The Ottawa Sports Awards board members for 2009 include the following individuals:
Doug Scorrar, Chair
Doug Scorrar is a distance runner and competed at a national level from 1963 to 1977. He was an 8-time National champion at both Junior and Senior competitions in distances ranging from one mile to marathon. Doug was also a member of 6 National teams in Track and Cross Country. He attended Ohio State University on a Track scholarship 1967 to 1970, and during that time, Doug won the 1968 Big Ten Conference Cross Country Championship. He qualified for the NCAA Championships on 4 occasions and held all of the distance records at Ohio State from 1 to 6 miles.
Beyond competition, Doug was a Sport Consultant at Sport Canada from 1980 to 1990. He worked with dozens of National Sport Associations to develop and implement national plans for coaching, national team development, officiating, marketing, volunteer recruitment, and sport participation.
Doug was a Member of the Board of Directors for the National Capital Marathon from 1988 to 2000, serving as Treasurer from 1992 to 1999 and Race Director in 2000. He worked with a very creative team to build the marathon from a modest, declining event of 1,000 runners to an event of 2,500 runners that was the showcase in a weekend of 8 races comprising 22,000 participants.
Doug has also coached distance runners who won Canadian National Championships at the collegiate and Athletics Canada level, as well as coaching high school track and cross country and House League hockey.
Barclay Frost
Barclay was born in Pembroke, Ontario, and moved to Ottawa at an early age. He developed a love of sports while quite young and dreamed of high jumping in the Olympics while in grade five.
Barclay played five sports a year for most of his high school years, playing football, volleyball, basketball, badminton and track and field. He set a high school record in the high jump, won top male athlete at Lisgar Collegiate, won the high school boy's singles event in badminton, played on 3 high school championship football teams and in 1961 was the Canadian Juvenile high jump champion. As a three time member of Team Ontario, he competed in three National Championships in the high jump, long jump, triple jump and the 4x100 relay, winning a bronze medal in the long jump.
Always interested in sports, Barclay worked during the summer months as a playground supervisor in Sandy Hill. He eventually became a "sports specialist" for the Ottawa Parks & Recreation Department. In this position, he organized summer sporting events for thousands of Ottawa children including the Summer Olympics, swim programs, city-wide softball leagues, playdays and field trips. A love of this experience working with children led Barclay to a 34 year teaching career in the Ottawa area. While teaching elementary grades, Barclay was always very active in the Athletic Associations serving as president, a convener of leagues and tournaments, and coaching as many school teams as time would allow. Outside of the school environment, he was an active coach in minor hockey, minor softball and track and field. Some of the athletes he has coached have gone on to play in the NHL while others have competed for Canada in the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics.
Barclay has always been a very active official. He has been a softball umpire doing all the local leagues and umpired a Canadian Armed Forces Championship. As a basketball referee, Barclay officiated high school, intermediate and senior leagues, and college and university games. He has been a registered track and field official since 1967 and has worked his way up the ranks to become a level 5 (international level) referee working in the high jump, pole vault, long jump and triple jump events. Along the way, he has done meets that included: the Canadian Junior and Senior Championships, 5 Canada Summer Games, The Ontario Games, Pan Am Juniors, Pan Am Games, Ottawa Citizen Indoor Games, World Junior and Senior Championships, Francophone Games and the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. Barclay has been the field referee at local high school meets for more than 30 years. He has also served as a jumps referee at many Ontario High School Championships.
Barc, as he is known to his friends, is a member of the Goulbourn Sports Wall of Fame and has received on Ontario Volunteers Award. In 2003, Barclay received The Ottawa Sports Award of Excellence-Lifetime Achievement Award for Technical Official. He was later asked to join the volunteer board which he as assisted as a Director since 2004.
Barclay keeps active playing golf, camping and officiating track meets in the summer while in the fall and winter months, he turns his attention to curling and playing goal in oldtimers hockey.
Mike Scott
Mike has been member of the Rideau Canoe Club Ottawa since 1949. He joined the club executive 1952 and served as Treasurer 1958 to 1960. In 1961 he became Commodore and served in this position until 1985. For 14 years, Mike enjoyed a successful stint at racing, then moved on to coach at the canoe club in 1960's. In 1980, helped the canoe club to open a new facility in conjunction with City of Ottawa and National Capital Commission.
Over the years, Mike has chaired 8 Canadian Championship regattas on Mooney's Bay in Ottawa, from 196l-1966, and again in 1969 and 1975. His broad coaching experience encompasses coaching visually impaired and Special Olympics dragon boat teams, minor hockey, boxing, and paddling.
As a competitor, Mike has run 10 marathons in Ottawa, New York and Buffalo, competed in hockey, football, cross country skiing, paddling, and amateur boxing, where he participated in the 1956 Olympic trials. In 1969 he helped found the Colonel By Triathlon (canoe, cycle, run) at the Rideau Canoe Club and served as Race Director from 1986-1991. He was also Race Director of the National Capital Triathlon, swim, cycle, run at the Rideau Canoe Club from 1987-1991.
