CUFLA Announces 2019/20 Academic All-Canadians

CUFLA is pleased to be able to share some good news, announcing its 2019/20 Academic All-Canadians. 

The awards are intended to honour the top academic performers from each of the schools in the league. Each team can nominate its two student-athletes who achieved the highest academic standing.

Four student-athletes were repeat honourees after also having named Academic All-Canadians last year, the first time that CUFLA presented the awards. (2018/19 AAC story)

Hayden Nix was again one of the AACs from the Western Mustangs, who won their fourth straight Baggataway Cup last fall. Nix excels on the field and is even better in the classroom, where he achieved outstanding grades in second year medical school. 

He won't be an AAC next year, however; he's planning to take a year off from med school to pursue a Masters in Bioethics at Oxford University. 

The other repeat Academic All-Canadians are Trent's pair of Cole McWilliams and Aidan Jeffrey along with Brock LSM Macgregor Allen.

The full list of 2019/20 Academic All-Canadians is below with the year in school the player just completed, position, home town and area of study. 

Bishop's

Karl Szabo
2^nd year defender
Quebec City, Quebec
Sciences

Noah Lane
3^rd year LSM
Mississauga, Ontario
Sciences

Brock

Carleton

Josh Franklin
5^th year defensive midfielder
Ottawa, Ontario
Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering

Mitch Tyler
1^st year defender
Ottawa, Ontario
Honours Computer Science

Laurentian

Michael Holmes
1^st year midfielder
Acton, Ontario
Sports Administration

Lou Harris
3^rd year goalie
Peterborough, Ontario
Sport Psychology

Laurier

Andrew Borgatti
3^rd year midfielder
Brampton, Ontario
Business Administration

Sam Demarchi
Graduating midfielder
Toronto, ON
Business

McGill

Seth Obadia
3^rd year attack
Port Washington, New York
Economics

Christopher Parkinson
1^st year defensive midfielder
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Mathematics

McMaster

Benoit LeMaitre
5^th year defensive midfielder
Ancaster Ontario
Mechanical Engineering and Management

Nickolas Serniuck
5^th year attack
Oakville Ontario
Chemical Biology Co-op Program
(Serniuck will be starting a Masters program in Chemical Biology in the fall. He published his first paper this year: “ACS Chemical Biology”)

Nipissing

Tommy Roos
4^th year defensive midfielder
Stittsville, Ontario
Criminal Justice

Stephan Hass
3^rd year LSM
BPHE/Education
Braeside, Ontario

Ottawa

Wade Miner
3^rd year midfielder
Ottawa, Ontario
Human Kinetics

Mathieu Laberge
1^st year midfielder
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
Mechanical Engineering

Trent

Cole McWilliams
2^nd year graduate school attack
Peterborough, Ontario

Aidan Jeffrey
3^rd year defender
Scarborough, Ontario

Western

Cole Davis
5^th year midfielder
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Honours Specialization in Kinesiology
(Davis will be starting an M.Sc in International Business at Western's Ivey Business School in January 2021)

Hayden Nix 
2^nd year medical school, defender 
Mississauga, Ontario 
(Nix will be taking next year off Medical School to do a Masters in Bioethics at Oxford University)

 

Note: Guelph, Queen's and Toronto opted not to nominate players for Academic All-Canadian honours.