Awards - Most Valuable Player

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: 

1962
Bill Munroe
1963
Ranjit Dillon
1964
Ranjit Dillon
1965
Ranjit Dillon
1966
 
1967
Ken Alexander
1968
Dennis Somner
1969
 
1970
Jim Lynch
1971
Glen Neuman & Gary Kustaski
1972
John Hamilton & G. Kustaski
1973
John Hamilton
1974
Kevin Alexander
1975
Norm Baker
1976
Kevin Alexander & Bob Cool
1977
Doug Angrove
1978
Doug Angrove
1979
Mike Duch & Bill Thomas
1980
John Crowther
1981
John Crowther
1982
Herb Isherwood
1983
Alton Davis
1984
Alton Davis
1985
Gary Gait
1986
Rick Brown
1987
Paul Gait
1988
Bob Heyes & Greg Pepper
1989
Greg McQuarrie
1990
Greg McQuarrie
1991
G. McQuarrie & Chris Prat
1992
Derek Heyes & Del Halladay
1993
Rob Dawson
1994
 
1995
Devin Dalep & Jake Martin
1996
Mike Maughan
1997
Sean Hayes
1998
Sean Hayes
1999
Ray Dance Jr.
2000
Blaine Manning
2001
Chris McKay
2002
Matt King
2003
Cole Murray
2004
Cole Murray
2005
Shane Pederson
2006
Rhys Duch
2007
Matt Flindell
2008
Matt Flindell
2009
Matt Yager
2010
Casey Jackson
2011
Karsen Leung
2012
Adam Brown
2013
Chris Wardle
2014
Max Fredrickson
2015
Charles Claxton
2016
 Cole Pickup
2017
 Cole Pickup
2018Braylon Lumb2019Zach Manns
2020No Awards Due To Covid Restrictions
2021No Awards Due To Covid Restrictions
2022Patrick Dodds & Denton MacDonald2023Dylan Johannes
2024Luca Pivetta2025