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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk with Area Seniors

Joe Sanborn: How You Practise Is How You Play

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By Jim Riddell Sanborn who had recently celebrated was a starter in both sports for all higher level of play. Every practice
a milestone birthday. four years. Drafted into the US was planned and focused on targeted
n Saturday October 27th Born in Portland Maine in army just before the Korean War skills and plays. Structure and focus
Oclose to forty former CCVS 1933 Joe played both football and ended, Joe spent the next two years were the keys to success as Joe
basketball players from the years basketball in the school system. He with the Military Police stationed in believed that how you practised was
1963-81 gathered at the home of made the varsity teams in football Vienna, Austria. how you would play the game. In
Rob Taylor to surprise Coach Joe and basketball in grade nine and the fifteen year period from 1966
Joe had been accepted at Boston
College, but was recruited by St. up to his retirement in 1981, Joe’s
Brought to you by Scores Francis Xavier University for teams won eleven titles and finished
Athlete of the Month football and decided to head up to 2nd four times.

Joe says “I was blessed to have
Antigonish, Nova Scotia. During
Braeden Levac his four years at ST FX Joe played had some excellent coaches with me
football and basketball, winning at CCVS; Bob Barrie, Bob Taylor,
Grade: 12 championships in both sports. Joe and finally Chuck Stewart. Chuck
Age: 17 had two very experienced coaches came onboard around 1970 and we
School: SJCSS at St. Francis Xavier in Frank coached basketball from then on.
Home Town: Cornwall Germain and Don Loney. Watching Chuck and I shared the same passion
December’s Athlete of the Month, Braeden Levac, them during his time with them Joe
was nominated by Saint Joseph’s Catholic Secondary for the game - he won several titles
School athletic director and coach, Jack Chisholm. learned how to coach and motivate with his teams and I won several
“Braeden is a phenomenal athlete,” says Chisholm. athletes to be successful. titles with mine and we worked very
Braeden shines in many sports. He was the Panthers’ While in Antigonish, Joe met his well together”.
Male Athlete of the Year for 2017-18 in his third year
of high school, an honour which is usually won by a grade 12 student. He’s built on future wife Patricia, from St John The following was written by Joe’s
that this fall by making the senior boys’ volleyball and football teams. He racked up NB, who was also studying at St son Dr RJ Sanborn – At the CCVS
some impressive yards on the gridiron. Francis Xavier. After graduation reunion in 2006; several of Joe’s
In the spring, Braeden runs the 100- and 200-meter hurdles, but his sport of choice, Joe taught and coached for one former players were in attendance.
and the one in which he obviously excels, is soccer. He is currently considering
scholarship offers from both Canadian and NCAA schools for ‘The Beautiful Sport’. year at St. Peters in Peterborough The talk was not about the victories
When it comes to academics, Braden is looking forward to studying health sciences before returning to Maine. In 1963 but about the experiences that they
with an eye toward pediatrics. He enjoys the opportunity that athletics gives him to the Sandborns arrived in Cornwall had on his team and how much it
represent his school. with the first three of what would meant to them. More importantly,
Delivery Available eventually become eight children. they cherished their time with Joe

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT It was tough in the beginning and their fellow students and how
SOUP, SALAD AND FRUIT BAR “having to compete with hockey for it developed them into the people

athletes”. Joe calls the first few years that they have become. For Joe, this
at CCVS, “the formative years” is the greatest victory, - one much
where a strategic skill development more important than winning games

960 BROOKDALE AVENUE, CORNWALL system was put in place developing and championships, and is the one
613-935-7777 players so they could move on to a that he cherishes most.