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On Sunday 6th December the Bucs held their annual End of Season Presentation at Chorley FC. This was the 4th year running now that the Bucs have held their presentation at Chorley FC and just like the previous years, more than 85 people attended to celebrate the clubs hard work in 2009.
The presentation started with Club Manager Ian Nicolson giving everyone a quick run down of how 2009 has been for the Bucs and each teams achievements before handing over to the Cadet coaches Head Coach Lee Taylor and Offensive Coordinator Andrew Wilson to present their awards.
The Cadet award winners were:
Rookie of the year: Andrew Carr for his constant commitment and hard work throughout his first competitive year at the Bucs.
Most Improved: Stefan Collins for his constant improvement in his catching all year.
Offensive Player of the year: Dominic Wilson for his great attitude and flexibility of playing out of position most the season but just doing the job at hand.
Defensive Player of the year: James Schofield for making tackles all over the field and never giving up on a play.
Players Player: James Schofield
Coaches Player: Zach Christie for a great effort in his rookie year at an extremely demanding position.
All of the cadets players & coaches were then presented with a medal for reaching the National Finals this year.
The Junior Flag awards were next presented by Head Coach Lawrence Quinn with assistance from Ian as unfortunately the Defensive Coach Ste Czarnecki could not attend the event. Coach Quinn gave a short run down of the year he had coaching the Junior Flag team for the first time and then presented them with their medals and awards.
The Junior Flag winners were:
Rookie of the year: Matt Holt for his superb efforts all year
Most Improved: Derry Holt for not only improving on his football skills throughout the year but also for improving his fitness.
Offensive Player of the year: Matt Holt again for his superb effort in every game on Offense.
Defensive Player of the year: Will Powley for a superb year on defense especially as a rookie.
Players Player: Derry Holt
Players Player: Jonny Tickle
Coaches Player: Jonny Tickle for a superb attitude & effort throughout the whole year on and off the field.
After all the Junior Flag awards had been presented it was time to tuck in the buffet and then have the raffle. This year so many parents contributed to the raffle and special thanks must go out to them, as well as American Football suppliers Football America UK, and American Sports UK.
The awards then continued with the Junior Kitted awards presented by Head Coach Ian Nicolson and Offensive Coordinator Greg Adam.
The Junior Kitted award winners were:
Rookie of the year: Rachel Hull for her outstanding job at QB all year.
Most Improved: Mark Balcombe for constantly improving on his tackling all year and becoming one of the best defensive players on the team.
Offensive Player of the year: Joe Bentley for putting in a great performance in every game at running back especially the National Finals.
Defensive Player of the year: Mike Frayne for being a great captain for the D and leading by example in every game this year.
Players Player: Ryan Morton
Coaches Player: Ryan Morton for doing a great job at Center all year and putting in 100% at every training session and every game.
Coaches Player: Jake Hodgkinson for showing such heart in making a comeback after such a horrific injury in 2008, as well as being a constant key player this season.
Ian then handed out medals to all the players and coaches for finished 3rd in the National Finals and then he also had a special award calling it the Iron Woman Award, and presented Rachel Hull with a printed T shirt for showing such guts this year never complaining about the big hits that she has taken throughout the season both in training and during games.
Just when the Ian thought that the kitted awards were done, Jake Hodgkinson along with fellow captains Ryan and Mike made a little speech thanking firstly Kim & Jenny the partners of Ian & Greg, for putting up with all the Bucs stuff they do at home and presented them with flowers. They then proceeded to thank Ian & Greg with a specially made T shirt & bottle of champagne each, leaving both coaches quite speechless.
The last awards to be given on for the evening were some special awards to the following people:
The Hull, McGovern, Balcombe, and Hodgkinson family for the constant support of the Bucs over the past few years.
The Morton family for the superb generosity towards the Bucs this year.
The Quinn family for everything they do for the Bucs every year without ever being asked to.
Mark Holt for wanting to be more involved with the club and helping out where ever possible.
Colin Mather for all his financial support towards the Buccaneers this year.
Christine & Chorley FC for all their hard work in ensuring that the Bucs had a great presentation.
The evening then finished with Ian making some announcements about next season and thanking everyone for attending and celebrating all of the Bucs hard work throughout 2009.
The Chorley Buccaneers would also like to thank Readeys Trophies for once again supplying some great medals and trophies for all the players and coaches. |
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