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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:
Westside FC Premier Women, MWSL Premier League Cup
Westside FC Rino B, VMSL Division 1 League Cup
Westside FC Originals B, VMSL Masters B Cup

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.

Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008

Westside Football Club Celebrates Its Most Charitable Youth Jamboree Ever!
The 14th Annual Westside Football Club Charity Youth Soccer Jamboree this past October 11th raised more money for charity and food for the Vancouver Food Bank than ever before as 400 boys and girls from age 8 to 10 participated in a fun day of soccer and skills clinics. The 100% volunteer operated event donates all proceeds to the Kids Help Phone and the Westside Football Club Scholarship Trust.

Many thanks to our perennial premium event sponsor, TSS Academy, and to the Segal Family for a special gift!

Many thanks to the Kids Help Phone's generous network of supporters - Safeway, Starbucks, Saputo / Dairyland, Neptune Foods, English Bay Cookie Co, Boston Pizza, and others!

Thanksgiving Saturday this year was a beautiful sunny day for the 30 young teams assembled at Douglas Park. The tournament went off without a hitch, the concession was humming and the generous teams filled a mini van for the Vancouver Food Bank. The tournament raised new record profits, just shy of $5,000, three quarters of which has gone to Kids Help Phone. The remaining quarter has gone into the Westside Football Club Scholarship Trust to generate income to fund the annual Mike Pettingale Memorial Scholarship Award for grade 12 soccer players heading on to post secondary studies.

Westside Football Club Lands Carlsberg As Club-wide Sponsor!

It is Westside Football Club's pleasure to announce a new sponsorship deal with the 161 year old soccer-focused global beer brand Carlsberg of Denmark - the 4th largest brewery in the world and sponsor of teams like world renowned Liverpool FC, FC Copenhagen, Toronto FC, Montreal Impact and the National Teams of England, Ireland and Switzerland. Carlsberg also sponsors major soccer championships such as Euro 2008, the UEFA Cup and the English FA Cup. Carlsberg Canada is a premium provider of Import beer from their countries of origin such as Denmark, France, the UK and Russia with products such as Carlsberg, Tuborg, Kronenbourg, Tetley's and Baltika.

Westside (Belatedly) Welcomes Home Two Of Its Own From Beijing

Westside Football Club joins the many Canadians who are so proud of our womens senior national soccer team who continue to compete at the very highest levels internationally. And we are especially proud of one of our premier womens team's leaders Clare Rustad who was such a stalwart through both Olympic qualifying and the entire tournament in Beijing, ... as well as (still playing) womens side co-founding club member Maeve Glass who manages the womens senior national team. Here they are outside the Birds Nest stadium.

Clare and Maeve in Beijing

Westside Football Club Youth Charity Jamboree Set for Oct 11th

We are taking registrations for our 14th Annual Charity Youth Soccer Jamboree and at time of posting have spots left in all groups BU9, BU10, BU11, GU9, GU10, GU11. Download the invitation and registration form here. Contact Doug Johnston for more information.

Westside Football Club Sponsors BU18 Vancouver Selects Quest for National Championship!

Westside FC wishes the Provincial A Cup Champion Boys U18 Vancouver Selects - including "second generation Westsider" Thomas Mallette - all the best in their quest for the biggest of all national youth championships, this Thanksgiving in the Toronto area. Westside FC is proud to join the BCSA, VYSA, ICSF and others in helping to fund their journey. The quest represents a culmination of five years of team building starting in U14 over which time they won the Selects league title four times.

Three-peat In Sight!

On Sunday, October 5, 2008, unite with all Canadians in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure. Be part of the largest single-day volunteer-led fundraising event dedicated to creating a future without breast cancer.

"Devils for Kelli" are raising funds as part of their third CIBC Run for the Cure campaign. The team has now exceeded a three year total of $40,000.00 and marching.

Check out how the team is doing here.

Click here to donate to Devils for Kelli.

Pre-Season Kicking Off

Westside FC is pleased to announce that Jason Small will be coaching the mens premier team this season. The premier mens preseason evaluation sessions start Thursday August 14th at Prince of Wales south field 6:30 pm and continue Tuesday August 19th at South Memorial north west field.

For more information on tryouts and preseason schedules for all of Westside FC teams go here or email info@westsidesoccer.com

Westside Football Club Scholarship Trust Grows

Westside FC is thankful to Ruth Pettingale for making another generous contribution to the Scholarship Trust as Westside builds toward its goal of reaching a funding level to support a pair of awards every year. Application forms for 2009 are posted here.

Another Blazing Hot 7-A-Side Tournament!

There was another great turnout and yet another day of beautiful weather for this years co-ed all-ages event on July 12th!

Premier 7-a-side Event Sponsor: Admiral

Silver 7-a-side Event Sponsor: Russell Brewing Co

2008 Champions:
Dan Crouch	Rob Merkl	Diana Padres
Yumi Hayashi (2007 Female MVP)	Tony Nannar	James Prescott
Bob Heseltine	Megan Nichol	Graham Price
Arlie Krauchek	John Nickel	Andrea Thurber

2008 MVPs:

Womens - Andrea Thurber (GK) Mens - George Martin Best

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