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±«ÓãÖ±²¥'s Verreault-Paul honoured as CIS athlete of the week

Published: 8 December 2009

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OTTAWA (CIS) - Lakehead basketball player Tasia McKenna and ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ hockey player Francis Verreault-Paul are the BlackBerry Canadian Interuniversity Sport female and male athletes of the week for the period ending Dec. 6, 2009.

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McKenna, a fourth-year kinesiology student from Timberlea, N.S., exploded for 31 points last Thursday to lead the Thunderwolves (5-3) to a 69-65 win over Toronto in their final conference game of the fall semester. The senior point guard, who leads the OUA and ranks fourth in the nation in scoring with 19.9 points per game, hit six three-point shots in the contest and added six assists without committing a single turnover.

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±«ÓãÖ±²¥ hockey player Vanessa Davidson and Simon Fraser basketball player Laurelle Weigl were also nominated for the women's award.

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Verreault-Paul, a second-year science student from Mashteuiatsh, Que., tallied four goals and seven points as the No. 5-ranked Redmen swept a two-game set against Ryerson, 7-0 and 8-5, to go into the December break with a stellar 12-2 conference mark. The 5-foot-10, 178-pound right winger, who leads the country with 15 goals in 13 outings and is tied for fourth with 28 points, netted a hat-trick including the game-winner and added one assist on Friday, then added a goal and two helpers on Saturday.

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Hockey players Dion Campbell of UNB, Chris Jones of York and Tyler Ruel of UBC were the other male nominees.

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Female nominees:

AUS: No AUS female athlete of the week this week

QSSF: Vanessa Davidson, hockey, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥

OUA: Tasia McKenna, basketball, Lakehead (recipient)

Canada West: Laurelle Weigl, basketball, Simon Fraser

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Male nominees:

AUS: Dion Campbell, hockey, UNB

QSSF: Francis Verreault-Paul, hockey, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ (recipient)

OUA: Chris Jones, hockey, York

Canada West: Tyler Ruel, hockey, UBC

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About Canadian Interuniversity Sport

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Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. Fifty-two universities, 10,000 student-athletes and 550 coaches vie for 21 national championships in 12 different sports. CIS also provides high performance international opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter and Summer Universiades, as well as numerous world university championships. For further information, visit .

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For more information contact:


Michel Bélanger

Manager, Communications & Media Relations

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Ph: (613) 562-5670 ext. 25

Cell: (613) 447-6334

Fax: (613) 562-5669

belanger [at] universitysport.ca


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POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE

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Athlètes de la semaine de SIC BlackBerry McKenna de Lakehead et Verreault-Paul de ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ honorés

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9 décembre 2009

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