Awards - Most Valuable Player

PEEWEE BRADSHAW MEMORIAL TROPHY

Jim “Peewee” Bradshaw was raised in St. Catharines, Ontario and excelled in softball, baseball and swimming. Lacrosse was his passion and he won a Minto Cup with the St. Catharines Jr. “A” Athletics in 1950 and was a pick-up for the Brampton Jr. Excelsiors’ when they won the Minto Cup in 1952. He graduated to senior lacrosse competition with the St. Catharines Athletics in 1953, scoring 74 points on 36 goals and 38 assists in his rookie season. After a trip west with Peterborough in 1954 in which they defeated the Victoria Shamrocks to win the Mann Cup, Victoria persuaded him to move out west and he became a member of the Victoria Shamrocks. Like Archie Browning, he was a member of the 1955 Mann Cup winning Shamrock team. While he was racking up points in the senior league, he also took the reigns of the Shamrocks junior squad, leading that team to Minto Cup appearances in 1957 and 1958.

As a player, Peewee was known as a player who was “industrious” and “ever-hustling”. His life was cut short when, in 1959, he was returning from a road game in Nanaimo and the vehicle in which he was a passenger went off the Malahat highway and he was killed.

The Peewee Bradshaw Memorial trophy is given to the player voted the most valuable to his team and has seen many celebrated players’ names inscribed as noted below: