Jodi Schaufele CIS AOW

CIS - VIA Rail athletes of the week
Trinity Western’s Schaufele, honoured

Jan. 11, 2006

OTTAWA (CIS) – Volleyball player Jodi Schaufele from the Trinity Western University Spartans and hockey player Ryan Lauzon from the Saint Mary’s University Huskies are the Canadian Interuniversity Sport - VIA Rail female and male athletes of the week for the period ending Jan. 8, 2006. Schaufele represents the first TWU Spartan to receive a CIS athlete of the week honour.

Schaufele, a fourth-year human kinetics student from Vancouver excelled both on offence and defence this weekend as she amassed 16 kills and 15 digs to lead the Spartans to a pair of upset wins over the Alberta Pandas, ranked second in the country entering the contests. With the victories, TWU moved into a tie for first place in the overall Canada West standings, and improved to seventh in the CIS Top 10.

Jodi Schaufele
Trinity Western University Spartans
Volleyball
4th year, human kinetics
Vancouver, B.C.

Left-side hitter Jodi Schaufele was all over the volleyball court this weekend as she excelled both on offence and defence to lead the Spartans to a pair of upset wins over perennial powerhouse Alberta (9-3), ranked second in the country entering the contests. TWU edged the Pandas 3-2 on Friday, and added a 3-0 sweep of the multiple CIS champions on Saturday.

Schaufele, a fourth-year attacker from Vancouver, finished the weekend with 16 kills and 15 digs. She had nine kills, seven digs, three aces and four blocks in Friday’s five-set thriller, including a key block late in the final set won 15-11 by the Spartans, and followed up with a seven-kill, eight-dig, three-block effort on Saturday.

With the victories, the Spartans (10-2) moved into a tie for first place in the overall Canada West standings with the Calgary Dinos, and hold a two-point lead over UBC (9-1) in the Pacific division. Trinity Western also moved up to seventh place in the new Top 10.

Female nominees:

AUS: Ryan McKay, basketball, Dalhousie
QSSF: Mélody Benhamou, volleyball, Montreal
OUA: Cassandra Carpenter, basketball, Laurentian