Top athletes at Nipissing are honoured

The Nipissing Lakers handed out their athletic awards last night (Thursday).

Women’s hockey MVP and goalie Jackie Rochefort is the Lakers Female Athlete of the Year.

She was also named to the OUA second all-star team this season.

Nipissing men’s volleyball MVP and leading scorer Steve Wood won Male Athlete of the Year honours.

Rookie of the Year honours go to Women’s Volleyball player Stephanie Armstrong while the Male award goes to Jaaden Lewis on the Men’s Basketball team.

2016-17 OUA All-Stars
Alex Zero – Men’s Soccer
Shelby Dickey – Nordic Skiing
Jordan Cascagnette – Nordic Skiing
Kayden Sim – Nordic Skiing
Marcus Lewis – Men’s Basketball
Justin Shaver – Men’s Basketball
Jaaden Lewis – Men’s Basketball
Jackie Rochefort – Women’s Hockey
Stephanie Armstrong – Women’s Volleyball
Shayla Kessler – Women’s Volleyball
Erika Lapierre – Women’s Volleyball
Tracy Hammerton – Women’s Volleyball
Steve Wood – Men’s Volleyball
Warren Taylor – Men’s Volleyball
Jack Peckham – Men’s Volleyball
Randy Beauchamp – Men’s Volleyball

2016-17 USports All-Stars
Stephanie Armstrong – Women’s Volleyball

Leckie Award
Sam Gleason – Men’s Hockey

M.E. Follis Award
Andrea Young – Women’s Soccer

Constable Andrew Keating Memorial Award
Andrew McWiggan – Men’s Volleyball

Joshua Carfagnini Award
Katie Kozub – Cross Country
Justin Shaver – Men’s Basketball

Lakers Spirit Award
Halden MacGowan

Brian ‘Doc’ Duval Student Trainer of the Year Award
Grainger Munro – Men’s Volleyball
Ben Hankins – Men’s Basketball

Lakers MVP
WBB – Claire Abbott
MBB – Marcus Lewis and Justin Shaver
WCC – Katie Gibson
MCC – Teagan Retty
WHKY – Jackie Rochefort
MHKY – Colin Campbell
LAX – Nick Chaykowsky
WNOR – Shelby Dickey
MNOR – Jordan Cascagnette
WSOC – Shannon Russell
MSOC – Ryan Roy
WVB – Tracy Hammerton
MVB – Steve Wood
ROW – Olivia Jeans and Jordan Cascagnette

Lakers Rookies
WBB – Kendra Dennis
MBB – Jaaden Lewis
WCC – Stephanie Knowles
MCC – Justin Leale
WHKY – Hunter Mosher and Jetta Derenoski
MHKY – Danny Desrochers
LAX – Coleman Bannerman
WNOR – Karly Lockhart
MNOR – Kayden Sim
WSOC – Megan Clarke
MSOC – Cody Vaillancourt
WVB – Stephanie Armstrong
MVB – Mason Blais
ROW – Angela Hua

Lakers PRIDE Award
WBB – Heidi Smith
MBB – Ismael Kaba
WCC – Katie Kozub
MCC – Bryan Stone
WHKY – Micaela Stutzki
MHKY – Brendan Mitchell
LAX – Doug Utting
WNOR – Shelby Dickey
MNOR – Drew Bursey
WSOC – Shannon Russell
MSOC – Alex Zero
WVB – Christina Caruso
MVB – Mike Ballagh and Jack Peckham
ROW – Lisa Davies

Rookies of the Year
Female – Stephanie Armstrong, Women’s Volleyball
Male – Jaaden Lewis, Men’s Basketball

Athlete of the Year
Female – Jackie Rochefort, Women’s Hockey
Male – Steve Wood, Men’s Volleyball