2025 Baseball Manitoba Award Winner Announcement

Oct. 10, 2025

The Awards Committee has met, deliberated and decided on the 2025 Award Winners! Over 55 individual nominations were considered, here are the results:

2025 Award Winners

Grassroots Team of the Year: 13U AA Fort Garry Giants

High Performance Team of the Year: Minor: 13U AAA Winnipeg South Wolves

High Performance Team of the Year: Major: 22U Carillon Sultans

Grassroots Coach of the Year: Les McRae (Argyle)

High Performance Coach of the Year: Colten Boudreau (Winnipeg South)

13U Player of the Year: Carson Swaenepoel (Souris) AND Jeter Ceslak (La Salle)

14U Girls Player of the Year: Leah Hamilton (Kenora)

15U Player of the Year: William Mateychuk (Zhoda)

16U Girls Player of the Year: Gemma Strutynski (Oakbank)

18U Player of the Year: Cole Adamson (West Winnipeg)

22U (Junior) Player of the Year: Dylan Duguay (Elmwood) AND Owen Goertzen (Pembina Valley)

Senior Men's Player of the Year: Andrew Lochhead (Killarney)

Senior Women's Player of the Year: Leah Peitsch (Winnipeg South)

Challenger Player of the Year: Jacoby Zebinski (North Winnipeg)

Volunteer of the Year: Aaron Tycoles (Rivers)

Derrick Dubell Grassroots Umpire of the Year: Caleb Thiessen (Boissevain)

Ron Shewchuk High Performance Umpire of the Year: Riley Nordman (Winnipeg South)

Larry Nicholls Umpire Award of Merit: Tony Siemens (Rosenort)

Honour Society: Brenda Horz (Charleswood), Diane Anderson (West Winnipeg), Alvin Semenek (posthumously) (North Winnipeg), Beverley Bragg (West St Paul)

Congratulations to all winners from all of us at Baseball Manitoba!

2025 Baseball Manitoba/Baseball Canada Awards Banquet

We are proud to present our 2025 Awards Program honouring our best coaches, officials, players, teams, volunteers, and honorary members for their performances and/or contributions to the sport of baseball over the last year.

Note: Baseball Manitoba is hosting the Baseball Canada Convention from Nov 6-8 at the Radisson Hotel Downtown Winnipeg. The Baseball Manitoba Awards Banquet will be held in conjunction with the Baseball Canada Awards Banquet.

Event Details:

Saturday, November 8, 2025
7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
Room: Ambassador A
Radisson Hotel Winnipeg Downtown
288 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0B8