Beukeboom earns AUS Athlete of the Week honors

ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY SPORT SUBWAY ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Week Ending September 19, 2010

Tyson Beukeboom of the CIS No. 3 ranked and defending AUS champion StFX women’s rugby team is the Atlantic University Sport Subway Female Athlete of the Week for the week ending September 19th, 2010. Tyson, a #8 player, is a second year Human Kinetics student from Oxbridge, ON. She played another strong game for the X-Women this past weekend in their 67-0 shutout win over the Saint Mary’s Huskies on Sunday afternoon, improving StFX’s season record to 2-0. Beukeboom was a force throughout the contest as she scored 10 points for the X-Women with two tries in the game, and currently leads the 2010 Atlantic conference scoring race with 20 points scored. Tyson was a tournament all-star at the 2009 CIS Women’s Rugby Championship and was named the X-Women’s rookie of the year.

Female Athlete of the Week
Tyson Beukeboom
Women’s Rugby
StFX University
2nd year
Oxbridge, ON

Keeper Adam Miller of the CIS No. 5 ranked Saint Mary’s Huskies men’s soccer team is the Atlantic University Sport Subway Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending September 19th, 2010. Miller, a first year student-athlete from Halifax, N.S., picked up a pair of road wins this past weekend as the Huskies improved their regular season record to a perfect 4-0-0. On Saturday, Adam picked up his third consecutive shutout in as many starts, as Saint Mary’s blanked the UPEI Panthers by a score of 3-0 in Charlottetown. Sunday afternoon at Mount Allison, Miller allowed just his first goal of the season in a 5-1 road win over the Mounties. Adam is currently tied for the Atlantic conference lead in shutouts (3), goals against average (0.25) and wins with four.

Male Athlete of the Week
Adam Miller
Men’s Soccer
Saint Mary’s University
1st year
Halifax, NS