Korissa Williams, a basketball player from the University of Windsor, and Ross Proudfoot, a cross country and track star from the University of Guelph, are the BLG Award winners as Canadian Interuniversity Sport female and male athletes of the year for the 2014-15 season.
Canadian Interuniversity Sport and national law firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) announced Wednesday the eight finalists for the 23rd annual BLG Awards.
The BLG Awards were established in 1993 to recognize the top female and male athletes from universities affiliated with CIS.
X-Women rugby lock and CIS tournament MVP Emma Taylor was named the CIS female athlete of the week for the second consecutive week, a very rare accomplishment.
Tournament MVP Emma Taylor of Scotsburn, N.S., scored two tries as the St. Francis Xavier X-Women captured their fourth Monilex Trophy thanks to a spectacular 43-34 win over the McMaster Marauders in the highest-scoring CIS women’s rugby final in history at the University of Guelph’s Alumni Stadium, Sunday afternoon.
All-Canadian second row Emma Taylor, the AUS conference MVP from Scotsburn, N.S., scored three tries, including the game-winner in the dying moments of regulation, to send the St. Francis Xavier X-Women to the national final thanks to a dramatic 27-24 win over the Western Mustangs at the CIS women’s rugby championship at the University of Guelph’s Alumni Stadium, Saturday morning.
The St. Francis Xavier X-Women exploded for 31 points in the second half, including the last 26 of the match, to beat the 2013 national champion Alberta Pandas 41-17 in the third game of the CIS women’s rugby championship at the University of Guelph’s Alumni Stadium, Friday morning.
X-Women rugby lock Emma Taylor was honored as a CIS All-Canadian Wednesday evening at the CIS awards gala in conjunction with the 2014 national championship.
Emma Taylor, a rugby player from St. Francis Xavier University, and Ross Proudfoot, a cross-country runner from the University of Guelph, are the ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS female and male athletes of the week for the period ending Oct. 26, 2014.
The top-seeded University of Alberta Pandas will try to become the first program in five years to repeat as Monilex Trophy champion this weekend when the best teams in CIS women’s rugby meet in Guelph for the 2014 national tournament.
The seeding, pools and schedule were announced Monday for the 2014 Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s rugby championship, which gets under way later this week in Guelph, Ont.
The StFX X-Women are the 2014 Atlantic University Sport women’s rugby champions after a hard fought 19-12 overtime victory against the Acadia Axewomen Sunday afternoon at Raymond Field.
The CIS No. 2 ranked and first seeded StFX X-Women advanced to the Subway AUS women's rugby championship game after a convincing 100-0 semifinal victory over the fourth seeded Saint Mary's Huskies Saturday afternoon at Acadia University.
X-Women lock Emma Taylor was named the AUS most valuable player, while freshman prop Joanna Alphoso took home AUS rookie of the year honors. Head coach Mike Cavanagh received the AUS coach of the year award.
The CIS No. 1 ranked StFX X-Women (6-0) defeated the Saint Mary's Huskies (0-6) by a 115-0 score Sunday afternoon in the season finale of the AUS rugby season.
The CIS ranked No. 1 X-Women rugby team travelled to Montreal over the Thanksgiving weekend for exhibition action and came home with four victories, claiming wins in each game they played.
The StFX X-Women, ranked #2 in the CIS, remained perfect on the regular season with a 43-12 over the Acadia Axewomen in AUS rugby action Friday evening at Oland Stadium.
The CIS ranked No. 2 StFX X-Women improved to 4-0 on the season with a 34-5 victory over the UPEI Panthers Sunday afternoon in AUS women’s rugby action.
Touted as the match between the undefeated, the CIS No. 3 ranked StFX X-Women outlasted the CIS No. 7 ranked Acadia Axewomen 45-17 Saturday night. With the win the X-Women improve to 3-0 and gain sole possession of first place atop the AUS conference.
The AUS champion and CIS No. 4 ranked X-Women rugby team got out to a dominating start to the 2014 season, defeating the Saint Mary’s Huskies 96-0 Saturday afternoon at the new Huskies Stadium.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. A casual glance at the history of AUS women’s rugby would suggest the St. Francis Xavier X-Women play in a league of their own. All 16 championships are tucked away in Antigonish and many of the banners were won with little opposition. But the women’s rugby world has changed in recent times with more talent coming into the AUS and being spread further afield.
X-Women rugby graduate Olivia DeMerchant was back on campus recently during training camp and chatted with her about her recent silver medal finish with Team Canada at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in Paris.