Sport Nova Scotia – (Halifax, September 19, 2019)- Keighan DeCoff is the Cleve’s Source for Sport female individual athlete of the month for September. The 16-year-old Pictou County athlete won bronze in discus and gold in shot put in the U18 category at the Canadian Legion Championships. The national competition hosted over 700 athletes from August 9-11 in Sydney, NS.
The Athlete of the Month program is administered by Sport Nova Scotia, whose members are eligible to nominate athletes for the awards. A membership committee selects the award recipients for five possible categories: Male Individual Athlete, Female Individual Athlete, Male Team Athlete, Female Team Athlete, and Team. For more information about the awards, please visit sportnovascotia.ca.
Sport Nova Scotia is a voice for amateur sport that promotes the benefits of health, personal development and achievement of all participants. Sport Nova Scotia is a non-profit, non-government organization representing approximately 60 provincial sport organizations and more than 160,000-member Nova Scotians.
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For more information or to request athlete photos, please contact:
Kate Trask
Communications Coordinator
Sport Nova Scotia
ktrask@sportnovascotia.ca
902-292-0037