The City of St. John’s has announced its 2021 Athletes and Team of the Year.

The winners were revealed at the start of council’s public meeting this afternoon.

The City congratulates the 2021 Athletes of the Year.@abby_newhook
Female Athlete of the Year – Marg Davis Memorial Award@lhickey23
Male Athlete of the Year – Tom “Dynamite” Dunne Memorial Award@TeamGushue
Team of the Year- Molson Coors Canada Awardhttps://t.co/MFiqJkYK4J pic.twitter.com/UZffzBp3m2

— City of St. John's (@CityofStJohns) February 28, 2022

U.S. college hockey standout Abby Newhook is the winner of the Marg Davis Memorial Award for female athlete of the year.

Playing for Boston College, she’s been named Hockey East’s Player of the Week several times, was named the Hockey East top rookie for November, and is a finalist for the Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Year Award.

Newhook has also been invited to Hockey Canada’s Women’s NextGen Summer Development camp.

Abby Newhook has been named a finalist for Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Year Award! #ForBoston🦅 https://t.co/v18CoXTgO3 pic.twitter.com/ER49wsIlDb

— Boston College Women's Hockey (@BC_WHockey) February 28, 2022

Liam Hickey is this year’s Male Athlete of the Year, and winner of the Tom “Dynamite” Dunne Memorial Award.

Hickey was a member of Team Canada’s 2021 Para Hockey team, and was recently named an assistant captain for the Winter Para Olympic Games in Beijing.

And finally Team Gushue is, not surprisingly, winner of the Molson Coors Canada team of the year award.

Aside from their gold and bronze Olympic medals, Team Gushue last year won the Boost National in the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling.

They then won the Tim Horton’s curling trials in Saskatoon to book their return tickets to the Olympics.