Tournaments like Seaquam’s Pink Ribbon for Camille raise awareness, money, and provide history lessons about their communities, and they’re back with the high school-allowed competition after being in practice-only mode last year.
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The return of competition in high school sports this year means tribute tournaments like Seaquam’s Pink Ribbon for Camille girls volleyball are also back.
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Pink Ribbon, which ran October 15-16 at North Delta School, greets Camille Gregory, a former Seaquam volleyball player who died in 2012 after a battle with skin cancer. She was 23 years old.
Gregory was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2009. He was adamant about finishing his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and received it from the University of British Columbia in a private ceremony just four days before he died.
All Seaquam tournament players receive Pink Ribbon for Camille socks.
There are tournaments with messages in all the sports distributed by the province every weekend of the school year. They generate awareness. Sometimes they raise money. They help tell the story of their schools and communities.
They were sorely missed when school sports were in practice mode last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. It is important to have them back.
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“More than anything it’s a reminder that life is short,” Todd Clarke, who was Gregory’s coach at Seaquam and is now an assistant coach with a program there, said of Pink Ribbon. “Sometimes we take sports like volleyball too seriously when, in general, we all have bigger problems to deal with. It is a reminder for students to enjoy what they are doing and to be in the moment. We don’t know what life will bring us tomorrow.
“It is also a reminder that we are all affected by cancer. We all have friends and family who fight this disease day after day. Cancer doesn’t care if you are young or old.
“Camille was an amazing person. He was like all the kids who played in this year’s tournament: working hard and having fun. I think about her often and especially how close coaches get to their players and then fly away, and you work with new guys. It’s a crazy cycle, but I’ve appreciated it with the players over the years. It’s the best part of coaching: relationships. These kids are much more to their coaches than just volleyball players. Camille reminds me of that. “
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Girls basketball Riverside Rapids hosts a tournament for Emily , which is in memory of Emily Inglis, who lost her life to cancer at age 12.
“We raised money and raised awareness for 13 years in a row. COVID stopped the streak, ”said Paul Langford, Rapids coach based in Port Coquitlam. “We put the children on the floor and raise awareness that some children do not make it to secondary school. Emily died in high school.
“One of the difficult things for me is that high school kids don’t get a year back for sports, like they do in the NCAA or U Sport. All these children lost a year. “
the No regrets basketball tournament He’s also planning on returning next season at various North Shore gyms.
No Regret was the mantra of Quinn Keast, who was the captain of the team and one of the key players for the North Vancouver Handsworth Royals, which won the 2006 Triple-A championship. She died that June when she was hit by a transit bus on her way to a graduation celebration. I was 18 years old.
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“The organizing committee and the Quinn Keast Foundation will do their best to create a memorable tournament experience for student-athletes and their supporters within current COVID-related restrictions. We try to make our tournament a great experience for student athletes because we know how important extracurricular events are as part of the high school experience, ”reads a No Regrets press release regarding his pending return.
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