From The Daily Gleaner, Frederickton
Fredericton’s Bob Stanton continues to rack up the honours when it comes to softball officating.
Stanton, who is the director of officating for the International Softball Federation, was recently presented with the Fox 40 Kitch MacPherson Award of Excellence.
The Award, named in honour of the former Hamilton, Ont. basketball official, was presented to Stanton as the Sports Official Canada and Fox 40 International Inc. annual national officating conference in Mississauga, Ont.
Stanton, a 27-year veteran official and technical administrator, has worked at a multitude of provincial and national championships beginning with the 1985 Canada Summer Games in Saint John and the 1999 and 2007 Pan American Games, the world junior men’s championship in 2008 and was umpire in chief at the 2009 Bejing Olympic Games and World Youth Cup in Prague.
He was named Softball Canada’s Umpire of the Year in 1998 and 2008 and was inducted into the Softball New Brunswick Hall of Fame in 2008. He was appointed to the ISF post last year as well.
Meanwhile, a number of Region 3 individuals among the recipients of recognition awards presented by Softball New Brunswick recently.
Rick Russell of Fredericton was named official of the year while Brent Evans of Fredericton was presented the Paul Dawson Volunteer Award. Oromocto’s Barry Adams was named the most dedicated official of the year. Dairy Queen was presented with the Corporate Award.
Given the President’s Shield were Wayne Brown and Sandra Allan. Brown was formerly involved with the ISF while Allan achieved her Level IV umpires’ certificate and umpired at two Canadian championships during the past summer schedule.