Sports in brief: Wesmen announces award winners

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The University of Winnipeg Wesmen has announced its athletes of the year.

Mikael Clegg, a fifth-year setter on the men’s volleyball team and Emma Parker, a third-year left-side player on the women’s team, were the 2019-20 winners.

The organization announced the award winners through a video presentation on its Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube feeds on April 24.

Clegg, from St. Andrews, Man., helped lead an offence that resulted in two of his teammates earning all-star awards. Daniel Thiessen was named first-team all-Canada West and second-team all-Canadian, while Liam Kristjanson was named to the all-conference rookie team.

This season, Clegg posted the second-highest total of assists in Wesmen Canada West history and finished his career in the top 10 in Canada West history for assists. He appeared in all 22 conference matches, running his career consecutive conference matches played stretch to 92.

Parker finished fourth in the conference and fifth in the country, in kills (290), fifth in kills per set (3.22) and set career-highs for total blocks (23) and points (323). She also set a new career-high for kills in a match with 21, doing that twice.

In addition, Parker was 15th in Canada West in digs with 252, two off her career-high set a season ago.

Among the other award winners, Liam  Kristjanson and Anna Kernaghan of women’s basketball were named the male and female rookies of the year.

Madison Fyvie of women’s volleyball and Will Sesay of men’s basketball were named the most improved athletes.

Robyn Boulanger of women’s basketball was named the Keith Cooper Award winner for commitment to community service. The third-year guard from U of W Collegiate volunteered extensively in the Indigenous community running camps in the Anishinabe Pride and Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata youth programs.

For more information, visit wesmen.ca

— Staff