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Westside FC Red Devils Report That Kelli Has Gone On Ahead to Set Up Camp

The amazing Kelli Glass passed away at 6:15 pm on Christmas Eve. Feisty and full of life, Kelli remained ever positive, happy within herself, and so strong as she went about her cancer battle, not letting it get in the way of living every magical day to its fullest. She will be desperately missed. Check back in the coming weeks for a full page tribute to this cherished club founder.

Kelli Oct 4 2009

Welcome Three New Club Directors + Thank You Katey and Doug!
Many thanks to outgoing Directors Doug Johnston and Katey Grist and welcome to new Directors Rob Dressel (who also served during the 90's), Ashley McGhee and Amélie Mercier elected at the recent AGM.

Special thanks is due both Katey and Doug. Katey spent 3 years as a Director and championed the Annual Awards Banquet each of those 3 years and provided an invaluable legal perspective as the Westside Football Club Scholarship Trust was introduced.

Doug Johnston was absolutely tireless during 26 years of continuous service to the club. Doug served on the club executive for the past 11 years and championed the Kids Help Phone Youth Soccer Jamboree for the last 10 of those. Doug coached Westside teams for over 20 years. He was first recruited by his younger brothers to take the helm when the club won promotion to the VMSL premiership for the 1983-84 season. He picked up 3 Provincial Championships and 2 National Championships along the way. After a well deserved year off in 1997-98, Doug was recruited to start a new womens U21 program. In 2002-03 Doug took the helm of the womens premier team upon the retirement of their inaugural coach. When the mens team was unfortunately relegated in 2005-06, Doug was brought back to the mens side to successfully reclaim a premiership berth on the first try and stay on to keep the team up in their first year back before once again hanging them up. For how long, we'll see!

Westside FC Shooters Take Bronze Medal at World Masters Games in Australia

The Westside FC Shooters competed at the World Masters Games in Sydney, Australia this October with a team consisting mostly of Westside FC Shooters but bolstered by friends from Semiahmoo, Wickham, Surrey and Calgary. 20 teams were entered in the women’s competitive 30-35 age division from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and Guam. The tournament entailed 7 games in 7 days with the Shooters going 3 and 1 in the round robin phase. The quarters, the semis and the medal game all took place within a 28 hour period! In the quarterfinal match vs. the Rebels (of Ontario) the shooters prevailed 1-0, before losing 0-1 later that same afternoon to the Oregon Brew in the semis. The Shooters were victorious in the Bronze medal match the next morning vs. Southern United (of Australia) winning 2-1 on goals from Sophie Dhanani and Maleena Pardhan. The game was a bit of a “grudge match” as Southern United was the team that had served up the Shooters only defeat in the round robin phase. The next World Masters Games will be held in Torino, Italy in August 2013 and the Shooters are already planning for it! For more information about the Shooters’ experience in Australia visit www.westsideshooters.com

Devils For Kelli Top Women's Team at Vancouver Run Site for 4th Year in a Row

For Kelli were presented with their fourth New Balance Women's Team Award in a row at the Vancouver run site. With a flurry of post run contributions, the Devils 4th campaign surpassed $29,000 bringing their four year total to an an amazing $88,000.00 for breast cancer research. Kelli remains an inspiration to all around her as she continues to live life to its fullest. Check out the CTV Devils for Kelli 2009 coverage HERE.

Westside Football Club Youth Charity Jamboree Set for Thanksgiving Saturday Oct 10th

We are taking registrations for our 15th Annual Charity Youth Soccer Jamboree and at time of posting have spots left in all groups BU9, BU10, BU11, GU9, GU10, GU11. GO HERE for more info and/or download the invitation and registration form HERE. Contact Doug Johnston for more information. As Kids Help Phone of Canada celebrates its 20th anniversary, Westside Football Club is proud to have been supporting KHP for 15 of them!

