MONTREAL -- Lacrosse player
Jishan Sharples of Vancouver, B.C., and the rowing crew of Toronto native
Kalyna Franko and
Luce Bourbeau from the Madeleine Islands, are the McGill University athletes of the week, sponsored by Ye Olde Orchard Pub, for the period ending Nov. 4, 2012.
Sharples, a 21-year-old finance senior, scored four goals and assisted on another in two come-from-behind victories to give McGill its first-ever Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association championship in Peterborough, Ont., last week. The 6-foot-1, 195-pound midfielder tallied twice, including the game-winner with 12 seconds left in double overtime in a 7-6 win over the Western Mustangs in the gold medal contest, Sunday. He also named player of the game. In Saturday's semifinal, a 9-8 conquest over Guelph, he scored twice, netting the tying marker with one minute remaining as McGill erased a two-goal deficit in the final 80 seconds. Sharples, a co-captain on the Redmen, joined the team in 2009 out of Lord Byng Secondary in Vancouver.
Franko, a psychology senior in the faculty of arts & science, teamed up with
Bourbeau, a political science sophomore, to win gold in women's pairs at the Canadian University Rowing Association championships at Burnaby Lake, B.C. The crossed the finish line of the 2,000m course in seven minutes, 48.15 seconds, easily beating second-place Western, by 3.19 seconds. It was the first podium finish for any McGill women's boat in six regattas this season and marked the first time since the national championship began in 1997 that a McGill women's crew had claimed gold. Both Franko and Bourbeau, who started out their McGill careers in a novice crew, are 21 years old and stand 5-foot-11. Franko joined McGill in 2009 out of the University of Toronto School, while Bourbeau enrolled the next year after graduating from Collège de la Gaspésie et des Îles.
Each athlete will receive a gift certificate from Ye Olde Orchard Pub.
SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
514-398-7012 (Tel.)
514-398-1956 (Fax)
m.athletics.mcgill.ca (mobile website)
www.mcgill.ca/athletics
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
