For 41 years, Glen (Moose) Scott has been helping to grow the game of lacrosse in Prince George. His grassroots contributions have earned him recognition from Sport BC.
Scott, along with seven other P.G. residents, has been selected to receive a Community Sport Hero Award from the provincial organization. The awards will be presented by acting mayor Shari Green during a Feb. 8 ceremony at the Coast Inn of the North.
Other individuals who will be handed Sport Hero hardware that night are Aline Strasdin (judo), Wade Loukes (Northern B.C. Winter Games), Sue MacDonald (Action Schools! BC), Nancy Harris (wheelchair basketball), Dee Neukomm (Special Olympics), K-Lynn Hogh (softball) and Lucia Fendelet (gymnastics). All had their names put forward by their peers.
"To be nominated for the Community Sport Hero Award has completely flabbergasted me," Scott said. "It has completely taken me by surprise.
"The awards and the accolades you get basically are always from within your own city and your own organization and you don't do it because you want to have rewards heaped upon you. It's the love of the game of lacrosse."
Scott has been president/commissioner of the Prince George Senior Lacrosse Association -- a league he helped form -- for the past 21 years. He has also been the driving force behind the Alcan Cup Senior Invitational Lacrosse Championship for all of its 12 years of existence.
In the late 1980s, Scott also kickstarted a masters lacrosse league in Prince George.
And yes, he was even a player in his younger days.
For eight years in the old North Central Lacrosse Association, a senior B league based in Prince George, Scott suited up for the Labatt Blues.
"I had seven goals, 19 assists and 792 minutes in penalties," he said with a chuckle.
"I was on defence with Russ Logan and we were the protectors of our good goalscorers.
"[The NCLA] was a very good senior B league," Scott added. "As a matter of fact, the Molson Oldstylers ended up winning the Canadian senior B championship in 1974."
Scott said he's been in Prince George since "at least 1970." He grew up in the Kerrisdale area of Vancouver and that's where he was first introduced to the game.
"The Vancouver Burrards, with guys like Bill Chisholm and Bill Babcock and Gord Frederickson and a whole bunch more, used to come down to the [outdoor box] that I threw the lacrosse ball around in. We developed a bit of a friendship and they showed me the great game of lacrosse. After that it was just the love of the game and getting involved. I knew I wasn't good enough to be playing Western Lacrosse Association senior A but when I came to Prince George the senior B league was looking for players and I tried out for the Labatt Blues and I ended up winning a position."
The awards ceremony will start at 6 p.m. The general public is invited to attend.
