Dinos hand out athlete of year awards
The pool and the gridiron produced the most outstanding athletes at the University of Calgary, as evidenced by the 43rd annual Night of the Dino.
Quarterback Erik Glavic and swimmer Erica Morningstar were on Tuesday night named the school’s 2010 athletes of the year, winners of the Dr. Dennis Kadatz award.
Defensive lineman Linden Gaydosh and swimmer Allison Long shared the Bill Popplewell rookie of the year awards.
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By Rita Mingo, For The Calgary HeraldApril 7, 2010
Glavic, 24, claimed his second Hec Crighton Trophy this season after leading the conference winning Dinos to a Uteck Bowl championship and a berth in the Vanier Cup, where Calgary lost a 33-31 to Queen’s.
After a pair of knee surgeries sidelined him for nearly two years while at St. Mary’s, the six-foot-six Glavic led an offence that was tops in the nation and finished the Canada West season second in passing and tied for fourth in rushing.
The fourth-year Social Sciences student from Pickering, Ont., was the first quarterback to be named top athlete since Greg Vavra, his offensive co-ordinator, did it in 1984.
Last month, Glavic was one of 97 college players to participate in the 2010 CFL evaluation camp.
Basketball forward Ross Bekkering, sprinter Sam Effah, volleyball middle Oleg Podporin and swimmer Jason Block were also considered for the award.
Morningstar made a splash the minute she joined the Dinos swim team and her sophomore season was more of the same.
The first female swimmer to win this award since Suki Brownsdon in 1986, Morningstar was a gold medallist in the 50m and 100m freestyle, the 100m breaststroke and the 200 individual medley, as well as the three relays.
A 2008 Olympian, the 21-year-old Regina native has competed in 14 national championship races as a Dino and won, incredibly, 14 gold medals. She has been the anchor on a women’s team that has taken the CIS banner in both her seasons.
Katy Murdoch, sprinter Amonn Nelson, wrestler Gen Haley and field hockey player Carolina Romeo were on the shortlist for the award.
Long, who was chosen the CIS rookie of the year in women’s swimming — the fifth Dino to earn that honour — won gold in the 50m backstroke and was part of the record-shattering 4x100m medley relay team.
Gaydosh was top freshman in CIS football, earning the Peter Gorman Trophy. He represented Canada at the World Junior football championship last summer in Canton, Ohio, and greatly aided the Dinos’ turn as the best defence against the run in Canada West.
Among the awards at McMahon Stadium’s Red and White Club were the Calgary Booster Club scholar-athlete awards.
Soccer player Lindsay Burrowes, swimmer Katy Murdoch, basketball’s Robbie Sihota and running back Matt Walter each won a $1,000 scholarship.
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