The WRSS Titans organization is proud to announce that a record nine Midget Titans have been selected to the VMFL Star Bowl team.
Congratulations to,
Matt Calderwood, Quarterback
Nathan Leader, Wide Receiver
Steven Bouchard, Running Back
David Saringer, Offensive Line
Mike Bouchard, Defensive Line
Tanner Figueroa, Linebacker
Riley Cantner, Defensive Back
Andrew Darcovich, Defensive Back/Receiver
Jacob Snow, Defensive Line
Midget quarterback Matt Calderwood has been selected the VMFL Offensive Player of the Year for his efforts in leading the Titans to an outstanding 2010 season.
Congratulations Matt!
Football Community Mourns Loss of Pioneer, Rob Mountford
December 6, 2010
The football community of BC has lost a shine…
Rob Mountford, former Surrey Rams President, former VMFL Vice President and long time North Surrey Minor Football President, passed away on Saturday December 4 after a lengthy illness. Rob dedicated his life to the youth of our communities, which are a better place today because of him.
The following paragraph is posted on the BC Football Hall of Fame website to describe it’s Pioneer Award,
The BC Lions Pioneer Award celebrates the achievement of individuals who have been instrumental in the development and promotion of amateur football in BC.
The recipients are committed to ensuring the prosperity of football in their communities by winning championships, building strong relationships, and building long-standing football clubs and programs. They have opened up opportunities for football in BC that would not be accessible to today’s youth without their tireless efforts.
Rob Mountford, if anyone, was deserving of this honour, which was bestowed upon him during a very emotional segment of the 2009 BC Lions Orange Helmet Awards dinner.
It was perhaps one of Rob’s proudest moments as the capacity crowd of over a thousand members of the BC football community and media rose to their feet in respect as he made his way to the stage to receive the award.
The Titans organization would like to express its most sincere sympathies to the Mountford family, his countless friends and to the North Surrey Minor Fooball organization.
Rob will be missed by all.
The Mountford family has also experienced another misfortune lately with Rob’s daughter, Jackie Mountford Lunot, wife of former Titans Midget Head Coach Darren Lunot, recently having been diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer.
Jackie and Darren are looking to travel to Germany where doctors have had success with treatment not yet available in Canada. They will be holding several fundraisers to help pay for testing and treatment. The details for the first fundraiser are as follows:
Date: December 18, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Cost: $30 – includes the Langley Chiefs game, a burger and a beer (or pop for kids)
For tickets or more details, please e-mail Lindsey (harmanlinds@gmail.com) or Kathy (kfurlong@telus.net).
I’ll play as many video games with you as you want, Ross said, and I’ll watch as many cartoons as you want, but on Sundays I get to watch one football game.
Deal, said Josh.
At the time, Ross – a lifelong football fan who was a fullback and long-snapper in his playing days – just wanted to keep tabs on his favourite team, the Minnesota Vikings, while perhaps, temporarily at least, taking his mind off his son’s health struggles, as the then-seven-year-old underwent treatment for neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer that attacks developing nerve cells, specifically in the adrenal glands.
Ross never expected those Sunday afternoons would one day convince his son – now 10 and on the road to recovery, two years removed from treatment – to hit the gridiron himself.
At the time, it never even seemed a possibility.
“At the start, he just sort of tolerated (the games). But by the end, I think he started to like it,” Ross explains of the pair’s weekly routine.
“And then this past summer, we said to him, ‘OK, you’re all healed up, what sport do you want to play?’ And right out of the blue, he said, ‘football.’
“I just looked at him and said, ‘Really?’”…
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who dedicated so much of their time and effort in making this a great season of Titans football, more thanks to Charlie for… well for being Charlie, and to Lisa for somehow pulling the whole mess all together.
The Province
Thu Oct 28 2010
Page: A46
Section: Sports
Byline: Lowell Ullrich
Source: The Province
It’s him again.
It takes a special breed to agree to work for a CFL team which had already cut him twice this season but once again Doug Goldsby was back with the B.C. Lions Wednesday, hoping the third time is a charm.
The 23-year-old UBC product from White Rock definitely gets marks for perseverance. Twice this year he has been deleted off the practice roster of the Lions, yet he still believed in their sincerity when told the club needed non-import depth on special teams after the recent season-ending injuries to Davis Sanchez and J.R. LaRose.
“I want to do this,” Goldsby said after signing a practice roster agreement. “The question is always ‘do you give up’ and for me that answer is ‘no’.”
A dual citizen who was born in the U.S., the appeal to Goldsby is his classification as a non-import despite the fact he played high school football in Blaine, Wash. He spent last season with the Montreal Alouettes, and every time he gets cut by the Lions he goes back to work on finishing his UBC degree or helps coach the midget team with the White Rock Titans.
“I haven’t taken a day off yet,” he said.
Coach/GM Wally Buono became aware of Goldsby when he went to watch his son, Michael, play for the Titans after moving from Calgary. Not only did Goldsby catch his eye, so did kicker Sean Whyte and receiver Josh Boden, and Buono vowed one day he’d sign all three.
Getting cut wasn’t difficult the first time and was worse on Goldsby’s friends when it happened again. “It’s such a public occupation; they wonder what you’re doing,” he said. “But I’d always got positive reinforcement from the coaches.”
The goal now is to get an invitation to camp next year, providing Goldsby isn’t cut a third time. If he does, he won’t need directions to Buono’s office.
For the first time in many years the Midget Titans have a solid roster with depth at many positions, but they also have bench strength like never before coming in the form of the support, enthusiasm and positive attitude from their younger and less experienced players on the sidelines.
The support our younger Titans Midget players has been fantastic, their energy is contagious and it really helps to pump up our first line guys, on and off the field.