Janine Frazao Named Canada West Athlete of the Week

10/2/2012 10:05:00 AM

Vancouver, BC - For a third straight week a UBC soccer player has been named the Canada West Athlete of the week. Thanks to her five goal perfomance on the weekend, Thunderbirds forward Janine Frazao earned the honour. She follows in the footsteps of her teammate Rachel Ramsden, last week's female athlete of the week, and men's player Marco Visintin, who took home the honours as male athlete of the week two weeks agao.

UBC forward Janine Frazao, the reigning Canada West scoring champion, scored five goals on the weekend, helping her the Thunderbirds to two wins over the weekend.

On Friday night against Saskatchewan, she assisted on UBC's second goal of the game before scoring herself right before halftime to put her team up 3-0. Frazao then ended the night with another assist, on the T-Birds' fourth goal as the team earned a 4-0 shutout. The next night, Frazao was simply spectacular, finding the back of the net four times in just 23 minutes of play as unranked UBC defeated #9 Regina 6-0.

Frazao now ranks among the conference's best all-time women's soccer student-athletes, with 41 goals and 47 points in three-plus seasons.

The next two games for #10-ranked UBC (6-1) will be on the road. They will face #8 Alberta (4-0-2) in Edmonton on Saturday, Oct. 6 and unranked Mount Royal (0-4-2) in Calgary on Sunday, Oct. 7.

University of Saskatchewan forward Kyle Bortis picked up where he left off in the 2011-12 season recording one goal and seven assists for the Huskies in the opening weekend of Canada West men's hockey Friday and Saturday.

The fourth-year Agriculture student tallied the game winner with one second left on the clock in a 5-4 season opening win against the Mount Royal Cougars Friday. He also added assists on the Huskies' second and fourth goals in the game.

A night later in a 5-3 victory over the Cougars, the 2011-12 Canada West All-Star assisted on all five Huskies goals in the game.

Bortis and the Huskies take a week of rest before traveling to Winnipeg to meet the University of Manitoba Bisons October 12-13.

Print Friendly Version