{"id":14542,"date":"2026-04-23T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportottawa.ca\/without-officials-we-wouldnt-have-sports-in-our-city-mayor-sutcliffe-highlights-at-national-officials-day-celebration\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:21:10","slug":"without-officials-we-wouldnt-have-sports-in-our-city-mayor-sutcliffe-highlights-at-national-officials-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportottawa.ca\/fr\/without-officials-we-wouldnt-have-sports-in-our-city-mayor-sutcliffe-highlights-at-national-officials-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018 Sans les officiels, il n'y aurait pas de sport dans notre ville \u2019, a soulign\u00e9 le maire Sutcliffe lors de la c\u00e9l\u00e9bration de la Journ\u00e9e nationale des officiels."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ils ne re\u00e7oivent peut-\u00eatre pas toujours l'amour qu'ils m\u00e9ritent dans le feu de l'action, mais les officiels sportifs ont \u00e9t\u00e9 salu\u00e9s pour tous leurs efforts exceptionnels \u00e0 l'h\u00f4tel de ville, alors que le Conseil des sports d'Ottawa co-organisait un petit-d\u00e9jeuner c\u00e9l\u00e9brant la Journ\u00e9e nationale des officiels le 17 avril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Nous sommes tous convaincus que le sport est quelque chose de sp\u00e9cial : l\u2019excitation partag\u00e9e sur le bord du terrain, les le\u00e7ons tir\u00e9es de la d\u00e9faite et le lieu qu\u2019il offre aux familles pour se connecter \u201d, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Frances Mercer, directrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l\u2019OSC, dans son discours devant un public compos\u00e9 d\u2019officiels de divers sports, soulignant que ces officiels servent de mod\u00e8les aux jeunes athl\u00e8tes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Vous veillez \u00e0 ce que l\u2019environnement demeure respectueux, inclusif et \u00e9quitable \u201d, a-t-elle ajout\u00e9. \u201c En faisant preuve d\u2019int\u00e9grit\u00e9, vous enseignez \u00e0 nos jeunes athl\u00e8tes que le caract\u00e8re compte et, ce faisant, vous devenez une source d\u2019inspiration pour b\u00e2tir une ville d\u2019Ottawa plus forte et plus r\u00e9siliente, une communaut\u00e9 qui respecte les r\u00e8gles, valorise l\u2019\u00e9quit\u00e9 et prend soin les uns des autres. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La conseill\u00e8re municipale de Rideau-Vanier, St\u00e9phanie Plante, a lanc\u00e9 la c\u00e9l\u00e9bration de la Journ\u00e9e nationale des fonctionnaires \u00e0 l'h\u00f4tel de ville l'an dernier et l'a de nouveau co-organis\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plante s'est retrouv\u00e9e propuls\u00e9e dans un r\u00f4le d'arbitre en 2023 lorsque le tournoi de basketball de son fils manquait d'arbitres, et elle a continu\u00e9 \u00e0 d\u00e9velopper ses comp\u00e9tences avec le sifflet lorsqu'elle a l'occasion d'arbitrer des matchs le week-end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dans ses commentaires, Plante a soulign\u00e9 les r\u00e9centes mesures prises par la Ville. annonce de financement pour la construction de terrains de cricket<\/a> et qu'elle entend poursuivre les investissements dans les infrastructures, les officiels et le sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elle a remerci\u00e9 tous les officiels sportifs pour leur contribution et a adress\u00e9 un message personnel aux arbitres f\u00e9minines en particulier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Vous avez \u00e9t\u00e9 de formidables soutiens et de merveilleux mentors, et je ne serais pas l\u00e0 o\u00f9 je suis sans vous \u201d, a soulign\u00e9 Plante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maire d'Ottawa, Mark Sutcliffe, a salu\u00e9 Plante pour son engagement en faveur du r\u00f4le important que jouent les officiels dans le sport, lors de la remise d'une proclamation officielle marquant la Journ\u00e9e nationale des officiels dans la ville d'Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 l'instar des nombreux coll\u00e8gues du conseil municipal pr\u00e9sents \u00e0 l'\u00e9v\u00e9nement \u2013 notamment Theresa Kavanagh, conseill\u00e8re du quartier de Bay, accompagn\u00e9e de son petit-fils, arbitre de baseball \u2013 Sutcliffe a de nombreux liens avec le monde du sport dans sa famille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avec sa fille pratiquant la gymnastique de comp\u00e9tition et son fils le baseball de haut niveau, il a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 comprendre parfaitement les d\u00e9fis que doivent relever les officiels sportifs\u00a0: \u00eatre experts dans leur sport, conna\u00eetre le r\u00e8glement, savoir g\u00e9rer les gens et parfois savoir \u201c\u00a0apaiser les tensions\u00a0\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Nous vous sommes tous tr\u00e8s reconnaissants \u201d, a soulign\u00e9 Sutcliffe. \u201c Sans les officiels, il n'y aurait pas de sport dans notre ville. Nos enfants seraient priv\u00e9s de cette pr\u00e9cieuse opportunit\u00e9 d'acqu\u00e9rir des comp\u00e9tences essentielles et de construire leur avenir. Alors merci pour votre engagement. Merci pour l'impact que vous avez sur notre communaut\u00e9 et, plus particuli\u00e8rement, sur la vie des jeunes. \u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They may not always get the love they deserve in the heat of the action, but sports officials got a tip of the cap for all their exceptional efforts at City Hall as the Ottawa Sport Council co-hosted a breakfast celebrating National Officials Day on April 17. “We all very much believe that sport is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81908012,"featured_media":14478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14529,4526],"tags":[785466121,785466122,785466123,785466124],"class_list":["post-14542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-posts","tag-city-of-ottawa","tag-mark-sutcliffe","tag-national-officials-day","tag-stephanie-plante"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgVRos-3My","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11254,"url":"https:\/\/sportottawa.ca\/fr\/celebrate-national-sport-officials-day-april-17\/","url_meta":{"origin":14542,"position":0},"title":"C\u00e9l\u00e9brez la Journ\u00e9e nationale des officiels sportifs le 17 avril","author":"sportsottawa","date":"avril 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Sports officials have a tremendous impact on the games we love. 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