90 Reds Named Academic All-Canadians

UNB President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Paul Mazerolle, front row left, stands with some of the 90 Reds who achieved Academic All-Canadian status in 2018-19. The group was celebrated Tuesday morning. (Photo: Jeff Crawford/UNB Media Services)
UNB President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Paul Mazerolle, front row left, stands with some of the 90 Reds who achieved Academic All-Canadian status in 2018-19. The group was celebrated Tuesday morning. (Photo: Jeff Crawford/UNB Media Services)
Posted: Oct 22, 2019

(FREDERICTON, NB) The UNB Reds are proud to announce that 90 student-athletes have been named as U SPORTS Academic All-Canadians for 2018-19.

90, which includes members of the women’s hockey team for the first time in a decade, represents 34% of the Reds 265 student-athletes who consumed U SPORTS eligibility last season.

Academic All-Canadian status celebrates earning at least an 80% average while participating as a varsity level athlete.

“We are extremely proud of this group of student-athletes,” said John Richard, UNB’s Director of Athletics. “They have worked extremely hard as athletes, but more importantly, they’ve worked extremely hard as students. They’re as diligent and as dedicated in the classroom as they are on their chosen fields of play. Balancing academics and athletics at the varsity level is not easy, but this group has not only found that balance, they’ve mastered it.”

Siobhan Fitzpatrick, of the women’s volleyball team, and Evan Barker, of the men’s soccer team, were recognized as the top female and male Academic All-Canadians.

Fitzpatrick, a first-year Red but a fifth-year student-athlete, recorded a 4.1 GPA as a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology. Barker, a third-year Red in 2018-19, recorded a 4.2 GPA in UNB’s Faculty of Management.

The 90 Reds student-athletes who achieved Academic All-Canadian status in 2018-19 are:

Women’s Basketball

Gillian Cumby, Mikaela Dodig, Ja’Yon Leak

Men’s Basketball

Jesse Kendall, Will Legere, Sterling Simpson

Women’s Cross Country

Jana Giles, Emma Towers, Abigail Evans, Hannah Haynes-MacDonald, Hannah Cormier, Jillian Lamb, Emmanuelle Martin

Men’s Cross Country

Michael Colford, Isaac Cull, Dawson Nancekievill, Bradley McMullin, Joshua Cummings, Ethan Wilkie

Women’s Curling

Nicole Tracy

Men’s Curling

Jack Smeltzer

Women’s Hockey

Jennifer Bell, Paige Grenier, Jenna MacLean, Hannah Matchett, Tamina Kehler, Katherine Chadwick

Men’s Hockey

Randy Gazzola, Olivier LeBlanc, Rylan Parenteau, Tristan Pomerleau, Joe Gatenby, Samuel Dove-McFalls, Mark Rassell, James McEwan, Matthew Boucher

Women’s Soccer

Emily Burton, Sylvie Fecteau, Erin Foley, Emma King-Jesso, Lindsey Lohnes, Charlotte Sampson, Selina Fabbri, Danika Lefebvre, Clarisse Ramirez, Eve MacDonald, Madison Goertz, Erin Smal

Men’s Soccer

Evan Barker, Matthew Boem, Kristian D’Amore, Nick Ellingwood, Mathew Quigley, Grant Takacs, Tristan Nkoghe, Tom Pheulpin, Alex Dodgshon

Women’s Swimming

Emma Berton, Valentina Lougheed, Jennifer Moore, Jenna O’Brien, Sarah Kelly, Hannah Casey, Alexie Lebouthillier-Sanford

Men’s Swimming

Eric Meng, Michael Walz, Charles Waugh

Women’s Track and Field

Brianna Forbes, Sydney MacDonald, Anne Deweyert, Erin McCavour

Men’s Track and Field

Tyler Adams, Thayne Hebb, Milton King, Vinh Le, Jarod Manuel, Timothy Green, Simon Butler, Joshua Goldson, Chance Blackstone

Women’s Volleyball

Kelsey Bond, Kristen Burns, Julia Diemert, Maggie McLenahan, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Olivia Valenti, Adora Rooyakkers

Men’s Volleyball

Johnathan Curry, Connor Herget, Erik Kodric