Presented annually to the New Tecumseth Ball Hockey League youth player who has brought distinction to the sport through outstanding individual athletic achievement, and who best exemplifies excellence in leadership, character, sportsmanship, and selfless contribution to the league.
“Strength and Courage to Live Strong”
Players in their final year of minor league competition are eligible to be selected. Winners will be presented with a plaque along with $1,000 for post secondary education courtesy of the Kevin Lord Memorial Foundation.
Photos from the 2004 Junior World Championships
Martin, Slovakia
Kevin’s National and World Championship accomplishments.
All in the U20 division when there were no U16, U18 divisions. There was only Men’s and Junior (U20) Divisons.
In the 2002 Nationals he was only 16, the youngest player on the team, playing with U20 players and they won gold. In 2004 he competed at the World Juniors (U20) in Slovakia at the age of 16. He was later selected to be captain of the 2006 World Junior team, but passed away just two months before. Even after his terminal brain cancer surgery he still recovered and got in shape enough to play in the 2005 Junior Nationals (U20) and even the Men’s Nationals and then only 8 months later losing his year long battle with brain cancer.
Presentation
(July 26, 2006)
Please join us in honoring one of the best players to have ever come through our ball hockey community, Kevin Allan Lord.
Kevin started in our minor system at the age of 12 and was an integral part of each team he played on. His commitment to excellence and his drive to succeed was second to none, something he also tried to instil in the young kids he would later help coach and befriend. Kevin became a great player and one of our brightest stars, representing us at provincials and later representing Canada as a member of the National Junior Team .
As our ball hockey community is very close it is with great pleasure that you are all invited to the Beeton Arena at 9:30 on Thursday July 27th as the executive of the OBHA and the Canadian Ball Hockey Association present to Kevin’s parents, Al and Judy, Kevin's Team Canada # 86 sweater that he was to wear at the 2006 World Junior championships in Italy this past June.
We look forward to seeing you all there and celebrate with us the greatness and humility that was and will always be
Kevin Lord "Lordsy"
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