Rutland Herald:
Rene LaBerge, president of the SB Dolphins’ Football Foundation, announced the nominations for the annual “PRIDE of Vermont High School Football” award. The motto of the Dolphin team and Foundation is PRIDE — Personal Responsibility for Individual Daily Effort.
The PRIDE trophy is a work of granite artwork and will be given out in the spring at the National Football Foundation, Vermont Chapter, awards ceremony at Castleton University.
Coaches from the three Vermont divisions nominated players from their own teams and will vote to elect a premier player from all nominees in their division, without voting for their own player. When the three finalists are chosen after the North-South game, their game films and play will be reviewed by a panel of retired coaches who will ultimately decide who is the “PRIDE of Vermont High School Football.”
This trophy is sponsored by the SB Dolphins’ Football Foundation and is made possible by a donation from the Johnson Family in memory of their son, Chris Johnson, a former player with the South Burlington Dolphins’ youth football team. The Dolphin Foundation was created to perpetuate the growth and future of football in Vermont and this trophy is another way of attaining this goal.
Nominees are:
Division I
Tanner Cioffi, BFA St. Albans; Evan Pe
rkins, Brattleboro; Sam Belisle, CVU; Ryan Casey, Colchester; Cole Picard, Essex; Tanner Potter, Hartford; Dominic Mosca, Mt. Mansfield; Andy Kenosh, Rutland.
Division II
Zac Streeter, Bellows Falls; Connor Plante, Burlington; Cody Roberts, Burr & Burton; Lucas Czarnecki, Fair Haven; Ian Kandzior, Milton; Matthew Mullin, Mt. Abraham.
Division III
Zach Allen, Mill River; Jonah Farrow, Mt. St. Joseph; Carson Leary, Otter Valley; Jordan Grenier, Poultney; Drew Lamb, Spaulding; Colby Brochu, U-32; Brandon Bigelow, Winooski; Jackson Wood, Woodstock.