MONTREAL -- Monty Weatherall earned rookie-of-the-year honours and was one of 11 McGill University players to merit all-star status in voting conducted by the coaches in the RSEQ men's rugby conference.

The six-foot, 183-pound fly-half hails from Amersham, a small town located about 48 kilometres northwest of central London. A 20-year-old freshman majoring in International Development Studies (IDS), Weatherall led McGill in scoring and ranked fourth among league leaders with 47 points in six games. He made 10 conversions and led the conference in penalty kicks with nine. Weatherall is the seventh McGill player in nine years to merit the rookie award, which has been presented since 2001.

Three McGill seniors joined him on the first all-star squad, namely Antoine Guay, a mechanical engineering veteran from Verdun, Que., along with a pair of Ottawa natives, Dylan Havelock, a software engineering student and Michael Nwabufo, an IDS major.

League champion Concordia led all schools with six honourees on the 15-man first team, followed by McGill (4) and ETS (2), along with one player apiece from Montreal, Bishop's and Ottawa.

The second dream team featured a school record seven McGillians among the 15 players named. They included Jeremy Ockomichalak of Los Angeles, Josh Worden of Arlington, Va., Alex Pantis and Karl Hunger, both from Beaconsfield, Que., Thomas Richards from the U.K., Pierre Grison from France and Owen Cumming of Toronto.

The remainder of the second squad was composed of three players apiece from Concordia and Ottawa, while Sherbrooke and Montreal contributed one player each.

2019 RSEQ MEN'S RUGBY AWARDS & ALL-STARS
 

PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Rémi Archambault	Sherbrooke
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
Monty Weatherall	McGill
COACH OF THEYEAR:
Stephanie Crawley	Ottawa
LEADERSHIP AWARD:
Jérémie Lardi	Sherbrooke
FIRST TEAM ALL-STARS
Stephen Martinez	Concordia
Nicolas Mercier	ETS
Brice Brousseau-Rigaudie	ETS
Thomas Goetz	Concordia
James Armstrong	Ottawa
Dylan Havelock	McGill
Louis-Philippe Savoie	Montréal
Michael Nwabufo	McGill
Antoine Guay	McGill
Zach Pelletier	Concordia
Tyler Murphy	Bishop's
Michael Laplaine-Pereira	Concordia
Jérôme Lévesque	Concordia
Monty Weatherall	McGill
Stanislas Blazkowski	Concordia
SECOND TEAM ALL-STARS
Jeremy Ockomichalak	McGill
Alexander Pantis	McGill
Aidan McMullan	Concordia
James Flemming	Ottawa
Nathaniel Maginnis	Ottawa
Josh Worden	McGill
Karl Hunger	McGill
Dylan MacDonald	Concordia
Eliott Goussanou	Concordia
Thomas Richards	McGill
Rémi Archambault	Sherbrooke
Pierre Grison	McGill
Owen Cumming	McGill
François Dufeigneux	Montréal
William Redgate	Ottawa