Volunteer of the Year Award – Fort McMurray Minor Hockey

One recipient will be chosen from nominated volunteers who are considered to have made an outstanding contribution to FMMHA for the current season. The nominee may have participated in special events, general administration chores, support the Angel Hours or a variety of other roles. The recipient will have dedicated a significant amount of hours and leadership in growing minor hockey for our community.

Nomination Deadline

May 18, 2022

Eligibility Criteria

Nominee Must:

Volunteered for a minimum of 40 hours in the last Minor Hockey season
Must have followed all FMMHA governing directives with budget, fundraising and branding in their role.
Must have strived to improve our organization by emphasizing the philosophy to "create positive opportunities and experiences FOR ALL PLAYERS through innovative leadership and exceptional service.”

Selection Procedure

Executive Board vote on all nominations that meet the above criteria based on the nomination and alignment with FMMHA philosophy's

Nomination Form: 2020-21 2019-20

Nomination Form:

Volunteer of the year Nomination Form:

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I am nominating as a Member in good standing with FMMHA as a:

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Please describe some of the Volunteer activities this Volunteer has taken on this past season, approximately how many hours would you say they put into our organization

How would you describe this person in meeting our Philosophy to "create positive opportunities and experiences FOR ALL PLAYERS through innovative leadership and exceptional service" ?

Is there any other details the committee should know about this persons passion for our organization

Please attach any supporting pictures that can be used for the website should this nominee be selected

2020-21

The 2020 - 2021 Volunteer of the year -

Executive/Director is Awarded to Shane Chapman!
General Volunteer is Awarded to Luana Donahue!

Volunteer of the year - General Volunteer

As a mom to four players in our association you can find Luana engaged in helping out in so many different roles from picking up tasks to help out their team managers to putting in numerous hours for evaluations on data entry. In the 2020-21 season, After completing the 20 required hours for her 4 children she continued on to cover for some no show shifts, Just to help. She then saw that her youngest child's team needed some help on the ice, so she learned how to skate, took the required certifications and stepped out on the ice. No job is too big or too small for this GEM who just keeps on giving to FMMHA.

“This woman got on the ice every ice time with no hockey experience let alone she barely knew how to skate, she has inspired us so much. She was an amazing coach on the ice with the kids and was such a great value to the team as a whole!” from nomination form

Volunteer of the year - Executive/Director

In Addition to being an active coach for FMMHA for many years. Shane is currently the Elite Division director, after serving 4 years as Goalie director for FMMHA, also the first Goalie director Shane really stepped up to the plate to develop a fair Goaltending evaluation process, a voice for Goalie parents to air their frustrations, and an experienced advisor to help division directors place goaltenders on correct teams after evaluations.

“A prime example of what Shane does for all our Kids and always goes above and beyond is when we had no Goaltender interested for our U11 female team. Shane signed out some gear from our equipment director, went to the U11 female practices with this gear and had kids try on gear - he was determined to help find a player interested in the position and he was a success. He is always bringing new ideas to the executive to grow goaltender development and really pushed for investment into our intro to Goalie programs that will align with the intro to hockey program” from nomination form

2019-20

The 2019 - 2020 Volunteer of the year is awarded to Paula Bolt!

Paula is currently the Treasurer of Special Events for FMMHA. She volunteered 2 years ago as the Minor Hockey Week Treasurer and participated in all special events. Paula’s contributions and leadership to each event morphed into the special events treasurer role. During the 2019-2020 season, Paula has been an inspiration showing us what it truly is to go above and beyond as a volunteer in our organization. She was recognized for the countless hours she puts in supporting the event Chairs to make them a success and the selflessness and teamwork it takes to run events in the organization.

“She is always willing to roll up her sleeves and help. I calculated that Paula covered more than 40 Hours of selling 50/50 tickets and at Least 20 more working tournament rooms when we could not get volunteers. In short she will do whatever it takes to make sure these events are covered.”

From her Nomination Form