NEWP Impact Award
The Paddle Impact Award recognizes individuals whose outstanding efforts have strengthened NEWP, Inc.’s programs and activities through consistent hard work and leadership. Their efforts have served to make NEWP’s programs and activities possible, and successful in fulfilling NEWP’s mission to encourage and advance paddle sports education and safety.
Recipients of the Paddle Impact Award must be past or present members of NEWP.
To nominate an individual for this award, please complete the online nomination form and submit it to the Awards Committee for consideration.
Past NEWP Impact Award Recipients
Jeff Mazanec, 2022
- Tireless volunteer, event organizer and community leader
- President of NEWP for eleven of the past 13 years
- Has trained hundreds of kayakers through NEWP classes and the Door County Sea Kayak Symposium
- Lead organizer of NEWP’s public paddles and many club trips
- ACA Coastal Kayak Level 3 Instructor