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Paul Miller (BSc \u201990) loved spending time outdoors, travelling, and coaching and playing sports.<\/p><\/div>\n
Paul\u2019s friend and former teammate Clark McDougall (BA \u201991) said although Paul was one of the smallest players on the field, he was one of the toughest.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would do anything to get that ball, come up with it and make a play,\u201d McDougall said. \u201cWhether it was making a big hit or working in the dirty areas of the field, he was our guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul and his teammates were a tight-knit group who kept in touch, even after they graduated. They went to each other\u2019s weddings, played together in a men\u2019s travel lacrosse league and attended the Brock Badgers lacrosse team\u2019s 30th anniversary reunion at Brock Homecoming in 2017.<\/p>\n
The fall after Paul went missing, a group of his teammates banded together in an effort to raise awareness. They attended a Brock Badgers lacrosse game, during which the players wore stickers on their helmets of Paul\u2019s jersey number, 12, and #FPM (Find Paul Miller). The following lacrosse season, 15 months after Paul went missing, the group got together a second time to watch the Badgers at home, this time in larger numbers and all wearing Brock lacrosse hoodies in memory of Paul.<\/p>\n
After Paul\u2019s remains were found in December 2019 \u2014 18 months after he disappeared \u2014 Stephanie invited Paul\u2019s friends, family and teammates to donate to a lacrosse scholarship fund she planned to establish in memory of him.<\/p>\n
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Paul Miller (BSc \u201990) was a midfielder with the 1986 Brock Badgers men’s lacrosse team.<\/p><\/div>\n
Stephanie topped up memorial gifts with a personal donation to create The Paul Miller Lacrosse Award, which supports a student-athlete at Brock who is a member of the men’s lacrosse team.<\/p>\n
She said establishing an award that helps a Brock student-athlete was a fitting way to leave a legacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cSports has always been a really big part of who Paul was,\u201d she said. “After university, Paul played and coached lacrosse, baseball and hockey. He also kept busy coaching our two children\u2019s sports teams. If they played it, he coached it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said education was also important to Paul and that Brock holds special meaning to both of them because that\u2019s where they met.<\/p>\n
At the Brock Lacrosse home game on Sunday, Oct. 3, Stephanie presented the Paul Miller Lacrosse Award to the inaugural recipient, Master of Applied Health Sciences student Alex Pace.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot (to receive the award),\u201d Pace said. \u201cI was here at Brock when we were conducting the \u2018Find Paul Miller\u2019 search campaign. I know the meaning this award carries with it. He\u2019s an alumnus, so to be the first recipient of an award in his name is a huge honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The fall after Paul Miller (BSc \u201990) went missing, a group of his teammates attended a Brock Badgers lacrosse game, during which the players wore stickers on their helmets with Paul\u2019s jersey number, 12, and #FPM (Find Paul Miller).<\/p><\/div>\n
Stephanie said as Brock graduates, she and Paul always wanted to give back to the University.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the award can give a student an extra boost so they can focus on school and sports and not have to worry about working a part-time job, it makes a big difference,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want some good to come out of something terrible. Whether that\u2019s helping one student for five years, or hopefully more students with additional donations, I just want to help.\u201d<\/p>\n
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