Jordan Ercit
The Nugget
Madison Whittet has already been to a pair of OFSAA championships this season.
The 16-year-old St. Joseph-Scollard Hall student was an NDA girls golf champion and a top-five finisher at the NOSSA golf tournament too.
However, none of those accomplishments compare to the award Whittet picked up this week.
The Grade 11 multi-sport athlete was one of two students in Ontario recognized as an OFSAA Character Award winner. One boy and one girl will be honoured each semester this school year, celebrating the efforts of "exceptional student-athletes in Ontario who best exemplify the characteristics that OFSAA is founded on."
Whittet is the first girl to get her chance in the spotlight.
"Coming from OFSAA, that's a big thing," Whittet said Friday. "I'd take that over an MVP any day . . . because it's nice to know people see those values in you."
But being in the spotlight is not where Whittet usually likes to be.
In fact, the cross-country runner, golfer and swimmer was perfectly content letting a selfless act go unnoticed until word started to spread about her good deed toward a fellow athlete earlier this year at the Sacred Heart Invitational cross country meet in Vaughan.
Whittet didn't even know someone had nominated her for the award until last week when physical education head Laurie Vezina, the person who penned the nomination form, informed Whittet she was in the running.
What Vezina, along with others at Scollard, had found out was that Whittet chugging along at a tough Sacred Heart Invite race, "but not doing too bad" stumbled upon a fellow racer in distress not too far from the finish line.
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