The University of British Columbia Okanagan Heat men’s soccer player Dylan Abbott was awarded the university’s Graduating Player of the Year award last week in Kelowna.
Abbott was featured in almost every minute of the Heat’s 54 league or post-season matches in his four seasons at UBCO.
In each year he was in consideration for team MVP and, in his second year, Abbott assumed a leadership role that he carried for the rest of his UBC Okanagan career.
Serving largely as a defender for the Heat, Abbott scored seven career goals.
His leadership and presence was a key factor in the team’s historically successful first season in the Canada West conference of the CIS.
For the second year in a row, last week Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women’s basketball player Jorri Duxbury was named the Dr. Roger H. Barnsley Scholar Athlete of the Year in Kamloops.
The award goes to athletes who best combine academics and athletic performance. Duxbury had a fall grade-point average of 3.91 and has been an Academic All-Canadian each of her previous four years at TRU.
She is the only female in the TRU Physics Degree program and will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree this spring.
Also recognized for academic and athletic excellence were Logan Abbott and Cody Bell from UBCO. Both student athletes received Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association scholar awards.