Mike has also been quite involved in amateur boxing, and since 1975, has been a volunteer coach at the Beaver Boxing Club, and has served as Secretary there since 1996. He was coordinator of the 10-country Canada Cup Boxing Tournament held in Ottawa from 1992-1994.
Mike is currently Treasure of the Carleton Heights Residents (Nepean) Assoc. a post he has held since 1996. Following his retirement from a crown corporation in 1986, he managed Canadian Canoe Teams in Cuba, Italy and U.S.A. and was a volunteer at 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He also managed the Ontario Canoe Sprint Racing Spring Camps in Florida for 10 years.
Mike has received many accolades over the years, including the Associated Canadian Travelers (Now Ottawa Sports Awards) Sportsman of the Year 1971 and in 1986 he was inducted to the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Bob Wilson
Bob Wilson has been a director with the Ottawa Sports Awards since the event transitioned from the ACT Sportsman's Dinner in 2003. He is also an active member of the selection committee for the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame and the Greater Nepean Sports Wall of Fame.
Bob has an appointment to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and is the vice-president of the Nepean Museum and the South Nepean Autism Center. He has recently been elected as a Fellow with the Royal Canadian Geographic Society (RCGS) and enters his first term as a Governor with the RCGS.
A retired teacher, he has coached all school sports at the elementary and High School levels. Bob's sport has always been baseball, and he excelled as a pitcher with the Ottawa-Nepean Canadians.
Mike Davis
Mike joined the Board for the Ottawa Sport Awards in 2008 to provide some additional support in various communications activities. Mike brings over 12 years of marketing and communications expertise to the Board.
Most recently, Mike was a member of the Mission Team that accompanyed Team Canada to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India where he worked as a Press Attaché for our badminton, squash, shooting and rugby sevens teams. Mike was a volunteer with the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as lead for Access & Accreditation into Canada Olympic House. Additionally, Mike has rounded out his sport-related volunteer resume with roles on the Communications team at the 2009 Canada Summer Games in Charlottetown, PEI and on the Organizing Committee of 2008 Ontario Summer Games held here in Ottawa as the Director of the Opening Ceremonies.
Mike works full-time at the Manager of Web Communications for the Privy Council Office (PCO) in the Federal Public Service. Mike has spent over 12 years in the federal government in various Web communications and marketing and advertising positions. He has extensive experience in creating dynamic marketing and communications plans using Web, television, radio, and print.
Mike is an enthusiastic weekend warrior having completed the Ottawa Marathon in Ottawa in May 2010 and 2011, along with several half marathons and the odd local duathlon.
Lynne Bermel
Lynne has been on the Board for the Ottawa Sport Awards since 2007. With over 20 years experience in communications and marketing, Lynne provides support to the Board in a variety of roles.
Lynne is actively involved in promoting amateur sport in the Ottawa community. Also a member of the Board of Directors for the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame and a former committee member of the Ottawa Celebrity Sports Dinner, she writes a weekly amateur sports column for the Ottawa Sun and serves as a volunteer and race announcer for a number of local road races and triathlons. She was also the host of Rogers Televisions Sports Exclusive and Varsity Sports which showcased a variety of sports in the region.
She is a two-time winner of Canadian Long Distance Triathlete of the Year and was ranked among the best in the world in the sport in the mid 1990s. She is also a former recipient of the OSAs Triathete of the Year award.
Lynne is currently working as a consultant to the federal government. She also teaches a course in sports media for the School of Sport Business Management at Algonquin College.
Tom Casey
Sports always has been a focal point in the life of Tom Casey, who was born and raised in Hull but attended the University of Ottawa High School.
An avid softball and hockey player in his youth Tom launched a 39-year career with the Ottawa Citizen after he was cut by the Kitchener Rangers in 1966. While at the Citizen, he continued to play hockey for the Hull Mustangs and Pembroke Lumber Kings in the Central Junior A Hockey League. His early journalistic career centred on amateur sports, particularly high school events, and in 1976 after covering the Montreal Olympics, he became the beat writer for the Ottawa Rough Riders. In the off-season, he covered the Montreal Canadiens, the North American indoor track and field circuit and the NHL playoffs.
Casey moved on to become the paper's assistant sports editor in 1989 then the sports editor three years later. He also was part of the Southam News organizing team for three Olympic Games. He was named to the Football Writers of Canada Hall of Fame in 2004 and in 2009 he was named to the University of Ottawa football honour role.
Tom and his wife Adele, of 39 years, live in Orleans and are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters and four grandchildren. Tom continues to play hockey. Casey is also a member of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame selection committee.
