Syl Apps Athlete of the Year Award

The Syl Apps Athlete of the Year Award, began in 1998 and is awarded by the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame to Ontario's Athlete of the Year. It is named in for Syl Apps, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games pole vaulter and Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1940s.

The award is made based on voting by Ontario-based sports writers, broadcasters and personalities who have covered sports in Ontario for at least 10 years, as well as members of the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors and the Hall's Advisory Board. The award is for outstanding and memorable contributions to Ontario sports during the previous calendar year. Athletes may be eligible for the award if they are Ontario-born or Ontario-based.[1]

Online Voting

Since 2015, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame has started to poll online for the public of Ontario to vote for the next Syl Apps Athlete of the Year award recipient. In its first year, Brooke Henderson was selected by the voters of Ontario as the athlete that best deserved the honour. She received an overwhelming majority of the votes beating out professional and amateur athletes like Kyle Lowry, Milos Raonic, and Russell Martin.[2]

In 2016, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame recognized Brad Sinopoli, a Canadian football wide receiver who is currently playing for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League, as the Syl Apps Athlete of the Year. The online public vote to determine the award recipient concluded on March 31, 2016 with Sinopoli edging out other top professional competitors such as Andre De Grasse, Brooke Henderson and Kadeisha Buchanan to win. He received nearly 30% of total votes cast.[3]

Winners
Milos Raonic, 2013 and 2014 winner
Key
  • * = Voted by the Ontario public in online poll
Year Winner Sport Win #
1997Roger ClemensBaseball2
1998Roger ClemensBaseball2
1999Mike WeirGolf3
2000Mike WeirGolf3
2001Vince CarterBasketball1
2002Steve YzermanHockey1
2003Mike WeirGolf3
2004Adam Van KoeverdenRowing3
2005Damon AllenCanadian Football3
2006None--
2007None--
2008Eric LamazeEquestrian1
2009Daniel NestorTennis2
2010Joey VottoBaseball1
2011Patrick ChanFigure skating3
2012Rosie MacLennanTrampoline Gymnast1
2013Milos RaonicTennis2
2014Milos RaonicTennis2
2015Brooke Henderson *Golf1
2016Brad Sinopoli *Canadian Football1
2017Penny OleksiakSwimming1 2018Joey Votto

References
  1. "Syl Apps Athlete of the Year Award". Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  2. "Brooke Henderson wins Syl Apps Ontario Athlete of the Year Award". Golf Association of Ontario. 23 April 2015.
  3. "Redblacks receiver Brad Sinopoli voted Ontario athlete of year for 2015". Ottawa Citizen. 18 April 2016.


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