Press Release 2014 Sportsmanship Awards Banquet The New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association hosted its 9th Annual Sportsmanship Awards Banquet on Tuesday, May 13th at St. Thomas University in Rigby Hall in Fredericton. Twenty three student athletes (listed below) from the NBIAA’s four conferences received the Raymond Légère Sportsmanship Awards. These students have shown outstanding qualities of sportsmanship throughout the school year while participating in NBIAA sports.   The top two, one male and one female, in each school category, will receive the William S. Ritchie Sportsmanship Award.   The William S. Ritchie Sportsmanship Award winners were: (photo from left to right)   AAA Boys Jonah McGrath – Miramichi Valley High School   A Girls Alexa Stack Mills – Minto Memorial High School   AA Boys Brodie Theriault – Bonar Law Memorial High School   AA Girls Diedre Alexander – Woodstock High School   A Boys Jacob McLean – Hartland Community School   AAA Girls Sydney MacDonald – Miramichi Valley High School   Emery Johnson Memorial Award   This award goes to the Most Sportsmanlike Coach of the Year. This award is named after Emery Johnson, the former athletic director of Dalhousie Regional High School and the NBIAA Executive Committee, who passed away in November 2003.   The Emery Johnson Memorial Award was presented to Steve Crandelmere of Canterbury High School at the Sportsmanship Banquet by the NBIAA President, Yvan Arseneault.   School Sportsmanship of the Year Awards   The New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association has introduced the 1st Annual School Sportsmanship of the Year Awards for 2014. This award aims to recognize a school, whose athletes, coaches and fans promote what sportsmanship is all about in every aspect of high school athletics.   The following schools were honored for their accomplishments at the NBIAA Sportsmanship Banquet: Hartland Community School - Western Conference École Régionale de Baie-Sainte-Anne - Northern Conference