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OFSAA "Pete Beach" Award

The Pete Beach Award is presented annually to one person in each Association who exemplifies the qualities of Pete Beach, a former Executive Director of OFSAA. Pete dedicated his life to sport and to helping others achieve their full potential. Under his leadership, OFSAA expanded from seven to fifteen Associations, and from 330 to 580 schools

A recipient of the Pete Beach Award should exemplify the same dedication, spirit and love of sport that made Pete Beach such a success in both his professional and private life. He worked tirelessly to help young people both within the school system and also within the community.

As the certificate states, "On view of the complexity of the developmental process, it is a rare educator indeed who has the capability to utilize the medium of school sport in such a way as to positively and sufficiently influence students in the remainder of their lives. That eduactor is one who consistently provides an impression of stability and optimism; one who enjoys the company and respect of young people; one who embodies, and inculcates by example, the highest traditions of the sportsperson; one who best typifies the true function of the teacher-coach - a source of discipline, a mentor, and a friend".

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