ELK POINT - Each year, the Wally A. Footz Builders Award is presented by Baseball Alberta for outstanding efforts in structure, promotion and development of amateur baseball in Alberta. This year’s Baseball Alberta awards were presented on Saturday, Nov. 25 in Edmonton, where the recipient of this year’s Wally Footz award was Dennell Anderson from Elk Point.
Word from Baseball Alberta states that Dennell has been active with baseball in the Lakeland area for the past 20 years. She has coached at every age category of baseball from U7 Rally Cap to U 18 and has been in the role of president for the Elk Point Minor Ball association for the past decade.
On top of her presidential duties for Elk Point, Dennell is also the President of the Lakeland Minor Ball league, which includes baseball and softball divisions and stretches from Lloydminster to Cold Lake to Kikino and down to Vermilion.
Dennell has been a key figure in bringing a half dozen provincial championships host weekends to the area. Throughout the ball season Dennell can be found at the baseball field numerous times a week, She is always doing something to help the local community upkeep their fields from whacking weeds, to filling gopher holes or repairing fences on top of being a field crew member repairing the batter’s boxes and pitching mounds. Dennell has meant so much to the community that when a new U 13 field was built it was named Anderson Field in recognition of the countless volunteer work she has done to support and build the game of baseball.
*With files from Doug Bassett
