Arnold is the second recipient of the award after Carlotta Lee in 2023
Sharon Arnold was the named the 2024 recipient of Tennis Canada’s esteemed Prix Jacqueline L. Boutet Award on the annual UNMATCHED: Gender Fairness in Sports activities Convention on Wednesday, August 7.
This award, named in honour of the late Jacqueline Lemieux Boutet, acknowledges people whose dedication to the game of tennis has made a long-lasting impression on advancing the fairness, inclusivity, and accessibility of tennis in Canada.
Boutet made historical past by turning into the primary girl to function the chair of Tennis Canada’s Board of Administrators. From 1995 to 1998, Boutet advocated for presidency assist to safe funding for the development of what’s now generally known as IGA Stadium in Montreal. Her aim behind this undertaking was to raise the Nationwide Financial institution Open introduced by Rogers to the world-renowned match it’s right this moment.
The 2024 recipient of the award, Sharon Arnold, led the event of the primary instructing manuals for bodily schooling academics and promoted tennis instruction in colleges throughout her 20 years as Schooling Committee Chair on the Ontario Tennis Affiliation (OTA). Arnold can be a founding Board Member of the Philpott Youngsters’s Tennis Fund, with the mission to contain extra kids in tennis for growth on and off the court docket.
Arnold’s tenure on the OTA and Philpott Youngsters’s Tennis Boards of Administrators is highlighted by her dedication to selling inclusive and accessible tennis to all kids in the neighborhood. She continues to steer and form Philpott Youngsters’s Tennis, which offers free tennis applications to Toronto’s inner-city communities.
“Sharon’s dedication to rising tennis is what the Prix Jacqueline L. Boutet Award is all about,” stated Eva Havaris, Senior Vice President of Tennis Improvement and Partnerships at Tennis Canada. “This award honours Sharon’s excellent contributions to accessibility and inclusivity in tennis, which continues to introduce extra kids to the game every year. Her efforts to develop the game are exemplary, as implementing tennis into the varsity curriculum has ensured a welcoming introduction to tennis for a lot of kids, particularly younger ladies.”
Larry Tanenbaum honoured with the inaugural UNMATCHED Award
The third-annual UNMATCHED convention additionally honoured Larry Tanenbaum, a Toronto-based sports activities government, with the first-of-its-kind UNMATCHED Award for Funding in Ladies’s Sport.
Tanenbaum is the Chairman of Kilmer Sports activities Ventures and Maple Leaf Sports activities & Leisure and was honoured by Tennis Canada for his contribution to the event and assist of ladies’s sport in Canada after his current acquisition of Canada’s first WNBA franchise.
The UNMATCHED Award will yearly acknowledge a corporation or particular person for his or her materials funding within the development and growth of ladies’s sport.
