Shellbrook baseball coach Jamie Capner (left) receives his award from a member of Baseball Sask. on Oct. 23, 2022. (Baseball Sask./Twitter)

By Logan Lehmann

Baseball Sask. Awards

Shellbrook baseball coach wins ‘Builder of the Year’ award from Baseball Sask.

Oct 26, 2022 | 4:00 PM

A local baseball coach from Shellbrook has won one of the sport’s most prestigious awards.

Head coach of the provincial champion U11 Shellbrook Knights, Jamie Capner received the award during the annual Baseball Sask. Awards on Sunday, where he says the award “came out of left field.”

“It was more surprising than anything,” he said. “I didn’t even know anybody put me up for it but later on, I found out that a small group of people from town put my name in and it was good to hear, and exciting at the same time.”

In order to win the award, the person must have been nominated by someone else, like a player or a parent, and has to have had an outlasting and game-changing impression of baseball in the community over the past few years.

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The qualifications needed to be nominated for the ‘Builder of the Year’ award from Baseball Sask. (Baseball Sask.)

According to Capner, before he stepped in as a baseball coach, the game was pretty much non-existent in the community.

“We never had baseball in Shellbrook. Its been a softball town for the last 20-plus years,” he said. “I came in and I wanted to get a baseball team started for my son’s age group which we started two years ago, and it just sprouted from there.”

He added the program saw a new high of 80 kids playing baseball this past season and they’re looking forward to even more next year.

Capner rounded out his comments by saying that he’s grateful for the award and that he thanks the community for their ongoing support.

“(The award) means a lot, it means that all the work we’re putting in making the program work isn’t going unnoticed,” he said. “It shows that we’re doing something right, even if you think you’re doing nothing right. So it’s really nice to hear that people are appreciating what we’re doing in the community.”

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