Emily Oleksuk of the Tommies women’s hockey team and Kyle Yearwood of the men’s soccer squad were named the Tommies Coors Light Athletes of the Week for the week of Oct. 17.
Oleksuk, a second-year forward from Thunder Bay, Ont., scored the go-ahead goal in regulation during the Tommies’ home opener Oct. 15 against the Saint Mary’s University Huskies.
The Tommies won the game 4-3 in overtime.
Oleksuk also netted the tying goal Oct. 16 against the St. Francis Xavier University X-Women en route to a 5-3 Tommies victory – which marked the team’s second consecutive win in regular season play.
Yearwood, a rookie midfielder from Barbados, scored the tying goal in the 75th minute on Oct. 16 against the Mount Saint Vincent University Mystics on home turf.
The match between the Tommies and Mystics ended in a 1-1 draw.
Lloy leads Tommies at golf nationals
Jake Lloy had the lowest score amongst St. Thomas University golfers at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Golf Championships from Oct. 19 to 21 in Stratford, P.E.I.
Lloy’s three-day score was 240 after shooting 80 on Day 1, 78 on Day 2 and 82 on Day 3 for 58th place.
Doug MacFarlane recorded a total score of 261 (90, 87, 84) at the national tournament and finished 74th, while Jonah Burridge was five strokes behind at 266 (88, 90, 88) after three days on the links.
Todd Legere came in 75th after shooting 276 (88, 94, 94), while Morgan Matheson was 75th and last overall with a three-day score of 297 (98, 102, 97).
Josiah Dickson of Niagara College in Ontario and Marc-Olivier Plasse of Cégep André-Laurendeau in Montreal were the individual national champions after they both recorded three-day scores of 211.
Terry paces STU runners at cross-country meet
Ryan Terry was the highest Tommies finisher at the Atlantic University Sport and Quebec Student Sport Federation interlock meet held by STU and the University of New Brunswick Saturday, Oct. 15, at Odell Park in Fredericton.
Terry’s time in the 10-kilometre race was 29:11.34, good for 80th place out of 129 male runners.
Will Leek was the next-highest STU runner. He recorded a time of 34:41.47 to finish 122nd.
Matt Dumont of the Tommies posted a time of 38:30.27 and came in 126th.
Jared Nolan was two seconds behind him in 127th place with a time of 38:32.51.
Nathaniel Legere was the lowest Tommies finisher at 40:01.69. He placed 128th.
In the women’s six-kilometre event, the highest-finishing Tommie was Chelsey Hall, whose time was 25:56.25. Hall finished 82nd out of 143 total runners.
Demara Pafford of STU was 125th with a time of 30:11.43, while Noelle Gouchie placed 129th and posted a time of 31:08.36.
Jenna Moar of the Tommies came in 138th place. Her time was 32:59.54.
Other STU women’s runners were Jensen Elliot in 141st place with a time of 35:58.38 and Alexandra Hachey, who finished almost a minute behind in 142nd place. Hachey’s time was 36:39.49.
National governing body rebrands itself
One of the governing bodies of university sports in Canada has a new name and logo.
At two press conferences on Thursday, Oct. 20, in Ontario and Quebec, it was announced that Canadian University Sport – also known as the CIS – is now called U Sports.
This is the second rebranding of this national governing body, as the former Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union became the CIS back in 2001.
The new U Sports logo includes the letter “U” that signifies “university.”
It also has the word “sports” and a red maple leaf in the middle in honour of the 56 universities the organization represents.
Toronto Star reporter Morgan Campbell reported that U Sports officials said they needed a name that worked in English and French and saves fans from having to remember another acronym.
Campbell wrote that U Sports officials also hope to market Canada’s schools and athletes to more potential fans and sponsors.
The only STU teams that com pete in U Sports, which oversees the AUS, are the women’s hockey squad, the track and field team and the cross-country team.
All other Tommies squads play in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association, which is governed by the CCAA.
