Assiniboine crowns Green, Frederick, Bosc top athletes

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With a rookie soccer striker who nearly led her league in scoring and a hockey player who averaged more than a point per game at a national championship, the Assiniboine Community College Cougars simply couldn’t choose one female athlete of the year.

Cougars soccer star Jerra Green and hockey forward Karli Frederick were named the school’s co-female athletes of the year — along with male athlete of the year Theo Bosc — at the ACC awards banquet on Wednesday evening.

“This award is absolutely incredible. All the teams I played for, both soccer and futsal, it’s been incredible. To win this award, it’s absolutely amazing,” Green said. “It’s definitely not all me, I definitely have the team to thank for that as well. I’m playing the sport I love and want to give it may all, and it worked out really well, but I had a good team backing me up and we rocked it together.”

In the outdoor season, Green was second in the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference in scoring with 11 goals, and tied teammate Ashley Robinson for the team lead in futsal with eight markers.

Green led the Cougars to their most promising start in program history in outdoor: A 2-1-3 mark that nearly proved enough to send ACC through to its first-ever league semifinal. The Cougars had a shot at the playoffs right up to the final game of the regular season, coming up just two points short.

Green graduates from her one-year police studies program, and won’t be back with the team next year.

“I wish I could do it again, but it’s been great. I definitely recommend ACC in every way,” she said.

Frederick completed her second and final year with the Cougars women’s hockey team, finishing third on the team in scoring with eight goals and 15 assists.

Frederick helped her Cougars earn the No. 2 rank in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Women’s Division 2 West Region and a trip to nationals in Texas.

The rest is history.

Frederick helped with two goals and four assists as the Cougars strung together five wins, none bigger than a 1-0 victory over the Minot State University Beavers to claim Assiniboine’s first-ever national championship.

“It’s pretty cool,” Frederick said. “I probably couldn’t have done it without my teammates. We had an amazing year, and I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

Frederick is graduating from the agribusiness diploma program, and couldn’t have chosen a better way to close the book on her post-secondary hockey career.

“ACC taught me a lot. Coming here was probably one of the best decisions I’ve made, and winning nationals topped it all off,” she said.

Bosc went through growing pains with a men’s soccer team that was unable to field a complete team by the end of the MCAC outdoor campaign.

He never gave up, and rose to the tough mental challenge of being a futsal goalkeeper come January.

Bosc backstopped the Cougars to an 8-5 victory over the Red River College Rebels, who won the league crown two seasons earlier. He earned a 9-9 draw against the defending champion Université de Saint-Boniface Les Rouges in the final weekend of the regular season.

“I wasn’t expecting it, at all,” Bosc said of the athlete of the year award. “I’ve always played my heart out and played my best. I’m always passionate for soccer, and futsal, it’s a little different. Playing goalie, I haven’t really played goalie much in my life.

“At first it was a little scary because that ball comes pretty quick and it’s a learning experience for sure. I had some good teammates that weren’t like ‘Oh, you let a goal in.’ We were supporting each other.”

ACC finished six points out of the playoff picture, which Bosc felt wasn’t bad considering it still had a short bench, even in the 5-on-5 indoor game.

“We were really short this year. With only a few subs each game, we played our hearts out and played the best we could,” he said.

Bosc is graduating from the heavy duty equipment technician program after maintaining a 4.33 grade-point average during his time at ACC.

COUGARS DAY: Earlier in the day, Brandon Mayor Rick Chrest proclaimed April 17 as “Assiniboine Cougars Hockey Day.”

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ACC ATHLETICS AWARD WINNERS

MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR — Theo Bosc

FEMALE ATHLETES OF THE YEAR — Jerra Green and Karli Frederick

TEAM AWARDS:

•Women’s Soccer

Most Valuable Player — Jerra Green

Most Improved Player — Marley Quesnel

Coach’s Award — Ashley Robinson

• Men’s Soccer

Most Valuable Player — Alfred Tobacco

Most Improved Player — Dylan Walters

Coach’s Award — Jovaughn Thomas

• Women’s Futsal

Most Valuable Player — Kendra Mansoff

Most Improved Player — Alyson Peasgood

Coach’s Award — Kendall Omeljanow

• Men’s Futsal

Most Valuable Player — Enrique Hernandez

Most Improved Player — Diego Nomesque

Coach’s Award — Edwin Urquilla

• Women’s Volleyball

Most Valuable Player — Kalin Winter

Most Improved Player — Madelyn Neufeld

Coach’s Award — Erica Scott

• Men’s Volleyball

Most Valuable Player — Paycen Warkentin

Most Improved Player — Zach McCutcheon

Coach’s Award — Fernando Chorro

• Women’s Hockey

Most Valuable Forward — Karli Frederick

Most Valuable Defenceman — Haylee Anderson

Most Improved Player — Jasmin Denby

Coach’s Award — Mariah McCue