Saturday July 11, 2009

Westside Football Club Announces the 2009 Mike Pettingale Memorial Scholarship Winner

On July 11, 2009, founding Westsider Don Johnston announced, on behalf of the scholarship selection committee, the second ever Mike Pettingale Memorial Scholarship winner. Once again, there were many strong applicants. This year's winner, Shanay Sangha, stood out for her camaraderie, community and character ... her living of the values to which Westside Football Club aspires. She displayed a remarkable energy level and maturity in her studies and her community service through high school. Graduating from the Vancouver GU18 metro team, Shanay is touted to become a force in College footy as she joins the Kwantlen College womens soccer program. Given her metro, high school and tournament soccer success to date, this seems pretty likely.

New Park, Same Old Great Day of Football ... Another Blazing Hot 7-A-Side Tournament!

There was another great turnout and yet another day of beautiful weather for this year's co-ed all-ages event on July 11th ... at Jericho Beach Park for the first time!

Premier 7-a-side Event Sponsor: Carlsberg

2009 Champions:
Carl Atterton	Chris Lockhart	Jodi Robillard
Art Dahl	Graham MacDonald	Victoria Rosario
Raphael Ditzler	Keith Moore	Mike Wicken
Heather Kisbee	Liam Rivest

2009 MVPs:

Womens - Ashley McGhee Mens - Georg Maurer

CTV Story on Devils for Kelli Receives National Recognition

On June 27, 2009 in Toronto, CTV British Columbia and Pamela Martin were honoured with the Dave Rogers Award for the Best Short TV Feature News Story in Canada in 2008. CTV-BC was recognized by the Radio and Television News Directors Association of Canada for their large market CTV feature on Devils for Kelli called "Red Devils".

In her acceptance speech, Pamela Martin told the audience that
Kelli herself was the reason the story was so successful - that it was Kelli's ability to connect with the audience and share her journey, her ability to be so open and down to earth that made Kelli's story touch so many, many hearts.

Devils for Kelli is gearing up for their 4th annual campaign from August to October in conjunction with the CIBC Run for the Cure. Information and donation links will be posted soon.

Here are some of the highlights from the 31st Annual Westside FC Awards Banquet held May 30th at Heritage Hall.

2008-2009 Westside League Successes

MWSL Classics Gold 30+ League Champions: Westside FC Shooters
VMSL Masters Division 2B League Champions: Westside FC Rangers
MWSL Division 3 West League Champions: Westside FC Storm
League Title Runners Up
Westside FC Rino B, VMSL Division 1CAT
Westside FC Originals B, VMSL Masters Division 2B

2008-2009 Westside Cup Successes

Mens O-35 Provincial A Cup Silver Medalists: Westside FC Originals A
Senior Womens Provincial A Cup Final Four: Westside FC Premier Women
MWSL Classics Gold 30+ League Cup Champions: Westside FC Shooters
VMSL Masters B Cup Champions: Westside FC Rangers
VMSL U21 League Cup Champions: Westside FC Rino U-21
League Cup Finalists:
MWSL Premier League Cup, Westside FC Premier Women
VMSL Division 1 League Cup, Westside FC Rino B
VMSL Masters B Cup, Westside FC Originals B

2008-2009 Club Wide Awards

The Vince Alvano Award
Established in 2003, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Westside Football Club in honour of founder Vince Alvano and awarded annually to the coach or player whose drive to win and ability to motivate is an example to the rest of the club.

2009 Nominees:

Tami Bradley Dan May Jason Small

John Catliff Keith Moore Alan Thom

Keith Moore

The Bob Baldwin Award
Established in 2003, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Westside Football Club in honour of founder Bob Baldwin and awarded annually to the player who embodies the spirit of Westside, leading their team by example on the field and off.

2009 Nominees:

Karen Best Gillian Hervey Deena Verappan

Renne Brown Heather Kisbee Roshni Verappan

Karen (Brew) Best

The Jay Skelding Award
Established in 1990, in memory of stalwart Westsider Jay Skelding and awarded annually to the most inspirational and dedicated Westside member (coach, player, manager or sponsor).

