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stux mckinnon named top sports personality bob mckinnon who piloted the stouffville edwards mur phy painting bantam clippers to both the ontario minor hockey association omha and ontario hockey federation ohp bantam a champi onships this past season has been named stouffville sports personality of the year the sevenyear veteran rep level hockey coach will be offi cially presented with the award at the strawberry festival awards presentations wednes day july 1 at 730 at the memorial park stage mckinnon said he was sur prised at being given the stouf- fville sunsponsored award and that he felt the honor should be shared by the other members of the edwardmur phy coaching staff i appreciate being named sports personality of the year but you dont do it on your own said mckinnon i had a lot of help with the team from steve ellis barry sullivan and bob legeer its a shame they dont get mentioned mckinnon was on the coach ing staff of the lakeshore zone titlist stouffville novice clip pers in the 198586 season he also helped coach the towns 198788 omha champion atom chppers his son john 15 is one of many players who have played on all the rep teams mckinnon has coached one of my great est satisfactions has been work- ing with these boys all the way through he conceded its not always this years sports personality bob mckinnon talks to his bantam players during a practice this past winter easy coaching ones own son you tend to be harder on your own son than on any one elses some people drop out of coach ing rep hockey because of that its not a friendly drive home from peterborough after a tough tournament sometimes he said his own sense of accomplishment was enhanced by the way he was able to suc ceed in turning the team around after a shaky start to the season the dramatics of the way we won it and to have done a com plete reversal after christmas was just great we had some problems with fighting in games early in the season but we didnt have one fighting major penalty after christ mas and we only lost one game after that when you can do that with teenagers you know you are getting through to them mckinnon said he enjoys see ing the average players con tribute to a team you know your bigguns are going to do well but to see one of your less er lights score two goals in an important playoff games is very satisfying the millard st resident will serve as assistant coach to wally crowder with the ban tams next season as for the future mckinnon said hell continue to stay involved until its no longer fun ill do it as long as i still get a kick out of coaching sunftw swings great values today only june 28 -10am- 4 steel belted allseason radial s4s starting from p15580r13 xnw every day whitewall size low price p16580r13 xnw 4495 p17580r13 xnw 4995 p18580r13 xnw 5295 p18575r14 xnw 5395 p19575r14 xnw 5495 p20575r14 xnw 6295 our most popular allseason radial arriva sale size price p15580r13 xnw 4200 p16580r13 xnw 4995 p19575r14 ww 5695 p20575r15 ww 6795 allseason 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