McGill soccer stars Chloe Renaud and Mara Bouchard earn All-Canadian honours

HALIFAX – Chloe Renaud and Mara Bouchard, two members of the McGill University Martlets, were among the honourees announced at the All-Canadian Banquet to kick off the U SPORTS women's soccer Final Eight national championship tournament on Wednesday.

Among the major award winners were Cape Breton forward Alliya Rowe (player of the year), Montreal Carabins defender Blessing Mayi-Kith (rookie of the year), Saskatchewan's Anna Oliver (Student-athlete Community Service Award) and UBC bench boss Jesse Symons (coach of the year).

Renaud merited first team honours, while Bouchard earned a berth on the second team, upping the McGill women's soccer program to 58 All-Canadians since the sport was sanctioned with a national championship in 1987.

Renaud was voted women's soccer player of the year in the RSEQ conference. A 5-foot-5 midfielder from St. Hubert, Que., she is a three-time league all-star who tallied 12 goals and added four assists to capture the RSEQ conference scoring crown and tied for fifth in the nation among goal leaders. The 21-year-old psychology junior became the first member of the Martlets to score a dozen goals in 23 years. She scored against all seven of the other teams in the Quebec league and found the net in 10 of the team's 14 games. Credited with three winning goals, she was named three times as the team's player of the game, twice as the McGill athlete of the week and merited the RSEQ weekly honour once.

"The most impressive thing about Chloe's season was that she was able to score consistently, in almost every game and against each opponent in our league," says McGill head coach Jose-Luis Valdes. "We always count on her score at least once per game, which is very difficult to do in soccer. She always wants the ball, is looking to get the ball. She is often double or triple-teamed but still finds a way to come out with the ball at her feet and be in position to pass or get a good shot on net."

Bouchard, a 23-year-old psychology senior from Granby, Que., is a four-time conference all-star who has now earned All-Canadian honours in each of her last three seasons. The 5-foot-4 midfielder is a team captain who started in all 14 regular season games, had two assists and only one yellow card.

"Mara leads by example, has a very competitive drive and plays at a high consistent level every game," says Valdes. "She steals the ball without fouling and according to our advanced statistics, she had a 95 per cent tackle success rate this season (122 of 128) and only had 2.5 fouls per game called against her."

The 2024 U SPORTS championship gets underway Thursday at Wickwire Field on the campus of Dalhousie University and culminates Sunday with the national championship game at 3 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. local time). All 11 games from the eight-team tournament will be webcast live on CBC digital platforms in English and Radio-Canada's digital platforms and ICTou.tv in French.

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2024 U SPORTS WOMEN'S SOCCER AWARDS & ALL-CANADIANS

McGill Martlets Soccer All-Canadians

Season	Name	Sport	Team
1987-88	Naomi Hasegawa	Soccer (W)	1st
1987-88	Michelle Seveno	Soccer (W)	2nd
1988-89	Jocelyn Dutil	Soccer (W)	2nd
1989-90	Jocelyn Dutil	Soccer (W)	1st
1989-90	Nathalie Ioanidis	Soccer (W)	1st
1989-90	Gayle Noble	Soccer (W)	2nd
1990-91	Jocelyn Dutil	Soccer (W)	1st
1990-91	Nathalie Ioanidis	Soccer (W)	1st
1991-92	Nathalie Ioanidis	Soccer (W)	1st
1991-92	Luce Mongrain	Soccer (W)	2nd
1992-93	Gayle Noble	Soccer (W)	1st
1992-93	Julia Maughan	Soccer (W)	2nd
1993-94	Gayle Noble	Soccer (W)	1st
1993-94	Julia Maughan	Soccer (W)	2nd
1994-95	Julia Maughan	Soccer (W)	1st
1994-95	Heidi Bloomfield	Soccer (W)	2nd
1994-95	Odile Desbois	Soccer (W)	2nd
1995-96	Julia Maughan	Soccer (W)	1st
1995-96	Odile Desbois	Soccer (W)	1st
1996-97	Amy Walsh	Soccer (W)	2nd
1996-97	Luciana Cifarelli	Soccer (W)	2nd
1997-98	Odile Desbois	Soccer (W)	1st
1998-99	Kiran Nayar	Soccer (W)	2nd
1999-00	Eva Melamed	Soccer (W)	1st
1999-00	Julia Scrase	Soccer (W)	1st
1999-00	Alanna Maloney	Soccer (W)	2nd
2000-01	Amber Allen	Soccer (W)	1st
2000-01	Ashlee Gentry	Soccer (W)	2nd
2000-01	Sophie Labrom	Soccer (W)	2nd
2001-02	Eva Melamed	Soccer (W)	1st
2001-02	Amber Allen	Soccer (W)	2nd
2001-02	Ashlee Gentry	Soccer (W)	2nd
2002-03	Alanna Maloney	Soccer (W)	1st
2002-03	Nicole Shepherd	Soccer (W)	2nd
2003-04	Nicole Shepherd	Soccer (W)	1st
2003-04	Shari Fraser	Soccer (W)	1st
2004-05	Danielle Day	Soccer (W)	1st
2004-05	Alanna Maloney	Soccer (W)	2nd
2004-05	Eloise Vandal	Soccer (W)	2nd
2004-05	Morag Mitchell-Carvalho	Soccer (W)	2nd
2005-06	Shari Fraser	Soccer (W)	1st
2005-06	Eloise Vandal	Soccer (W)	2nd
2006-07	Eloise Vandal	Soccer (W)	1st
2006-07	Shari Fraser	Soccer (W)	1st
2007-08	Karlie Kennedy-Cross	Soccer (W)	2nd
2009-10	Katherine Green	Soccer (W)	1st
2010-11	Katherine Green	Soccer (W)	1st
2010-11	Alexandra Morin-Boucher	Soccer (W)	2nd
2010-11	Victoria Muccilli	Soccer (W)	2nd
2011-12	Alexandra Hoyte	Soccer (W)	2nd
2012-13	Bahar Sansar	Soccer (W)	1st
2012-13	Hannah Rivkin	Soccer (W)	2nd
2013-14	Kelsey Wilson	Soccer (W)	1st
2022-23	Mara Bouchard	Soccer (W)	2nd
2023-24	Mara Bouchard	Soccer (W)	1st
2023-24	Stephanie Hill	Soccer (W)	1st
2024-25	Mara Bouchard	Soccer (W)	2nd
2024-25	Chloe Renaud	Soccer (W)	1st