FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Toronto – The Toronto Argonauts and The Argos Foundation announced a partnership with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and the Toronto Foundation for Student Success on a new program entitled Level The Playing Field, sponsored by Tim Hortons. In its inaugural year, the program helped return football teams to four Toronto-area high schools with a $10,000 donation to each school. The four high school football teams, North Albion Collegiate, C.W. Jefferys Collegiate, Eastern Commerce and Lester B. Pearson, all play in the TDSB Varsity Development Tier 2 League. In an effort to help build and promote high school football, the Argos will send out weekly updates on the teams in this league throughout the high school football season.
The coaches from each team in the Varsity Development Tier 2 League were invited to submit their team’s MVP based on both on-field and off-field performance. Here are the team MVPs for the week ending October 9:
Sir Sandford Fleming Academy
MVP: Khalid Omar
Position: Slotback, PR, KR
Grade: 12
Coaches: Barton Harvey, Ian Vincent, Geoff Sura
“Khalid Omar will again be our MVP for week 2 after scoring another 2 touchdowns in our 34-0 victory over North Albion Collegiate.”
Westview Centennial Secondary School
MVP: Jameel Russel
Position: Linebacker
Grade: 12
Coach: Doug Vaughan
“Jameel played an outstanding game on defence making numerous solo tackles. When a team injury forced him to play offence, he stepped in and supplied key blocking to ensure the team’s second victory of the season.”
C.W. Jefferys Collegiate
MVP: Marlon Lawerance
Position: Right Guard
Grade: 12
Coach: Ehsan Jahangirvand
“Marlon played intensively and aggressively throughout the whole game and made many
good tackles, while being able to adjust into different positions.”
Eastern Commerce C.I.
MVP: Teroy Salmon
Position: Running Back
Grade: 11
Coach: Sean Henderson
“Teroy has been an unstoppable player in practice but until this game had not realized his goal of scoring a touchdown. As the game advanced, Teroy gained more and more yardage. Finally with the entire team cheering him on, Teroy scored Eastern’s first touchdown late in the third quarter.”
Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute
MVP: Chris Spence
Position: Quarterback/Linebacker
Grade: 12
Coach: Iain McLeod
“Chris scored Danforth’s first touchdown in 23 years, and ran in the subsequent 2-point conversion. Chris is an inspirational team leader.”
North Albion C.I.
MVP: Jermaine James & Theo Anderson
Position: Defensive Ends
Grade: 12
Coaches: Norm Johnston, Marty Munchinsky, Ron Chhinzer
“We couldn’t choose just one of our defensive ends. They both have exceptional leadership skills and team spirit and are incredibly hard workers.”
Lester B. Pearson C.I.
MVP: Steven Bole
Position: Linebacker/Running Back
Grade: 11
Coaches: James Reznicki