Leanne Kadatz capped off an amazing season this past week at the CCAA Soccer Championships in Quebec City by leading her team to it's second consecutive National silver medal. She was selected as the ACAC Women’s Soccer Player of the Year and was honoured as a CCAA All-Canadian at the Championships. She led the Nationals in scoring with four goals in three games, scoring two goals in the Ook’s opening 3-2 victory over Ahuntsic and then netted another two goals in the team’s 4-0 victory over Humber. “Leanne was fantastic this week scoring some incredible goals,” said head coach Sergio Teixeira. “She had an amazing season for our team.”

Leanne is a 2nd year player in the Animal Health technology program at NAIT and is from Edmonton, Alberta.

Congratulations Leanne for being named Athlete of the Week! 

Jodi and Vicky had a tremendous battle in the CCAA Women's Cross-Country Running race.  Vicky had a 3 second lead with one lap (2 km) left in the race but Jodi caught and passed her and opened up a 3 second lead in the last lap.  Jodi Sanguin won the ACAC Championships and three previous ACAC Grand Prix races comfortably with leads of about a minute in each.  She had to work hard to win this CCAA Championship. The Kamloops course was very flat and that does not favor Jodi.  She is relatively stronger on tough, hilly courses and in spite of this, she won.  

This victory caps off an undefeated season for Jodi and a five year College XC Running career in which she made the CCAA All Tournament team (top seven) every year: 4th in 2007, 7th in 2008, 2nd in 2009, 2nd ,in 2010, and finally first this year! 

Congratulations Jodi on an golden performance!

At the CCAA National Soccer Championships in Quebec City, an emerging star was born for the NAIT Ooks men’s soccer team. Montgomery Haines came off-the bench to score four goals in the team’s final two games leading the team to the 2011 CCAA National Championship and Gold medal. Haines scored the only goals in the team’s 2-0 victory over Humber which sent the Ooks to the gold medal game. As if that wasn’t enough, Montgomery then scored both goals in the team’s 2-1 victory over Holland in the championship game. Haines was named to the CCAA Nationals All-Star team and was selected tournament MVP. “Monty has had a difficult year with injuries but certainly was recruited to score goals”, said head coach Jeff Paulus.  “It was great to see him healthy, enjoying the game and of course scoring our last four goals of the tournament to give us the gold medal.”  

Monty is a 1st year Academic Upgrading student from Beaumont, AB.

Congratulations Montgomery for you oustanding performance at CCAA National Soccer Championship!

This past weekend Andrew Pohl competed at CCAA National Championships winning the men’s title in 25:31 seconds over the 8km race course. He said that this was the biggest achievement of his running career. “It feels amazing, I’ve been beaten all year and to pull it out at Nationals feels great”, said Pohl. Andy is a second year student at the University of Alberta, Augustana studying in Physical Education. Andrew is originally fromm Dunedin, New Zealand but has been commuting back and forth from New Zealand to Canada for the last four years to get on snow training year round for his other passion; cross country skiing. 

Congratulations Andrew on an gold medal performance!