Wilson becomes 40th McGill player to earn CIS women's soccer all-Canadian honours
Kelsey Wilson, a 5-foot-6 defender on the McGill women's soccer team., earned first-team all-Canadian honours during a gala banquet held on the eve of the CIS soccer championship, at the Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel in Toronto, Wednesday.
She becomes the team's 40th all-Canadian since the CIS initiated the women's soccer nationals in 1987.
A 22-year-old psychology senior from Pincourt, Que., Wilson was second on the team in scoring with a career-high nine points, including four goals. She was selected seven times in 14 games by opposing coaches as McGill's top player. A two-time all-star along the Martlets backline, she tallied six goals and an equal number of assists in 47 career regular season ontests.
Other award winners announced went to Sherbrooke striker Marie-Ève Jacques (player of the year), Western defender Jenna White (rookie of the year), Alberta striker Julia Ignacio (Student-Athlete Community Service Award) and Western's Martin Painter (coach of the year).
Joining wilson on the first team was Jacques and Ignacio, along with Ottawa goalkeeper Cynthia Leblanc, defenders Brigitte Greig of Victoria and Kristy McGregor-Bales of Dalhousie, midfielders Julia Francki of Ottawa, Vanessa Kovacs of Trinity Western and Sarah Wong of York, as well as strikers Emily Brown of Laurier and Karolyne Blain of Cape Breton.
The second dream squad is comprised of UBC keeper Alyssa Williamson, defenders Diana Esteireiro of Toronto, Shalla Kadima of Alberta and Virginie Lévesque of Montreal, midfielders Laura Chénard of Montreal, Robbyn McNeill of Cape Breton, Joanna Blodgett of Dalhousie and Jaclyn Sawicki of Victoria, as well as Trinity Western forward Krista Gommeringer.
Brown (2012), Blain (2011), Kadima (2010), McNeill (2012), Sawicki (2011) and Gommeringer (2012) all became two-time CIS all-stars.
The 2013 CIS championship gets under way Thursday at the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium and culminates Sunday with the national final set for 4:30 p.m. All 11 games from the eight-team tournament will be webcast live on www.CIS-SIC.tv.
Official championship website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/wsoc/index
CIS WOMEN'S SOCCER: 2013 AWARDS & ALL-CANADIANS
Chantal Navert Memorial Award (player of the year): Marie-Ève Jacques, Sherbrooke
Rookie of the year: Jenna White, Western
Student-Athlete Community Service Award: Julia Ignacio, Alberta
Coach of the year: Martin Painter, Western
McGILL'S CIS ALL-CANADIANS
1987 Naomi Hasegawa
1987 Michelle Seveno
1989 Nathalie Ioanidis
1989 Jocelyn Dutil
1989 Gayle Noble
1990 Nathalie Ioanidis
1990 Jocelyn Dutil
1991 Luce Mongrain
1991 Nathalie Ioanidis
1997 Odile Desbois
1999 Julia Scrase
1999 Eva Melamed
1999 Alanna Maloney
2000 Ashlee Gentry
2000 Sophie Labrom
2000 Amber Allen
2001 Eva Melamed
2001 Ashlee Gentry
2001 Amber Allen
2002 Alanna Maloney
2002 Nicole Shepherd
2003 Nicole Shepherd
2003 Shari Fraser
2004 Danielle Day
2004 Eloise Vandal
2004 Morag Mitchell-Carvalho
2004 Alanna Maloney
2005 Shari Fraser
2005 Eloise Vandal
2006 Eloise Vandal
2006 Shari Fraser
2007 Karlie Kennedy-Cross
2009 Katherine Green
2010 Katherine Green
2010 Alexandra Morin-Boucher
2010 Victoria Muccilli
2011 Alexandria Hoyte
2012 Bahar Sansar
2012 Hannah Rivkin
2013 Kelsey Wilson
