SPORTS. The 39th edition of the Gala Sport-homage Desjardins saw the Shawinigan Cataractes crowned, for their first ever President’s Cup, and the Club de canotage de Shawinigan, for holding the National Canoe-Kayak Sprint Championships, as the Team par excellence and the Event par excellence at the interprovincial, Canadian or higher level.
Here is the list of the winners of this evening which took place at Espace Shawinigan on Saturday January 14th.
Quebec-level male athlete par excellence (team sport)
Esteban Dessureault – Baseball (Baseball Academy of Canada / St-Exupéry High School)
Quebec-level male athlete par excellence (individual sport)
Louis-Karl Ménard – Mountain bike and road bike (Dalbix and Équipe Vélo Mauricie)
Quebec-level female athlete par excellence (team sport)
Alice Boivin – Volleyball (Estacades Academy – Mauricie Attack)
Quebec-level female athlete par excellence (individual sport)
Gabrielle Hamel – Athletics / cross-country (Club Zénix de la Mauricie)
Outstanding Male Canadian Athlete (Team Sport)
Mavrik Bourque – Hockey (Shawinigan Cataracts)
Outstanding Male Canadian Athlete (Individual Sport)
Édouard Beaumier – Canoe-kayak (Trois-Rivières Canoe-Kayak Club)
Canadian level female athlete par excellence (team sport)
Alizée Gélinas – Baseball (Women’s ABC / Team Quebec Select)
Outstanding Female Canadian Athlete (Individual Sport)
Marie-Frédérique Poulin – Athletics (Zénix de la Mauricie – University of Delaware)
Outstanding Male Athlete of International Level
Mathias Guillemette – Track Cycling (National Track Endurance Team)
Outstanding female athlete of international level
Tammara Thibeault – Olympic Boxing (National Olympic Boxing Team)
Outstanding Senior Athlete
Patrice Doucet – Athletics (Milpat Mauricie)
Coach par excellence
Marc-Étienne Hubert – Hockey (UQTR Patriots)
Development Coach par excellence
Jacob Landry – Judo (Seikidôkan Judo Club)
relief official
Nalla Fall (basketball), Simon Grenier (futsal), Patrick Hubert (football) et Alexandra Proulx (soccer)
Outstanding Athlete with a Disability
Guillaume Bénard – Athletics (Milpat Mauricie)
Volunteer Team or Outstanding Volunteer
Claudette Bergeron – Broomball (Amigo Jr Broomball / Annual Amigo Jr Broomball Tournament)
Outstanding Minor Team
Trois-Rivières Soccer Club – U14 Women
Excellent team
Shawinigan Cataracts – Hockey
Event par excellence at the interprovincial, Canadian or higher level
National Canoe-Kayak Sprint Championships – Shawinigan Canoe Club
Event par excellence at regional, interregional or Quebec level
Bécancour Color Marathon – Running
Achievement of the year
Thomas Couture (Robin Hood in archery – an arrow in his own arrow)
Nicholas Berrouard (winner of the Le P’tit Train du Nord marathon)
Patrick Charlebois (Completed the Volcano Marathon in Chile)
Hats off to Christian Langevin
Presentation of the Montreal Alouettes training camp at Cégep de Trois-Rivières
Stage victory for Hugo Houle at the Tour de France
Anne Lemay for her gold medal at the World Mixed Curling Championship
Marc-Antoine Camirand for his season in Nascar
Marie-Eve Nault for her induction into the Quebec Soccer Hall of Fame
Memorial tribute
Pioneer School, L’Académie les Estacades and Saint-Joseph Seminary to highlight the presentation for 15 years of a provincial school championship
Trois-Rivières rugby club (Les Braves) for its 30th anniversary
Polycourons Terry Fox from La Découverte high school for its 40th anniversary
The Green Monster of the West Mosquito Baseball Tournament for its 50th anniversary
Alain Thibault for 50 years of arbitration
Tribute to missing persons
Jimmy Thompson, Michel Béliveau, André Trahan, Gilles Joubert, Jean Asselinl, Claude Huard and Jonathan Beaulieu-Richard
Heart stroke
AStypics
Elliott Gagnon
