Women’s Hockey News

Dan Hayfield of StFX X-men and Madeline Albert from Toronto Varsity Blues are the U SPORTS Male and Female Athletes of the Week for the period ending October 22, 2017.

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A third-year arts student from Exeter, England, Hayfield had four points in a pair of weekend wins at home which helped the X-Men clinch second place in the AUS standings and a bye through to the semi-final round of the playoffs. He notched two goals, including the game-winner, and added an assist in StFX’s 4-0 win over the Mount Allison Mounties on Saturday. Sunday, he scored the lone goal in the X-Men’s 1-0 win over the Dalhousie Tigers. With one week of regular season play remaining, Hayfield is currently tied for fourth in the nation in goals with 12 on the season.

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Rookie goalie Madeline Albert combined for 51 saves and recorded two shut outs in her first two U SPORTS starts in leading the Varsity Blues women's hockey team to a four-point season-opening weekend. Albert became the first U of T goalie to record back-to-back shut outs since two-time all-Canadian Stephanie Lockert in 2007-08. The humanities major from Whitby, Ont., posted 22 saves in Toronto's dominant 7-0 victory over the York Lions on Thursday night. She followed that up with a 29-save performance as the Blues topped the Laurier Golden Hawks, 2-0, in Brantford.

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Male nominees:

  • CW: Dylan Bredo, hockey, Alberta
  • OUA: Evan MacEachern, hockey, Toronto
  • RSEQ: Basil More-Chevalier, soccer, Laval
  • AUS: Dan Hayfield, soccer, StFX (winner) 

Female nominees:

  • CW: Sara McCreary, volleyball, UBC Okanagan
  • OUA: Madeline Albert, hockey, Toronto (winner)
  • RSEQ: Marie-Alex Bélanger, volleyball, Montréal
  • AUS: Tamara Dondi, rugby, Acadia 

- Player bios courtesy U SPORTS member conferences