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 Vikes
clinch national field hockey title—again!
The UVic Vikes women’s field hockey team are the
2002 Canadian Interuniversity Sport champions.
The Vikes beat their archrivals, the UBC Thunderbirds,
2-0 in frosty conditions at Huskies Stadium at St. Mary’s University
in Halifax on Nov. 3. The victory was the 10th national championship
for Vikes coach Lynne Beecroft—the most national titles in
the sport ever collected by a Canadian university.
The Vikes overcame UBC with a complete team effort.
“Every day it was a different player stepping up for us,”
says Beecroft.
Vikes outstanding centre-defender, Lauren MacLean,
won the Liz Hoffman Award as CIS player-of-the-year—an honour
she won previously in Canada West. In three appearances at the national
competition, MacLean, a fourth-year social sciences student, has
won silver (1999), gold (2000) and bronze (2001) medals.
MacLean also shared the CIS Gail Wilson award, for
outstanding contributions off the field, with Robin Leslie of the
University of Waterloo. MacLean participates in the WITS anti-violence
program in Victoria schools and is part of the Big Brothers/Big
Sisters organization.
MacLean was named to the tournament all-star team along
with Vikes Tara Geach and Sara Simpson. MacLean and Simpson also
landed berths on the CIS field hockey all-Canadians team.
(Photo: Kate Lindsay, holding trophy, and Jacquie
Hornby. Pete Lewis photo)
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