Velma Springstead Trophy

The Velma Springstead Trophy is an award given every year to very good female athletes. It is named after the track athlete Velma Springstead who died from pneumonia when she was only 20 in 1927. The Women's Amateur Athletic Federation (WAAF) of Canada founded the award in 1934. The trophy was donated by Alexandrine Gibb. They were a sportswriter with the Toronto Star.[1] The award is now managed by the True Sport Foundation.[2]

People who earned the trophy

Related pages

Further reading

  • Hall, M. Ann (2002), The girl and the game : a history of women's sport in Canada, Broadview Press ISBN 1-55111-268-X

Other websites

References

  1. Biography – SPRINGSTEAD, VELMA AGNES – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/springstead_velma_agnes_15E.html. Retrieved 2017-08-30. 
  2. Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada : Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues. Forsyth, Janice Evelyn., Giles, Audrey R. Vancouver [B.C.]: UBC Press. 2013. ISBN 9780774824231. OCLC 821299075.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)