Nominations are now open for the 2015 Ontario Coaching Excellence Awards, which will be presented Sept. 19 in Toronto. Coaches will be honoured for their contributions to community and sport in the following categories:

• Grassroots Coach (1 male, 1 female) – Leaders who are inspirational role models in the community.
• Good-to-Great Coach (1 female, 1 male) – Coaches focused on performance excellence and competing to win.
• Trailblazer Coach – An innovative out-of-the-box thinker.
• Everyone Matters Coach – A Coach who is dedicated to diversity. 
• Andy Higgins Lifetime Achievement Award: An outstanding coach who has made a significant contribution to coaching in Ontario over a long sustained period of time—20+ years.

Deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

For more information on the categories and to download the nomination forms, please check out the CAO Awards web page. If you have any questions, call or email Brooke at (416) 426-7001 or brooke@coachesontario.ca.