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Action photos courtesy
Dan Brodie Photography
2011 Surrey Junior Rebels
Back Row:
Padraic Lawrence, Frank Geyer, Brandon St. Pierre,
David Goodwin, John McBride,
Tyler Voisey, Timmy Tammen, Conor Campbell, Ted
Richards, Travis Schmidt, Brandon Baldo,
Max
Richards, James Main, Brad Olson, Graeme Harkison,
Andrew McBride.
Front Row:
Harrison Mortimer, Mike Meldrum, Bobby Tammen,
Vaughn Readman, Derek Kolins, Garrett Ewasiuk, Jeff
Geyer.
Missing:
Dennis Farshi, Eamon Butler, Brett Hall, Mat
Cruickshank, Jonathan Rakic, Trent Wittal, Bruce
Cruickshank
In 2011, the Surrey Rebels completed its
sixth season in the West Coast Junior
Lacrosse League and would like to again
thank all of its volunteers, sponsors, fans
and the Surrey Lacrosse Association for
their support. While the team
struggled during the season and failed to
make the playoffs, we still managed to draw
good crowds to our home games
We got
off to a reasonably good start and hung on to playoff spot for
the first half of the season, however for the second straight
year a prolonged winless streak made things dicey and despite
winning our final two games, this time we were on the outside
looking in – finishing two points out of the eighth and final
playoff with a record of 6-12-2.
Individual highlights included Brad Olson placing 7th in league
assists with 30 and tied for 12th in scoring with 49 points, Max
Richards tied for 13th in scoring with 46 points,
and goalie Jeff Geyer
finishing 3rd in minutes played, 2nd in shots faced and shots
stopped, and 6th in save percentage.
Olson and captain Bobby Tammen were named to the WCJLL
All-Star Team, who narrowly lost to the Vancouver Island
All-Stars in the Canada Day Classic.
I
would like to thank head coach Padraic Lawrence, his assistant
coaches Ted Richards, Andrew Lawrence and Bruce Cruickshank,
trainer Trent Wittal and our secretary-treasurer Christine Geyer
for doing a great job as we steered the Juniors through another
difficult season.
We
will be graduating five players from the Junior program (Geyer,
Tammen, Tyler Voisey, Graeme Harkison and Brett Hall), and we
wish them the best in their lacrosse careers. We expect
most of the 17 remaining players to return for the 2011 season
and fully expect the majority of the 13 Intermediate Rebels
graduates to be out at training camp vying for the vacant roster
spots, along with graduates of the Semiahmoo Rock Intermediate
program.
Darren St. Pierre will be taking over the reins of the
team as Governor, effective October 1st, and will assemble his
management team and coaching staff for 2011 in upcoming months
Financially, the team did well in 2011 despite lower than
expected registration fees, 50/50 revenues and sponsorship, and
the loss of gaming grants making up 1/3 of annual team revenue.
Special thanks go out to our major team sponsor Unitech
Construction Management who helped make up for a good portion of
the lost gaming revenue.
I
would like to express my thanks again to Dennis Ewen and the SLA
Executive for their continued support of our senior programs.
Both Christine and I have decided to retire from Surrey Lacrosse
after 14 seasons, the past five with the Intermediate Rebels
after founding the program in 2007 and the past three with the
Junior Rebels, as our son graduates from junior to pursue other
senior lacrosse endeavours.
F.J.
(Frank) Geyer
Governor/General Manager
Surrey Rebels Junior Lacrosse Club (2011)
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