2011
Eleventh Annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner
Sunday 30 January 2011 at the Turning Stone Resort.
2011
Football Official of the Year Award
CRITERIA
This award is intended to provide recognition to an individual who has shown outstanding and meritorious football officiating, in addition to dedication, leadership and service, to football on and off the field. The selected individual should represent and support the foundation’s fundamental creed of athletics in concert with scholarship and civic leadership.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT - 2011: GARY JANUS
Education: West Genesee Central High, 1961; Auburn Community College, A.A.S., 1964Syracuse University, B.A. 1967; Graduate studies at SUNY Oswego & SUNY Brockport.
Military: 1967 - 1969 U.S. Army - Vietnam; Recipient of Bronze Star; U.S. Army NationalGuard, 1972 - 1977
Employment: Auburn Enlarge School District 1973-2003.
Officiating:
1973 - 1985 CNYCHSFO - high school football
1980 - 2010 EAIFO - Empire Chapter
1980 - 2010 ECAC - college football (Worked six ECAC championships, three Cortica Juggames, three NCAA Divison III playoff games
1974 - Present CNYHSLOA - high school lacrosse
1977 - Present COC/NCAA - collegiate lacrosse
Community: Board of Directors of the Owasco Yacht Club, Past Commodore - Owasco Yacht ClubVolunteer at Mathew House - hospice residence facility for terminally ill cancer patients
PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2010: MIKE KERWIN • 2009: DON KRUTSCHITT • 2008: LARRY BYRNES • 2007: FRANK D’ORIO • 2006: BARRY LIPPENCOTT • 2005: DENNIS HENNIGAN • 2004: PAUL NOJAIM • 2003: JOHN SPENCER • 2002: MICHAEL ALBANESE • 2001: RICHARD T. RANUCCI
Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award
CRITERIA
This award is intended to provide recognition to an individual whose efforts and activities have been in support of amateur football and the goals of the local chapter.
Throughout the youth league, high school and collegiate playing fields of this country, these are remarkable individuals who work tirelessly out of a pure love of the game and a desire to help our youth play it well. This award seeks to recognize some of these noteworthy contributors.
Specific activities of the individual could range from coach to trainer to league organizer or fund raiser, and not uncommonly all of the above. The selected individual should represent and support the Foundation’s fundamental creed of athletics in concert with scholarship and civic leadership.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT - 2011: PETE SALA
Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Facilities Managing Director of the Carrier Dome.
Pete Sala is the Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Facilities and the Managing Director of the Carrier Dome. He is responsible for all athletics department facilities and operations, including the Lampe Athletics Complex, Carrier Dome, Hookway Practice Fields, Softball Stadium, Ten Eyck Memorial Boathouse, and Drumlins Tennis Club.
Sala started at the Carrier Dome in 1982 as a production assistant and advanced through the ranks to production manager in 1988 and operations manager in 1991. He served as Assistant Director of Facilities Operations for the Carrier Dome from 1991 through June 2005 when he was promoted to Associate Director of Athletics for Facilities. In 2010, Sala assumed the role of Managing Director of the Carrier Dome.
At the Dome, Sala is responsible for all aspects of the day to day operations of the facility including, coordinating and scheduling events, managing the box office, maintaining the budget, and overseeing all necessary building maintenance. He supervises a full-time staff of 35, part-time staff of over 400, and nearly 100 students that assist in Dome operations and facility changeovers. Sala also serves as the Dome's contact person for television productions.
Along with his Carrier Dome responsibilities, Pete is also the Construction Manager for all athletic facility upgrades and new building projects including recent additions such as the Football weight room, five new outdoor synthetic turf fields, the Carmelo Anthony basketball practice facility, and the remodel of Manley Field House into a new multi-use indoor practice facility.
A 1979 graduate of Jamesville-DeWitt High School, Sala attended Morrisville College for one year before transferring to the University of Massachusetts where he completed their program in Turf Management.
He and his wife, Laurie, reside in Jamesville with their son, Jake.
PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2010: HENRY ANDREW (ANDY) MORAN • 2009: THOMAS R. TATHAM • 2008: FRED DUNLAP • 2007: GEORGE MANGICARO • 2006: DICK BADER • 2005: PAT TESTA • 2004: BILL PAWLOSKI • 2003: JOHN SMITH • 2002: AL VEDDER • 2001: ED FERRANTE
Distinguished American Award
CRITERIA
This award is presented on special occasions to an outstanding American, but necessarily to a former football player. The recipient will be a person who has maintained a lifetime of interest in the game and who has, over a long period of time, exhibiting leadership qualities and who has made a significant contribution to the betterment of amateur football in the United States and to the quality of life for all Americans.
Mr. John M. McHugh was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of the Army on Sept 21. 2009. following his nomination by President Barack Obama and confirmation by the United States Senate.
As Secretary of the Army, he has statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower. personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications, and financial management Secretary McHugh is responsible for the Department of the Army's annual budget and supplemental of over $200 billion. He leads a work force of more than 1.1 million active duty, Army National Guard. and Army Reserve Soldiers, 221,000 Department of the Army civilian employees, and 213,000 contracted service personnel. He has stewardship over 14 million acres of land.
At the time of his appointment as Secretary of the Army, Mr. McHugh was a sitting member of Congress representing Northern and Central New York. During his nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he earned a reputation as a staunch advocate for Soldiers and their Families, working tirelessly to ensure they have proper facilities. training, and the quality of life necessary to carry out wartime missions while caring for those at home.
As a Member of Congress, Mr. McHugh served as the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) with responsibility to oversee the policies and programs for the Department of Defense and each of the Armed Forces. Before becoming Ranking Member, Congressman McHugh was first the Chairman of the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Panel and then Chairman and later Ranking Member of the Committee's Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Mr. McHugh also served as a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and for six years as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Postal Service that significantly reformed the Postal Service. From 1997 to 2004, Mr. McHugh was a member of the House International Relations Committee. Subsequently. from 2005 to 2009. he served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mr. McHugh was also a 14-year member of the United States Military Academy Board of Visitors. At the time of his nomination. Mr. McHugh was co-chair of the House Army Caucus, a bipartisan organization that works to educate fellow House Members and their staffs about Army issues and programs.
Secretary McHugh was born in Watertown, New York, where he began his public service career in 1971 as the Confidential Assistant to the City Manager. In 1976, he joined the staff of New York State Senator H. Douglas Barclay. with whom he served as Chief of Research and Liaison with local governments for nine years Succeeding Senator Barclay in 1984, Mr. McHugh served four terms in the legislature's upper house before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992.
Mr. McHugh received a B.A. in Political Science from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1970, and earned a Master's Degree in Pubic Administration from the State University of New York's Nelson A. Rockefeller Graduate School of Public Affairs in 1977.
PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2008: HONORABLE JOHN CHERUNDOLO • 2007: E. DOUGLAS KENNA • 2005: LT. BRYAN TAYLOR, U.S.N. • 2002: HONORABLE NORMAN A. MORDUE • 2001: PEARNE BILLINGS
High School Coach of the Year Award
CRITERIA
This award is intended to provide recognition to an individual who has shown outstanding and meritorious football coaching, in addition to dedication, leadership and service, to football on and off the field.
The selected individual should represent and support the foundation’s fundamental creed of athletics in concert with scholarship and civic leadership.
THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENT - 2011: TOM FREARS, GENERAL BROWN HIGH SCHOOL
Family
Wife: Kathy
Children: Nick 17, Brett 15, Delaney 13
• 1st year Varsity Head Coach at General Brown High School
• 21 years Varsity Assistant Coach at General Brown High School
• 2 years coaching JV and Modified Watertown High School
• 5 years coaching Freshmen Football at East Lansing High School, Michigan
• Graduated 1985 from Michigan State University
• Currently employed by General Brown School District as a physical education teacher.
• Also Boys Varsity Lacrosse Coach.
PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2010: CARL SANFILIPPO • 2009: BILL CARINCI • 2008: STEVE BUSH • 2007: DAVE MOSKOV • 2006: PAUL SEALY • 2005: JOSEPH CASSAMENTO AND CALVIN MOSHER
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