Brock athletes earn highest marks
Female wrestler, men’s hockey players named athletes of the year for 2017-18
Wrestler Jessica Brouillette and hockey player Clint Windsor are Brock University’s athletes of the year for 2017-18.
Brouillette, a member of the women’s wrestling team that earned team of the year honours, was the first Brock female wrestler to win five consecutive national team championships in a career and the third to win four individual national titles.
“It was really exciting and really special to win the team and individual titles at nationals in my last event as a Brock student-athlete,” said the Barrie native, who in 2017-18 was named a first-time All-Canadian for the fourth time.
During the regular season the fifth-year captain placed first at the Brock Open, second at the Guelph Open and Simon Fraser University International and third at the Commonwealth Games Trials. Brouillette represented Team Canada at the 2018 Women’s World Cup earlier this month in Japan.
Windsor turned in one of the best-ever performances by a Brock goaltender as he backstopped the Badgers to the national championships for just the second time in the program’s history.
“There have been a lot of great athletes
who have have come through Brock, and to be named male athlete of the year is something I would have never dreamed of,” the Hamilton native said at the awards banquet Wednesday night at Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference in St. Catharines.
“It is an incredible token to take away from my time at Brock.”
He finished the regular season first in
the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) conference in games, with 26; starts, 26, minutes played, 1,530.49; saves, 853; and save percentage, .930. Windsor’s 12 wins and 2.51 goals-against average were fifth and seventh in the conference, respectively.
In addition to being named the OUA goaltender of the year and a first-team OUA All-Star, Windsor was named an Academic All-Canadian.
He led the Badgers to series wins over Laurier, Guelph and York in the playoffs as Brock earned the silver medal in the OUA championships.
Other major awards:
R.M. Davis Surgite Award: Marcelo Correa, Indaiatube, Brazil, volleyball
David Atkinson Surgite Award: Brenna Murphy, Odessa, Ont., hockey
Dallas Beaton Howe Award: Katelyn Heyens, La Salette, Ont., rugby; Ian
Pierce, Grimsby, rowing
David S. Howes Spirit of Brock Athletics Award: Pierce; Claire Shaw, Rosemount, Ont., squash
Coach of the year: Marty Williamson, men’s hockey
Brock Sports Director’s Award: Sandie Bolibruck, Crispin Bottomley, Joe Kenny
Tom Kearney Athletic Therapy Award: Daniel Krasulja, Mackenzie Sabourin
Brock Sports Performance Awards: Sara Scott, Taylor Tiessen
Teams of the year: men’s wrestling, women’s wrestling
Brock teams captured five provincial and three national championships in 201718, giving the university 123 total championships in school history.
The Badgers also took two OUA silver medals and one bronze, a bronze at nationals as well as a third-place finish at a world championshops and silver at the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association men’s championships.