It was a great night for Brett Gallant at the Sport PEI Awards in Charlottetown, winning both the Cox & Palmer Senior Male Athlete of the Year and the Lieutenant Governor’s Award. Brett is in St. John’s NL preparing for The Brier, but sent along an acceptance video, with his mother Kathie accepting on his behalf. Gallant also won these same 2 awards in 2017.

Brett Gal­lant curled with Team Gushue and mixed dou­bles part­ner Jo­ce­lyn Peter­man in 2019. Team Gushue fin­ished the sea­son ranked fourth af­ter the Brier, where Gal­lant was named a se­cond team all-star. Peter­man and Gal­lant won the Cana­dian mixed dou­bles and took home sil­ver at the world mixed dou­bles cham­pi­onship.

Wrestler Hannah Taylor won the Senior Female Athlete of the Year honours.

Full list of winners:
Lt. Governor’s Award – Brett Gallant, curling.
Cox & Palmer Senior female athlete of the year – Hannah Taylor, wrestling.
Cox & Palmer Senior Male athlete of the year – Brett Gallant, curling.
DP Murphy Hotels Junior Male athlete of the year – Jordan Spence, hockey.
DP Murphy Hotels Junior Female athlete of the year – Kristen Arsenault, archery.
Synergy Fitness & Nutrition Intercollegiate Male athlete of the year – Cole MacLaren, baseball.
Synergy Fitness & Nutrition Intercollegiate Female athlete of the year – Bailey Smith, athletics.
ADL Administrator of the year – Kevin McKenna, baseball.
P.E.I. Mutual Coach of the year – Rob McCormack, baseball.
Score! Event of the year – Credit Union Canadian Ringette Championships
Inspiration Award – Tommy MacGuigan, Special Olympics.
ADL Masters Athlete of the year – Nancy Ripley, triathlon, ironman.
PEI Mutual Official of the year – Mandy Li, taekwondo.
Premier’s Award – Athletics P.E.I.
President’s Award – Kevin Quinn, softball.
CBC P.E.I. team of the year – P.E.I. Wave under-16 ringette.
Participate, Compete and Excel (PCE) Awards – Mikey Perry, judo; Kristen Arsenault, archery; Amy Burk, goalball; Roy Paynter, swimming;

(Info from @SportsGuardian)