September 27, 2017

York's Jaslan Stirling Named U SPORTS Female Athlete of the Week

Sebastian Colyn of the Trinity Western Spartans and Jaslan Stirling from the York Lions are the U SPORTS Male and Female Athletes of the Week for the period ending September 24, 2017.

Stirling, who becomes the first field hockey player to win the U SPORTS Female Athlete of the Week in four years (the last being the 2013 Championship MVP, UBC's Abigale Raye in 2013), scored six goals in three games, including two game-winners and a hat trick, to lead the Lions to a perfect 3-0 record this past weekend.

In the first game on Saturday, the rookie forward scored the opening goal in the seventh minute, what stood as the game winner, as the Lions defeated the three-time reigning OUA champion Toronto Varsity Blues for the first time since 1999. Against McGill on Sunday she again scored early, in the fourth minute, and added another two before the end of the first half as part of a 6-1 victory. Later that same day, she found the back of the net in the fifth minute to equal the game against the Gryphons and added an insurance goal in the 67th minute in a contest the Lions won 3-1.

Stirling leads all players with nine goals in five games, six more than any other player in the country, and the Lions are undefeated at 5-0 for the best record in U SPORTS.

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