Jacob Kilpatrick named to Top 8 Academic All Canadian
OTTAWA (CIS) – Canadian Interuniversity Sport proudly announced Tuesday the student-athletes honoured as Desjardins Top Eight Academic All-Canadians for the 2009-2010 season.
Every year, a growing number of CIS student-athletes are recognized as Academic All-Canadians, having maintained an average of 80 per cent or better over the academic year while competing for one - or more - of their university’s varsity teams.
In 2009-2010, a record 2,299 students achieved the prestigious status, eclipsing the previous mark of 2,256 set a year ago.
Five universities had over 100 CIS Academic All-Canadians last year including McGill (135), Laval (132), Alberta (128), Queen’s (118) and Western Ontario (113).
Rounding out the national top 10 were Dalhousie (97), Waterloo (92), Calgary (89), Guelph (85) and Saskatchewan (77).
Among these outstanding individuals, one female and one male student-athlete from each of the four CIS regional associations are selected annually as Desjardins Top Eight Academic All-Canadians.
The 2009-2010 recipients from Atlantic University Sport (AUS) are Alex Legge of Mahone Bay, N.S., a basketball player and medicine student at Dalhousie, as well as Jacob Kilpatrick of Saint John, a volleyball player and civil engineering student at UNB.
Representing the Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF) are Marie-Michelle Genois of Cap-Santé, Que., a basketball player and masters of cellular and molecular biology student at Laval, and Steven Bielby of Pointe-Claire, Que., a swimmer and electrical engineering student at McGill.
The winners from Ontario University Athletics (OUA) are Megan Brown of Guelph, Ont., a cross-country and track runner and physical education and health student at Toronto, as well as Dillon Heap of Waterloo, Ont., a football player and business administration student at Wilfrid Laurier.
From the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA), this year’s recipients are Jennifer Hinze of Vancouver, a volleyball player and cellular biology and genetics student at UBC, along with Thomas Hall of Winnipeg, at football player and kinesiology student at Manitoba.
“The high number of student-athletes who achieved 80 per cent reflects the commitment of coaches and athletics departments to ensure success in the classroom and playing field,” said CIS chief executive officer, Marg McGregor.
“This year’s Top Eight recipients have accomplished great things and symbolize the many outstanding student-athletes and universities across Canada. I look forward to hearing great things about them in the years to come as they graduate and become leaders in our communities.”
Name: Jacob Kilpatrick
Hometown: Saint John, N.B.
University: New Brunswick (UNB)
Program: Civil Engineering
Sport: Volleyball
In his first four seasons with UNB’s men’s volleyball team, Jacob Kilpatrick was twice named the AUS nominee for the prestigious CIS Dale Iwanoczko Award for excellence in athletics, academics and community involvement and, in 2009-10, was both an AUS all-star and the Varsity Reds team MVP. The 21-year-old is back with the V-Reds in 2010-11 for his fifth and final year of CIS eligibility.
A four-time Academic All-Canadian and two-time Dean’s List student in his first four years at UNB, Kilpatrick graduated last spring with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and resumed his studies this fall in a Diploma in Technology Management Entrepreneur. He has been the recipient of close to 30 scholarships and awards since arriving on the Fredericton campus in 2006, most recently the 2010-11 John Gilchrist Associated Alumni Engineering Scholarship, H.E. McKeen Scholarship, MRDC Athletic Award and Dirk Kiy Leadership Award.
The president of the UNB Athletes Council for the third straight year in 2010-11, he was the coordinator of the Varsity Reds fundraiser for the Fredericton Boys and Girls Club the past two years and has been actively involved since 2006 in the Heads Up with the Reds and Read with the Reds programs.
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