Erin Seater was thrilled to be named Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School female athlete of the year in 2012.
She doubled her pleasure last week by winning the same award for 2013.
“It’s a big honour for me to get it two years in a row,” Seater said earlier this week. “It was a great thing for me to get and I know my mom was really proud. It’s a nice way to finish off my high school career.”
Seater, who next fall will attend the University of Calgary to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree and perhaps compete with the school’s triathlon club, played volleyball, basketball, handball, rugby and soccer and competed in track and field during her four years at Lindsay Thurber.
“I’m going to miss all the weekends in hotel, all of the trips with the different sports teams and how we got close as teammates. It was like one big family,” she said.
“I’ll also miss the coaches. Pretty much every coach had a different type of influence — a different type of impact — on me.”
The Lindsay Thurber male athlete of the year is convinced he’s a better person due to the coaching he received over the past four years.
“One (coach) in particular would be Dean Plant,” Spencer Yeats said of the Raiders rugby mentor. “He had a big influence on me. He coached me all four years and taught me a lot on and off the field.”
Yeats, a basketball, track and field, rugby, handball and football athlete during his time at Lindsay Thurber, has no immediate plans concerning post-secondary education, but would like to play rugby at a junior level and perhaps at a university level down the road.
Whatever transpires in his future, he’ll always be known as the 2013 Lindsay Thurber male athlete of the year.
“This means everything to me after playing four years of sports here,” said Yeats. “It’s the perfect way to finish my time at this school.”