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Milos Raonic wins second consecutive Canadian Press Male Athlete of the Year Award
For the second consecutive year, Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic has been named the Canadian Press male athlete of the year award.
Raonic, who turns 24 Saturday, is the first to win back-to-back Lionel Conacher awards since Sidney Crosby did it in 2009 and 2010. He's in awfully good company; NBA star Steve Nash and golfer Mike Weir also won two straight. Wayne Gretzky won fought straight from 1980-1983.
He remains the only male tennis player ever to have won the award. Lionel Conacher, for whom the "male athlete of the year" prize is named, was chosen as Canada's athlete of the first half of the 20th century in 1950.
"To be in that group of back-to-back winners of the Conacher Award is really something special," Raonic said in a Tennis Canada press release. "It's guys I looked up to and guys, if you ask me, that I feel are the biggest Canadian sporting icons — at least the generations that I know."
Raonic won it convincingly, earning 35 per cent of the votes from sports media across the country. Drew Doughty of the L.A. Kings finished second with 23 per cent of the votes.
"I did achieve the goals that I specified but I always have this yearning for more, more, more," said Raonic, who has been preparing at his home in Monte Carlo for the 2015 season, which begins in in less than two weeks. "It doesn't matter how much I do, I always want more — especially when it comes to my tennis."
The winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's female athlete of the year will be announced Sunday. Another Canadian tennis star, Eugenie Bouchard, was the recipient of the award in 2013.
Bouchard received 45 per cent of the votes a year ago, in a non-Olympic year. She likely will face stiffer competition this time around even though her accomplishments – including a Wimbledon singles final, her first WTA Tour title and a current world ranking of No. 7 – were far more significant and impressive in 2014.
The 20-year-old from Montreal already has been awarded the CBC's Canadian athlete of the year prize, accompanied by a gushing online tribute.
