Life-long equestrian for BC Sports Hall of Fame
Former Equine Canada President David Esworthy has been inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame inwards recognition of his life-long dedication to equestrian sport.
Induction recognizes excellence inwards sport, contribution to sport together with the touching on on sport inwards British Columbia, inwards the categories of athlete, team, builder, media, pioneer, together with volunteer. H5N1 pick committee, comprised of members of the BC Sports Hall of Fame Board of Trustees, the media together with the sport community made the end decision.
Esworthy has been described every bit a truthful horseman, inwards that he has served inwards virtually every business office possible inwards equestrian sport: every bit a rider, FEI judge, FEI steward, clinician, demo organizer, demo chair, administrator together with manufacture advisor. Perhaps Esworthy’s biggest touching on has been to the countless individuals he has mentored inwards BC, Canada, together with beyond, who themselves conduct keep gone on to buy the farm accomplished athletes, officials together with administrators.
Always working to laissez passer equestrian greater recognition together with credibility, Esworthy’s 50-plus-year career included a diverseness of administrative positions including 2 price every bit president of Equine Canada (1977 – 1984). Esworthy was too instrumental inwards the grooming for equestrian events at both the 1976 together with 1984 Olympic Games.
“It is difficult to position into words simply what this has meant to me,” said Esworthy.
“It is for certain the biggest observe that I conduct keep received since I was awarded the Canadian Equestrian Federation (now Equine Canada) Gold Medal virtually thirty years ago. I conduct keep said it several times that my beingness named to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame was a amount surprise. It was something that I, allow lone never aspired to, but I had never fifty-fifty idea of,” he said.
“Certainly at that spot was a feeling of awe when I was stimulate advised of the observe but it takes a field for the stupor to wearable off together with and hence y'all stimulate to recognize all the dandy athletes, coaches together with builders that are honored members together with that y'all are joining their ranks. It was a double observe to realize that “Equestrian” is straightaway a category inwards the Hall together with that I am the stimulate e'er to endure named inwards that category,” Esworthy said. “I must too give thank y'all all the dandy members of the CEF who conduct keep done hence much for the sport together with enabled me to stand upward for them all inwards this way.”
The BC Sports Hall of Fame hosted a “Banquet of Champions” on Thursday, September twenty at the Vancouver Convention Centre to honour the Class of 2012.
Marion Lay, chair of the Selection Committee, said the 2012 Class of Inductees honoured past times the BC Sports Hall of Fame are exceptional. “Our pick commission did an outstanding project of sifting through over 120 nominations. The Class of 2012 really reflects the best of the best.”
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