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BlackBerry CIS athletes of the week: Western’s Cotten, Calgary’s Vigrass honoured
OTTAWA (CIS) – Western Ontario pentathlete Jen Cotten and
Calgary volleyball player Graham Vigrass are the BlackBerry
Canadian Interuniversity Sport female and male athletes of the week
for the period ending March 14, 2010.
Cotten, a fifth-year sciences student from Barrie, Ont., was chosen
the outstanding female performer of the CIS track and field
championships for the second straight year after she capture her
fourth pentathlon title and finished the meet held at the
University of Windsor with five medals, including two gold. Cotten,
who was named CIS female athlete of the year in field events prior
to the championships, won the pentathlon with 3,947 points and the
long jump with a leap of 5.96 metres, claimed silver in the 60m
hurdles thanks to a personal-best time of 8.55 seconds, and led the
Mustangs’ 4x400 and 4x200 relays to third-place finishes,
including a school-record time of 3:48.48 in the 4x400.
Dalhousie runner Celia Peters, Laval sprinter Geneviève
Thibault and Alberta hockey player Dana Vinge were also nominated
for the women’s award.
Vigrass, a third-year science student from Calgary, was named
tournament MVP at the CIS championship in Kamloops, B.C., after he
guided the sixth-seeded Dinos to their first national title since
1993. The 6-foot-8 right side averaged 4.43 kills per set and was
selected Calgary player of the match twice in three contests,
including the gold-medal final, as the Dinos upset No. 3 Dalhousie
in five sets in the opening round, two-time defending champion and
No. 2 Alberta 3-2 in the semis, and No. 4 Trinity Western in four
games for CIS gold.
Basketball players Jimmy Dorsey of Cape Breton and Jules Diagne of
UQAM, as well as Ottawa long jumper Christopher Greenaway were the
other male nominees.
Female nominees:
AUS: Celia Peters, track & field, Dalhousie
QSSF: Geneviève Thibault, track & field, Laval
OUA: Jen Cotten, track & field, Western Ontario (recipient)
Canada West: Dana Vinge, hockey, Alberta
Male nominees:
AUS: Jimmy Dorsey, basketball, Cape Breton
QSSF: Jules Diagne, basketball, UQAM
OUA: Christopher Greenaway, track & field, Ottawa
Canada West: Graham Vigrass, volleyball, Calgary (recipient)
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