic Association Female Championships in 2000 in Grand Prairie, Alberta;
- Selected to referee at Canada Summer Games in 2001 in London, Ontario and in 20099 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; and,
- Refereed AUS Female Championships in 2013 in St. John’s.
Noel has also been very busy as an official’s clinician, conducting Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 clinics around the province for approximately the last 20 years. As evidence of his dedication to volleyball officiating in the province, Noel has conducted clinics in Labrador City, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Hopedale, Port Hope Simpson, Englee, Roddickton, Corner Brook, Stephenville, Port aux Basques, Grand Falls-Windsor, Botwood, New-Wes-Valley, Clarenville and St. John’s.
Noel’s passion for volleyball has resulted in his being awarded the Paul Augot Memorial Award for Work and Dedication in Officiating in 1994 and 1999, and the Reg Soper Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Volleyball in 2010.
Hugh Harvey
For his work ethic, dedication, and invaluable contribution to officiating and the NLVA, and for his true love of the game, Hugh Harvey is elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador Volleyball Association Hall of Fame.
Hugh started his career playing at Bishop Field College in 1965 while in Grade 8. He played during one year of high school at Bishops College in 1967. From 1968 to 1973, he played for the YMCA Junior and Senior Teams. After 1973, he played for various teams and was an original member of the infamous Razorbacks Team. It should also be noted that he was captain of the 1971 Winter Games Volleyball team.
Hugh became a provincial referee in 1970, a regional referee in 1977, and a national referee in 1988. He was an original executive member of what is now the NLVOA, which was created around 1980. He has been on that executive every year since. It should be noted that he was also treasurer of the NVCA from 1975 to 1979.
Hugh’s referee accomplishments include attending two Canada Games -1997 in Brandon and 2009 in Charlottetown. Starting in 1978, he has represented Newfoundland and Labrador as an official at numerous Canadian Championships, at various age divisions and all over Canada.
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