On March 17, 2022 we celebrated with Athletics Alberta as they honoured their membership – athletes, officials and coaches. They showcased our athletes’ achievements in 2021. It wasn’t quite a normal year but we did our best and these athletes certainly gave great performances in 2021.
CALTAF was incredibly well-represented at these awards and we are so proud of all of our coaches, athletes and volunteers.
The virtual event was co-hosted by none other than our very own Paula McKenzie. Paula is an Athletics Alberta board member and helped write the current AA awards policy. Paula is a coach, athlete, and CALTAF club administrator. Thank you Paula!
And here are our amazing CALTAF winners and nominees from the evening:
U16 Male
Jett Hasiuk, formerly of Caltaf!
Jett ended the 2021 season ranked 1st in the Province in the 800m running 2:05.14.
U18 Female
The finalists were:
Chloe Turner, CALTAF and Amy Candrlic, CALTAF
And the winner is … Chloe Turner!
Chloe had an outstanding year in her first outdoor season. She ended the season ranked #1 in Canada in the Mile, and #2 in both the 1500m and 3000m.
Female U20
Ella Clayton, CALTAF
Jinaye Shomachuk, CALTAF
And the winner is … Ella Clayton! Ella was named to Team Canada and participated in the World Juniors in Kenya. Throughout the meet she kept working her way through the heats and earned her spot into the Final. In the 400m Final, she ended up placing 6th in the World and ended her season with another Personal Best. To be able to perform like that only means that she has a very bright future in our sport. Congratulations Ella.
U20 Male nominee:
Tom Drysdall, CALTAF
Senior Female nominee:
Rachel Andres, CALTAF
Top 10 U10 Male
Ryker Stewart, CALTAF
Joshua McLean, CALTAF
Isaiah Hiebert, CALTAF
Uyi Ehirhieme, CALTAF
Fraser McLean CALTAF
Cameron Hendrick, CALTAF
Hudson Laidlaw, CALTAF
Ilyas Hoffman, CALTAF
Top 10 U10 Female
Ellie Toth, CALTAF
Vera Swanson, CALTAF
Taylor Cribbie, CALTAF
Avery Dillabaugh, CALTAF
Emily Panich, CALTAF
Charlotte Pono, CALTAF
Sévana Larocque, CALTAF
Top 10 U12 Male
Bennett Stearns, CALTAF
Logan Avey, (AV) CALTAF
Reid Mitchell, CALTAF
Max-Ellis Vargas-Lennard, CALTAF
Noah Cataniag, (Cat-a-knee ag) CALTAF
Fraser Warne, CALTAF
Nolan (Veld-hone) Veldhoen, CALTAF
Top 10 U12 Girls
Katie Kavanagh, CALTAF
Audrey Ferguson, CALTAF
Charlotte Smithanik, CALTAF
Top 10 U14 Boys
Ephrem Fischer, CALTAF
Odin Ward, CALTAF
Calder Murray, CALTAF
Top 10 U14 Female
Kamsi Boghean, CALTAF
Sadie Snyder, CALTAF
Bromley Causton, CALTAF
Female Para Athlete
Sarah Mickey of CALTAF
— a woman who set two new personal bests in the 2021 season, setting new marks in both discus (23.47 metres) and shot put (6.98 metres). Sarah finished 6th at the Tokyo Paralympics in Discus
Top 10 U10 XC Female
Aspen Boire, CALTAF
Ella Forma, CALTAF
Lilian Vantura, CALTAF
Top 10 U10 XC Male
Andrew McMorris, CALTAF
Fabian Vataman, CALTAF
Matthew Jarman, CALTAF
Evan Sharpe, CALTAF
Top 10 U12 XC Female
Katie Kavanagh, CALTAF
Noelle Pols, CALTAF
Imogen Stevenson, CALTAF
Top 10 U12 XC Male
Charlie Galbraith, CALTAF
Fraser Warne, CALTAF
Lachlan Macphie, CALTAF
Top 10 U14 XC Female
Bromley Causton, CALTAF
Top 10 U14 XC Male
Ephrem Fischer, CALTAF
Calder Murray, CALTAF
U16 XC Female
Kate Hos, CALTAF
Kate is a newcomer to our sport. She comes with a love for the sport already as both her parents were runners. She joined Caltaf after her school season and has never missed a workout since. She is continuously improving and displayed that work ethic at Cross Country Provincials where she won the U16 race. There is definitely more to come from this young lady and we can look forward to more outstanding results in the future.
U18 XC Female
Chloe Turner — Tied at first for the U18 XC females.
This past Cross Country season Chloe was undefeated during the High School season and capped off the year as the High School City Champion, High School Provincial Champion and at Nationals she placed 6th.
High Performance Coach of the Year
The recipient of this year’s High Performance coach of the year is a gem to para and able-bodied athletes alike.
Kim Cousins!
Kim has been a high-performance trailblazer in the sport of track and field over her 20 year career with Caltaf. Kim has been a Coach with Caltaf since the early 2000’s and has developed athletes from beginner all the way through to the Olympic and Paralympics in both winter and summer. she has coached on many able body National, International, and Olympic teams and Paralympic teams throughout her career and in 2021 had three athletes competing at the Paralympics in japan. Kim not only has developed high performance athletes, but also high performance people who continue to contribute to the athletics community outside their events. Congratulations, Kim!
And congratulations to all of our amazing winners, nominees, athletes, coaches and volunteers. We are so looking forward to what comes next!
