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University sports by Alex Field Players of the Week

-UPEI Panther Wins Award

On Thursday, February 13 the AUS announced the major award winners for this year's women's volleyball season. Among the winners announced was Jackie Ellsworth, who was named the 2002-03 Rookie of the Year. This is the first time that

Jeff Walker: Male Penny Lee Walsh: Female

this kind of award has been given to a player from UPEI, and the The male player of week twenty of the The female player of week twenty sports season is Jeff Walker. Jeff had a of the sports season is Penny Lee

fact that Jackie was able to earn this award during a season that saw the volleyball Panthers strug- gle for victories, makes her achievement all the more out- standing.

The determining factor that mostly likely resulted in Jackie winning this award was her ability to play the libero posi- tion, with extreme consistency. This was Jackie's first year play- ing the libero position, and her natural ability was obvious as she led the AUS and CIS in digs, col- lecting a total 321 digs during the season, which gave her an aver- age of 5.53 digs per game, which was nearly a full dig more than any other player in all of Canada. Jackie is a graduate from Westisle High School, and is currently in her second year of the Science program.

career game this past Friday as he lead the Walsh. Penny played a strong game men's basketball team to a huge victory against the Dalhousie Tigers in the over the CIS 6th-ranked St. FX X-Men. _ hockey quarterfinal this past Friday. After a pre-game ceremony that saw Jeff Penny set up the only goal for the honour as the only graduating member of Panthers, whose season came to an the men's basketball team, Walker shot out end as they lost the game 4-1.

the lights, as he hit his first ten shots of the Penny is a graduate from Morell game, and finished with a game-high 29 —_— Regional High School, and is cur- points. Jeffis a graduate from St. Stephen rently in her third year of the

High School, and is currently in his fourth Business program, with a major in year in the Arts program, where he majors Tourism & Hospitality.

in Sociology.

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