Two-sport stars Ford and de Goede take annual U Sports honours

TORONTO — Tre Ford of the Waterloo Warriors and Sophie de Goede of the Queen’s Gaels were being named winners of the Lois and Doug Mitchell U Sports activities athletes of the calendar year awards on Wednesday night time.

Ford concluded 63.4 for every cent of his passes for 1,465 yards and 10 touchdowns in very last season’s shortened 6-match football agenda. He included 629 hurrying yards and a few speeding TDs en route to winning the Hec Crighton Trophy as the remarkable soccer participant in U Sports.

Ford, from Niagara Falls, Ont., also competed on Waterloo’s monitor and area team. He finished fifth in the 60-metre dash at the countrywide championship.

De Goede, a two-activity star from Toronto, served the Gaels’ rugby and basketball groups earn countrywide medals.

She led the Gaels to their to start with U Sports activities women’s rugby championship in application heritage, ending next in tournament scoring with 42 points.

De Goede afterwards joined the women’s basketball staff and assisted the Gaels acquire a bronze medal at the Closing 8 championship. She averaged 9.8 details a match through the season and led the Ontario convention with an ordinary of 12.1 rebounds a recreation.

“On behalf of our entire membership, congratulations to the two Tre and Sophie on getting named the 2022 U Sports activities athletes of the year,” U Sports interim CEO Dick White explained in a release. “We are proud of your substantial achievements on the discipline of play and in the classroom.

“We look forward to viewing you turn out to be leaders equally in the neighborhood and in the next phase of your athletic and professional professions.”

This report by The Canadian Press was initially printed May possibly 25, 2022. 

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