Tiger Award Winners
By Mark Alberstat
Dalhousie University's Department of Athletics and Recreational Services announced its major varsity award winners for the 1985-86 season.
Fifth year volleyball middle blocker Karen Fraser was awarded the Class of '55 Trophy as the outstanding female athlete for 1985-86.
A co-captain and assistant coach of the women's volleyball Tigers, Fraser was selected a tournament All-Star this season at the University of Sherbrooke Green and Gold Tournament, the University of Moncton Open, the University of Manitoba Classic and the Dalhousie Volleyball Classic.
Fraser has been an All-Canadian four out of five seasons. This year she was named to the First All-Canadian Team.
An undergraduate in Commerce and a graduate student in Physical Education, Fraser helped lead the Tigers to their third straight AUAA title and a seventh-place national finish. She played a key role in the Tigers' gold medal performance at the 1982 CIAU's.
Fifth year men's basketball swingman James "Bo" Malott received the Climo Award as the outstanding male athlete of the 1985-86 season.
A captain of the Tigers for the past two seasons, Malott led the Tigers to a first-place finish in the AUAA this year. At the midwest Regional where the Tigers lost to the University of Saskatchewan Huskies by three points, he was named an All-Star.
Last fall, he led his team to accomplish what no other AUAA team has ever done; to split a four-game series against U.S. NCAA Division One and Two schools.
An AUAA All-Star and Team MVP for the past two seasons, Malott is a six-foot-four native of Toronto. He will graduate this spring with a degree in Sociology.
Tenth year women's volleyball coach Lois MacGregor was named Dalhousie's Coach of the Year for her success in leading the Tigers to their third consecutive AUAA title. Under her leadership, the Tigers won a gold and a silver medal at the nationals.
The Dalhousie Award for outstanding contribution to Nova Scotia sport was presented to Cape Breton's Phillip "Skit" Ferguson, a golfer, curler, track and field athlete, rugby and hockey player, coach and baseball player who turned down three professional offers including one from the Boston Red Sox.
Team Most Valuable Performers were also announced, and are as follows:
Greg Brown, a swingman with the men's basketball Tigers, collected the second highest points per game average with 12.6, and was named to the AUAA all-star team.
Brown, a six-foot-four native of Brooklyn, New York, is in his first year playing with the Tigers.
Lisa Briggs, team captain for the women's basketball Tigers, was named an AUAA All-Star and CIAU Athlete of the Week during the course of this season. The five-seven native of Woodstock, New Brunswick, who is in her fourth year with the Tigers, played the guard position.
Norman Tinkham, a native of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, collected the MVP award for men's cross country for the second time. Tinkham, in his fifth year with the Tigers, posted the second best 5000m track time in the CIAU, was named a CIAU Athlete of the Week, and managed to defeat arch-rival Paul McCloy win the course of the past season. Tinkham finished 11th in the CIAU cross-country champions, and finished fifth in the Canadian Track and Field Association championships.
Annick DeGooyer, also a native of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, also picked up her second MVP award. DeGooyer finished second at the AUAA's, and was named AUAA Athlete of the Meet.
Forward Gail Broderick got the nod as MVP for the women's field hockey Tigers. The Dartmouth, Nova Scotia native, in her fourth year with the Tigers, helped the team to a second-place finish at the AUAA's.
Neal Megannety, a right winger with the men's ice hockey Tigers, picked up Dal, AUAA, CIAU and Hockey News Athlete of the Week awards. The team captain, in his fourth year with the Tigers, is a native of Dorval, Quebec. He is currently eighth on Dal's all-time scoring list, with 45 goals and 53 assists in 86 games.
Leslie Cherry, a native of Somerset, Bermuda, earned the MVP award for women's soccer. Cherry, also a member of the Tigers' women's swim team, scored two of the Tigers' three goals at the AUAA championship, and was named an AUAA All-Star for the second consecutive year.
Darryl Dutton, a Halifax native, was undefeated in 29 starts in the men's swimming season. Dutton, in his first year with the Tigers, set a new AUAA mark in the 400 IM and was a double finalist at the CIAU championships.
Marie Moore, a native of Danmouth, Nova Scotia, was undefeated in 30 individual swims as a member of the Tigers' women's swim team. Moore, also in her first year with the Tigers, won three AUAA titles and anchored winning relay teams. She also collected three silver medals at the CIAU’s, and was named AUAA Female Swimmer of the Year.
Brian Rourke, a native of Dartmouth, was the men’s volleyball team’s offensive leader. Rourke, a setter, collected AUAA All-Star and league MVP awards, and made the second team All-Canadian squad.
Karen Fraser, the Class of ’55 trophy winner, was also named the women’s volleyball team MVP.
First published in the Dalhousie Gazette vol. 118, issue 25 on March 27, 1986