2010 CIS men's soccer All-Canadians announced
TORONTO (CIS) - Third-year Laval University midfielder Julien Priol was named the Canadian Interuniversity Sport player of the year in men's soccer, Wednesday evening. The native of Quimper, France, became the first-ever Rouge et Or to claim the Joe Johnson memorial trophy as CIS MVP.
Other CIS major award winners announced during the All-Canadian Banquet in Toronto were Alberta forward Marcus Johnstone of Edmonton, who was named rookie of the year; Memorial fullback Andre Le of St. John's, who received the Student-Athlete Community Service award; and St. Francis Xavier's Graham Kennedy, who earned the coach-of-the-year award, presented by Coaches of Canada.
The 2010 CIS championship, hosted by the University of Toronto, gets under way Thursday and culminates with the national final Sunday at 4 p.m. All games from the tournament will be webcast by SSN Canada (www.ssncanada.ca or www.cis-sic.ca)
For all the information on the championship: www.cis-sic.ca
The all-Canadian teams were also announced on Wednesday, with defending national champion Laval leading the way with five selections overall, including three first-team nods.
The 10 players joining Priol on the first CIS squad were conference MVPs Marousek, Pena and Northey, as well as Laval goalkeeper Vincent Cournoyer of St-Hyacinthe, Que.; Toronto's Darragh McGee of Donegal, Ireland, UBC's Jason Gill of Abbotsford, B.C., and Laval's Karim Ziouane of Mulhouse, France, on defence; Alberta's Samuel Lam of Edmonton and Saint Mary's Jonattan Cordoba of Halifax at midfield, and Toronto striker Nordo Gooden of Kingston, Jamaica.
All of them are first-time members of the first all-Canadian unit. Northey made the second team a year ago.
The second CIS squad for 2010 is comprised of Alberta keeper Jaswinder Gill of Edmonton as well as U of A teammate Harman Braich of Edmonton, StFX's Max Maund of Courtenay, B.C., and York's Jamaal Smith of Mississauga, Ont., on defence; Dalhousie's Ross Hagen of Calgary, Cape Breton's Andrew Rigby of Nottingham, England, Waterloo's Mohamed Aborig of Tripoli, Lybia, and Ryerson's Alex Braletic of Thornhill, Ont., at midfield; and Concordia's Matthijs Eppinga of Druchten, Netherlands, and Laval's Gabriel Moreau of St-Hyacinthe, Que., at the striker position.
Hagen, Rigby, Braletic and Moreau were all CIS all-stars a year ago, including first-team selections for Hagen and Rigby. Hagen was also a second-team all-Canadian in 2008.
CIS MEN'S SOCCER: 2010 AWARDS & ALL-CANADIANS
Joe Johnson Memorial trophy (player of the year): Julien Priol, Laval
Rookie of the year: Marcus Johnstone, Alberta
Student-Athlete Community Service award: Andre Le, Memorial
Coach of the year, presented by Coaches of Canada: Graham Kennedy, StFX
First Team
Position Athlete University Year Hometown Faculty
Goalkeeper Vincent Cournoyer Laval 3 St-Hyacinthe, Que. Physical Education & Health
Defence Darragh McGee Toronto 4 Donegal, Ireland Physical Education & Health
Defence Jason Gill UBC 4 Abbotsford, B.C. Arts
Defence Karim Ziouane Laval 1 Mulhouse, France Social Services
Midfield Joshua Northey Saskatchewan 4 Saskatoon, Sask. Arts & Science
Midfield Samuel Lam Alberta 3 Edmonton, Alta. Open Studies
Midfield Julien Priol Laval 3 Quimper, France Masters (communications)
Midfield Michael Marousek StFX 4 Prague, Czech Rep. Human Kinetics
Midfield Jonattan Cordoba Saint Mary's 2 Halifax, N.S. Arts
Striker Adrian Pena York 3 Woodbridge, Ont. Kines. & Health Sci
Striker Nordo Gooden Toronto 5 Kingston, Jamaica Arts & Science
Second Team
Goalkeeper Jaswinder Gill Alberta 4 Edmonton, Alta. Arts
Defence Harman Braich Alberta 5 Edmonton, Alta. Science
Defence Max Maund StFX 2 Courtenay, B.C. Human Kinetics
Defence Jamaal Smith York 5 Mississauga, Ont. Economics
Midfield Ross Hagen Dalhousie 5 Calgary, Alta. Commerce
Midfield Andrew Rigby Cape Breton 2 Nottingham, Eng. BACS
Midfield Mohamed Aborig Waterloo 3 Tripoli, Libya Chemical Engineering
Midfield Alex Braletic Ryerson 3 Thornhill, Ont. Engineering
Midfield Samuel Georget Laval 3 Segré, France Masters (Psy.)
Striker Matthijs Eppinga Concordia 3 Druchten, Neth. Intl Business
Striker Gabriel Moreau Laval 4 St-Hyacinthe, Que. Geomatics Sciences
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