Peter Stannard

Peter Stannard is surprisingly only the second club founder to win the Jay Skelding Award. As one of five original founders of 1978 who is still actively playing (with the same guile and composure he's always displayed), he has dedicated over 30 years to building the club. While there are too many accolades to list, Peter is recognized for being one of the key drivers of the club's early expansion, running the infamous clubhouse in the 80's, coaching the Red Devils, being a big part of the charity youth tournament, serving as club president, coaching the masters premier squad and his ongoing role as the club CIO.

The Marcus Dressel "Keeper" of the Year Award
Established in 2007, in honour of Westside Football Club builder and keeper Marcus Dressel and awarded annually to the member, family or friend who best captures the spirit of Westside through a lens.

2009 Nominees:
Andrea Clarke	Guy Leslie	Hugh Meikle
Heather Kisbee	Chris Lockhart	Marcello Pavan

Marcello Pavan

Westside Football Club Shooters Win MWSL Classics Gold League and Cup Double
After edging out perrenial title winners, the Meralomas, by a point over the season to take Westside's 1st ever MWSL Classics Gold League Title, the Westside FC Shooters defeated Semiahmoo Supra 4 - 3 to take Westside's first ever MWSL Classics Gold Cup. After being double runners up last year, the Shooters stepped it up yet another notch in their third season in Classics to do the double!

Westside Football Club Rangers Win VMSL Masters B Cup and Div 2B League Title Double
Losing one game all season in league and cup play was a fantastic achievement for the oft understaffed "young" Rangers. The fact that the league and cup bridesmaids were the geriatric Westside FC Originals B made it even funner.

Westside Football Club Storm Finish At The Top of MWSL Div 3 West
The Storm came out of the gates with a bang this season, leading the league for most of the year and were then caught at the end by the NSGSC Mavericks, each team finishing with 29 points. Promotion to Div 2 is to be announced.

Westside Football Club Qualifies For Four of the Six Senior Provincial A Cups
The Westside FC premier womens team, silver medalists in last years Senior Womens Provincial A Cup will once again be part of the crop of twelve teams trying to stop Surrey United FC from taking their 6th provincial title in a row in April and May.

The Westside FC premier mens team has qualified for the Senior Mens Provincial A Cup in search of Westside's 5th senior mens title. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of Westside's first senior mens provincial championship in 1989.

The Westside FC O-Men A, finalists in 2006, have qualified for the 17th straight year for the (previously Over 30 and now) Over 35 Provincial A (Deryl Hughes) Cup that continues to elude them ;-).

Westside FC Rino U-21 has yet again qualified for the Doug Day Cup that they won in 2003 and lost in the final in 2007.

The Cup draws takes place March 24th (womens) & 25th (mens).

Westside Football Club Wins The VMSL U-21 League Cup!
Westside FC Rino continues to collect silverware as Westside FC Rino U-21 edged out RCIU U-21 Legends in overtime of the U-21 League Cup Final to win 3 - 2. This was a measure of revenge after RCIU Athletics beat Westside FC Rino B in the Division 1 League Cup Final the previous week.

Welcome Four New Club Directors
Many thanks to outgoing Director Dan May and welcome to Craig Robinson, Sarah Chapman, Laura Barnes and Brian Deo elected at the recent AGM.

Happy New Year! Have A Carlsberg
Check out this PDF listing Carlsberg Canada's family of import beers and all their current specials!

Devils For Kelli Three Year Total Fundraising For Cancer Research Edges To $60,000.00
Devils For Kelli continue to amaze! This fall they raised almost $30,000, bringing their three year total to almost $60,000! Devils For Kelli and their inspiring story were featured several times this fall on CTV.

Nicole the adventurer, Westside FC Storm and friends ... carpe diem ...