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By Ben Tompkins

Award Winner

Wakaw School Teacher receives dedication for sport award

Jun 23, 2022 | 5:14 PM

A teacher at Wakaw School has received the Horizon Central Athletics Association Distinguished Service Award for his dedication to high school sport.

Carter Haryett coached the football team to a provincial championship against Clavet, earlier this year, in a game that finished 72-64.

Along with that, he has also helped coach badminton, basketball, and track and field, as well as serving as a local referee for both basketball and hockey.

Haryett received the award, earlier this week, as a surprise, during a school assembly.

“We had an assembly to recognize the grads this year and to recognize a couple of our track athletes that had competed at provincials. Our principal then said at the end, we have one more award to give out and he started kind of reading, basically, my summary of what I’ve done here for the last 12 years and I was a little surprised. I was like, holy crap, that’s me, so it was pretty cool.”

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Haryett also mentioned how this award had been handed out to a couple of previous teachers at the school and how nice it felt to join his colleagues.

“It’s nice to get the recognition, I don’t necessarily do it for recognition, but then when you get it, it’s kind of like an extra little bonus. I feel kind of proud to be getting the award after the other people in the division that have gotten it. A lot of the people that I coach against or have coached with have gotten this award and I feel I kind of like joined that level.”

According to Haryett he originally got into coaching when he interned at the school and since then he’s enjoyed it more and more.

“I guess kind of fell into it. I want to intern out here and I got asked to help with football and then I took over for my cooperating teacher who was the manager of the football team and I just actually started really enjoying it. I played at my school and then obviously didn’t do anything with it until I started coaching here and learned quite a bit through it.”

He also explained how it can be used as a great way to connect with students, outside of academics.

“I enjoy coaching students and actually, it makes teaching those students easier because you can relate to them on a different level than just a teacher-student relationship. Now you have a coach and player relationship, so, you know, it gives me a little bit more respect in the classroom automatically.”

Overall, Haryett says he’s proud to have both achieved this accomplishment, as well as be a part of the high school journey for all these kids who play/played, as well as those who now continue to play at a higher level.

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