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2011-12 OUA women's hockey major awards and all-stars announced
Source: OUA Communications
HAMILTON, Ont. – Ontario University Athletics (OUA) is pleased to announce this year’s women’s hockey all-stars and major award winner recipients.
Nine different hockey institutions have players represented on
the 2011-2012 all-stars and awards list, demonstrating the growth
and competition around the league.
Morgan McHaffie of the Queen’s Gaels is this year’s OUA
women’s hockey Player of the Year. The centre from Guelph,
Ont. led the league scoring race from nearly start to finish this
season and ended the year with 16 goals and 22 assists for 38
points. Those 38 points also ranked her fourth in the nation.
McHaffie is the first Gael to earn Player of the Year status since
the 2003-04 season and led Queen’s to a national ranking in
13 of the 14 weeks this season. The third-year player has also been
named a First-Team All-Star.
The Waterloo Warriors had a turn around season in 2011-2012 and
have been rewarded with two major awards. Goaltender Rebecca
Bouwhuis (Orillia, Ont.) is this year’s Rookie of the Year.
The first-year netminder logged the second most minutes among OUA
goalies, finished second in saves with 584, tied for third with
nine wins, third with a 1.95 goals against average, and second with
a 0.933 save percentage. Bouwhuis, the first Warrior ever to earn
Rookie of the Year, has also been named a First-Team All-Star and
to the OUA All-Rookie team.
In his first year as head coach, Warriors bench boss Shaun Reagan
takes home Coach of the Year honours. With just four wins and
finishing out of the playoff picture by 20 points a year ago,
Reagan entered the season with a new plan and was able to get his
players to buy into a new system and right the ship. The Warriors
won ten games this season and finished tied for the final playoff
spot, but came out on the losing end of the tiebreaker. The future
looks bright with Reagan behind the bench in Waterloo.
This year’s Marion Hillard Award nominee is UOIT’s Jill
Morillo (Whitby, Ont.). The award is given to a student-athlete for
outstanding achievement in hockey, academics, and community
involvement. Morillo finished the season third in league scoring
with 32 points and set several program records along the way. The
third-year nuclear engineering student has been an honour roll
student for the past two years and was named a CIS Academic
All-Canadian last year. The Ridgebacks’ captain also stays
active in the community, appearing at fundraisers and elementary
school visits while also volunteering with local hockey
associations at skills clinics and practices. Morillo has also been
named a First-Team All-Star.
Joining Morillo and McHaffie on the First-Team All-Star squad at
forward is Laura Brooker (Fergus, Ont.) of the Laurier Golden
Hawks. Coming off an impressive rookie season that garnered her the
rookie of the year award, Brooker finished tied for fourth in
league scoring with 30 points and tied for second with 17 goals
this year. The gifted goal scorer led the league with six game
winning goals to help Laurier post a 25-0-1 record and earn the top
spot in the national rankings.
Rounding out the First-Team All-Star team are defencemen Jackie
Sollis (West Vancouver, B.C.) of the Guelph Gryphons and Alicia
Martin (Etobicoke, Ont.) of the Golden Hawks. Sollis led all
defencemen in scoring this year with 23 points to earn her first
appearance on the First-Team after being a Second-Team All-Star for
the past two seasons. Fifth-year Alicia Martin is a shut down
defender but had a career year with 16 assists and 17 total points
and earns her second consecutive First-Team All-Star honour.
The Guelph Gryphons have two players on this year’s
Second-Team All-Star squad including forward Erin Small (Pickering,
Ont.) and goaltender Stephanie Nehring (Oshawa, Ont.). Small, a
fifth-year senior, finished second in league scoring with 34 points
and earns her first all-star nod. Rookie goaltender Nehring was one
of only two goalies to reach double digits in wins with 14 and
finished second with a 1.89 goals against average.
Brock’s Jessica Fickel (Fort Erie, Ont.) and Windsor’s
Courtney Spoors (Kingsville, Ont.) round out the forwards on this
year’s Second-Team. Fickel finished tied for fourth with 30
points and topped the leader board with three short handed goals on
the year. In her sophomore season Spoors notched 28 points and held
the longest goal scoring streak on the year at five games, and tied
for the longest point streak after registering a point in 12
straight contests.
Making their first appearances on an all-star team are defencemen
Katie Duncan (Kitchener, Ont.) of Queen’s and Kristen Barbara
(Mount Hope, Ont.) from York who round out the Second-Team
All-Stars. These two all-stars finished tied for fourth among OUA
defencemen with 15 points. Duncan led all blueliners with six goals
on the season while Barbara was also named to the OUA All-Rookie
team.
Two Western Mustangs rookies were rewarded for their breakout
seasons by being named to the OUA All-Rookie team. Stacey Scott
(London, Ont.) led all first year players with 27 points which put
her eighth in overall scoring. Teammate Katelyn Gosling (London,
Ont.) finished second among rookie defencemen with 13 points, good
for sixth amongst all OUA blueliners.
Also selected to the OUA All-Rookie team is Jessica Pinkerton
(Oshawa, Ont.) who notched 14 goals in her debut season, tops among
all rookies, and finished second with 26 points. Her nine power
play goals led the league and helped the Gryphons finish second in
the standings. Rounding out the All-Rookie team is Queen’s
Taryn Pilon (Peterborough, Ont.). The first-year winger dressed in
every game this season and showed both discipline and skill,
recording 21 points and taking only one penalty.
2011-2012 OUA
WOMEN’S HOCKEY MAJOR AWARD WINNERS
Player of the Year: Morgan McHaffie –
Queen’s
Rookie of the Year: Rebecca Bouwhuis –
Waterloo
Marion Hillard Award Nominee: Jill Morillo –
UOIT
Coach of the Year: Shaun Reagan –
Waterloo
2011-2012 OUA
WOMEN’S HOCKEY ALL-STARS
First-Team
Forwards
Jill Morillo – UOIT
Morgan McHaffie – Queen’s
Laura Brooker – Laurier
Defencemen
Jackie Sollis – Guelph
Alicia Martin – Laurier
Goaltender
Rebecca Bouwhuis – Waterloo
Second-Team
Forwards
Erin Small – Guelph
Jessica Fickel – Brock
Courtney Spoors – Windsor
Defencemen
Katie Duncan – Queen’s
Kristen Barbara – York
Goaltender
Stephanie Nehring – Guelph
All-Rookie
Team
Forwards
Stacey Scott – Western
Jessica Pinkerton – Guelph
Taryn Pilon – Queen’s
Defencemen
Kristen Barbara – York
Katelyn Gosling – Western
Goaltender
Rebecca Bouwhuis – Waterloo
-OUA-
