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BlackBerry CIS athletes of the week (#8): OUA cross country champions honoured
OTTAWA (CIS) – Cross country runners Jessica Pearo of
McMaster and Alex Genest of Guelph are the BlackBerry Canadian
Interuniversity Sport female and male athletes of the week for the
period ending Oct. 31, 2010.
Pearo, a fourth-year kinesiology student from Richmond Hill, Ont.,
became the first McMaster woman in history to win OUA gold last
Saturday when she finished the five-kilometre championship race in
a personal-best time of 17:00.04, a full 13 seconds ahead of her
closest rival, Guelph all-Canadian Rachel Cliff. A three-time
all-Canadian herself and the fifth-place finisher at last
year’s CIS meet, Pearo lifted the Marauders to second place
in the women’s team standings, trailing only seven-time
conference champion Guelph.
Fellow cross country runners Caroline Schlosser of Dalhousie and
Sarah McCuaig of McGill, as well as Calgary hockey player Hayley
Wickenheiser were also nominated for the women’s award.
Genest, a fourth-year student from Lac-aux-Sables, Que., was
dominant in his first career appearance in the 10-kilometre OUA
championship race claiming individual gold in a time of 30:30.5,
nine seconds ahead of Gryphon teammate Kyle Boorsma, the 2009 CIS
silver medallist. Genest, who transferred to Guelph this year after
competing for Sherbrooke in the Quebec conference for three
seasons, helped the Gryphon men set the OUA record for lowest team
score en route to their sixth straight Ontario banner. The 5-foot-9
senior was the CIS silver medallist and male rookie of the year in
2006 and the CIS individual champion in 2007 while at
Sherbrooke.
Dalhousie’s Dan Gorman and Sherbrooke’s Olivier-Gabriel
Lavoie, both cross country runners, and Saskatchewan soccer player
Josh Northey were the other male nominees.
Female nominees:
AUS: Caroline Schlosser, cross country, Dalhousie
RSEQ: Sarah McCuaig, cross country, McGill
OUA: Jessica Pearo, cross country, McMaster (recipient)
CWUAA: Hayley Wickenheiser, hockey, Calgary
Male nominees:
AUS: Dan Gorman, cross country, Dalhousie
RSEQ: Olivier-Gabriel Lavoie, cross country, Sherbrooke
OUA: Alex Genest, cross country, Guelph
(recipient)
CWUAA: Josh Northey, soccer, Saskatchewan
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