Cornish nets 3-peat of Booster Club’s male athlete of year award
Jon Cornish has been named the Calgary Booster Club’s male athlete of the year. Again.
The Calgary Stampeders’ star running back has won the honour three straight years. And 2013 had been another spectacular one for Cornish — Lou Marsh Memorial Trophy as Canada’s top athlete, Canadian Football League’s most outstanding player and most outstanding Canadian.
By gaining 1,813 yards, Cornish, 29, nailed down his second consecutive rushing title.
The Booster Club’s Annual Sportsman of the Year Dinner — April 15 at Canada Olympic Park WinSport — will recognize Cornish; Kaillie Humphries, female athlete of the year; Jennifer
Riddell, inaugural Calgary Special Olympics athlete of the year.
Members of the Stamps who have won the award — Don Luzzi (1959), Harvie Wylie (1963),
Lovell Coleman (1965), Wayne Harris (1967), John Helton (1973), Willie Burden (1976), James Sykes (1981), Rick Johnson (1987), Dave Sapunjis (1994), Jeff Garcia (1999), Dave Dickenson (2001), Henry Burris (2009). EXTRA POINTS … On the eve of CFL free agency, the Stamps announced the signings of a pair of imports — linebacker Keith Pough and defensive back O’Hara Fluellen. Pough — a star at Howard University — attended Buffalo Bills training camp last summer, while Fluellen — who is second in career INTs at Lincoln University — was at the Seattle Seahawks’ mini-camp last spring … CFL free agency opens at 10 a.m. MST on Tuesday morning. Stamps head coach/GM John Hufnagel has said he isn’t likely to be a major player, but told the Herald last week: “I’ll be shopping. But I don’t see ourselves hitting it with a flurry.” … On Monday night, the Stamps dealt the 26th pick in the 2014 draft, along with the rights to pending UFA Chris Randle to Winnipeg for the 24th pick.