Awards
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Charlie Waters of the Cape Breton Capers men’s soccer team and Kiyani Johnson from the York Lions women’s soccer squad are the U SPORTS Male and Female Athletes of the Month for October 2019.
Male Athlete of the Month: Charlie Waters, Cape Breton
October for the Capers, scoring six goals and adding six assists for 12 points in just four games played.
His Cape Breton squad went 4-0-1 through October to finish out the regular season undefeated at 10-0-2 and capture first place in the AUS conference standings.
The 2017 national champions earned a bye through to the semifinal round of the AUS championships, being hosted by CBU in Sydney, N.S.
Waters also earned Subway Player of the Game nods in the Capers’ Oct. 25 game at UNB. Cape Breton won the hard-fought matchup 4-3, with Waters contributing three goals and an assist
Nominees
- CW: No Nominee
- OUA: Fadi Salback, soccer, Ontario Tech
- RSEQ: Jean-Simon Desgagnés, cross country, Laval
- AUS: Charlie Waters, soccer, Cape Breton (winner)
Female Athlete of the Month: Kiyani Johnson, York
Kiyani Johnson scored more goals than any other player in the OUA in the month of October, propelling the York Lions to their first OUA Final Four appearance since 2015.
The fourth-year forward began the month by scoring the winning goal in a 1-0 win over McMaster and ended the regular season with a hat-trick in a 5-1 victory over Windsor to secure third place in the OUA West Division standings. Between those two games she tallied another three goals, including one against Western that was just the second goal they allowed all year, to finish with 11 on the season, putting her second overall in conference scoring and tied for third in the country. She added an assist on the lone goal in the Lions’ 1-0 first-round playoff win over Waterloo and led all players with two shots on goal in their quarter-final triumph over Guelph.
The Lions ended September with a 2-1-4 record, but thanks in large part to Johnson’s torrid scoring pace, they went 8-0-1 in the month of October, reaching the OUA semifinals and moving up to No. 9 in the U SPORTS national rankings.
Nominees
- CW: No Nominee
- OUA: Kiyani Johnson, soccer, York (winner)
- RSEQ: Mélissa Roy, soccer UQAM
- AUS: Alliyah Rowe, soccer, Cape Breton
- Player bios courtesy U SPORTS member conferences