Nomination Process

Nomination Launch Date: November 4th, 2025
Nomination Deadline: January 12, 2026 (No extensions past this date)

Adjudication Committee members

A call for Expressions of Interest to join the 2026 PRESTIGE Awards Adjudication Committee was issued on November 19. The Committee is comprised of a ‘jury’ of the nominees’ peers and industry experts. There are 15 adjudicators in total.

Nicole Kotyk
City of Grande Prairie

Lindsay Smith
Envision Saint John: The Regional Growth Agency

Scott Pritchard
One Eleven Management Group

Jenni Lloyd
Ringette Canada

D’Arcy Hutcheson
Hockey Canada

Doug McLean
McLean Sport and Strategy Inc.

Josh Peacock
Cycling Canada

The Adjudication Process

• Once the Committee is finalized, a meeting is held to discuss the award categories and other changes to the PRESTIGE program in 2026, adjudication timelines, and provide direction on how to adjudicate nominations.
• A rubric is created and will be distributed to assist adjudicators when evaluating nominations.
• To avoid any conflict of interest, adjudicators did not judge nominations to which they had any ties or involvement.  Additionally, adjudicators could only judge events that took place in communities in which they did not reside.
• Adjudications are completed independently and confidentially.
• Adjudicators are each provided with nominations to adjudicate.  Each category will have multiple adjudicators.
• Adjudicators submitted their scores confidentially to Sport Tourism Canada, which in turn tabulates the results. Adjudicators are asked to keep their scores confidential and destroy the nomination entries once they have completed their evaluation process.
• The results are kept confidential until the finalists (top 3 in each category) are announced by STC in January 2026.
• Winners will be announced at the PRESTIGE Awards Gala on March 11, 2026 at Sport Events Congress in Mississauga, ON.

Where in the country did nominations come from?

A total of 55 nominations were received.