The Yorkton United Football Club hosted its annual banquet and awards ceremony on Saturday, Mar. 11 at the Gallagher Centre.
There were approximately 230 guests, including soccer players, family members, coaches and more.
This year’s guest speaker was Brett Levis of the Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club.
Levis is from Saskatoon. He played for the University of Saskatchewan soccer team before going on to join the Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
Levis was there to present the Yorkton players with awards throughout the night.
Award winners were as followed:
Top scorers
U12/14 boys league – overall: Cole Looft. U12 boys - Logan Westvelt. U12/14 girls league – overall: Samantha Thompson. U12 girls - Angela Fetsch. Men’s – overall: Steven DeLong. Masters - Sam Mccombs. U16 - Nick Fetsch. U18 - Austin Thomas.
Other awards
The most improved award, sportsmanship award and Grafter award went to the following athletes, awards in order listed above:
U8 boys: Alex Grela and Reed Smith, Cayman Leik and Cashel McDowerll, Reece Heiser and Seth Malcolm. U8 girls: Chelsea Lawson, Mikayla Molnar, Halle Bennett. U9 boys: Jude Trost, Aidan Grela, Keaton Halyk. U10 boys: Jaxon Witherspoon, Kayden Molnar, Dexter Candillo.U10 girls: Rhyen Clifford, Addisyn Jakubiec, Willow Krawetz. U11 boys: Xander Thompson, Tishen Eburne, Noah Wyatt. U12 boys: Simon Hartman, Kale McManus, Lucas Clarkson. U12 girls: Kyra Pelly, Jaya Code, Kirsi Kitch. U14 boys: Brady Van Someren, Ievgen Lavrentiev, Keane Szabo/Brett Switzer. U14 girls:
Jennifer Ames, Maddison Stevenson/Tatum Borys, Brianna Clarkson. U16 boys: Amogh Tripathy, Kaleb Weinheimer, Dawson Malinowski. U16-18 girls: Ashley Schrader, Leía Zulyniak, Alison Berge.
Athletes of the year
The criteria for these awards were fairly straight forward. It involved things like commitment to soccer, volunteer work with the club, personal accomplishments and team accomplishments. Other factors like time with the club and soccer outside the club were taken into account.
The male athlete of the year was Austin Thomas.
The female athlete of the year was Alison Berge.
