Philip Alves

Olympic archer Crispin Duenas is jealous — of high school students. That’s what he told a room full of them at the 23rd annual Town Crier Athlete of the Year awards breakfast on June 16.

“Job well done.” With those words, Roy Foss Chevrolet president Sam Alaimo welcomed the city’s best student-athletes to the second annual Vaughan Today Athlete of the Year awards breakfast last Thursday.

Julie Kovac and her sister Elise have always had something of a sibling rivalry. The longstanding one-upmanship between the sisters drives each to be better, Julie says, which made conversation around the dinner table last Thursday interesting.

Joshua Collins knows a thing or two about basketball. And volleyball. Not to mention baseball. The 17-year-old Vaughan Secondary School student has been playing — and excelling at — one sport or another from a very early age, he says.