WHKY: Pair of T-Birds soar onto first-team all-star roster
CALGARY - UBC duo Chanreet Bassi and Hannah Koroll refuse to stop making headlines. The two have been named to the Canada West all-star team after leading their Thunderbirds to a conference-record 24 wins this season.
The league's second-leading point-getter, Bassi has been instrumental in the T-Birds' terrifying offence that has scored 21 more goals than any other team in 2022-23. Koroll, meanwhile, led CW's top defensive core while also posting 20 points in 28 games.
Rounding out the first-team all-stars are Emma Bergesen of Mount Royal, Alli Borrow of Calgary and Halle Oswald of Alberta. Bergesen was the conference's highest scoring defender this year, while Borrow topped the league in goals. Oswald had a record-setting year of her own, taking over first place in career goals-against-average with an astounding 1.107 in her 61 games.
Her provincial rival in Gabrielle Durante (Calgary) earns a second-team all-star nod. Durante posted an incredible seven shutouts this season. UBC's Rylind MacKinnon and Alberta's Taylor Anker are the second-team defence selections, a shutdown duo who have frustrated elite offences this season. Courtney Kollman (Mount Royal), Amy Potomak (Trinity Western) and Madison Willan (Alberta) complete the line-up. Kollman sits tied for third in points with 26, while Willan's balanced scoring and playmaking abilities helped her Pandas to a first-round playoff bye. Potomak posted 24 points in 27 games this season to lead Trinity Western to its first-ever CW playoff berth. She makes history as the program's first-ever Canada West women's hockey all-star.
Manitoba's sole selection comes on the all-rookie team. Emily Shippam battled hard in the net for a squad that missed the playoffs this year, but shows hope for her Bisons moving into 2022-23. Calgary duo Keagan Goulet and Sydney Mercier are also making waves in their first CW season. Mercier led all rookies in scoring while Goulet has showed herself as an invaluable building block for the Dinos' defence. Alberta's Sara Kazeil is the other all-rookie defender, playing a big role in a squad that was second-best at keeping pucks out of nets this season.
UBC's Cassidy Rhodes and Saskatchewan's Taylor Wilkinson have also established themselves as central pieces to their teams' puzzles in just their first year. The two round out the all-rookie team.
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POSITION / NAME / UNIVERSITY / YEAR / PROGRAM / HOMETOWN
1st Team All Stars
G / Halle Oswald / Alberta / 4 / Arts / Sanford, MB
D / Emma Bergesen / Mount Royal / 3 / Sociology / Stavanger, NO
D / Hannah Koroll / British Columbia / 4 / Business / Saskatoon, SK
F / Tatum Amy / Mount Royal / 5 / Health & Phys. Ed / Birtle, MB
F / Chanreet Bassi / British Columbia / 3 / Arts / Lake Country, BC
F / Alli Borrow / Calgary / 5 / Arts / Clearwater, BC
POSITION / NAME / UNIVERSITY / YEAR / PROGRAM / HOMETOWN
2nd Team All-Stars
G / Gabrielle Durante / Calgary / 3 / Kinesiology / Calgary, AB
D / Rylind MacKinnon / British Columbia / 4 / Kinesiology / Cranbrook, BC
D / Taylor Anker / Alberta / 3 / Education / Sherwood Park, AB
F / Courtney Kollman / Mount Royal / 4 / Science / Calgary, AB
F / Amy Potomak / Trinity Western / 5 / Computer Science / Aldergrove, BC
F / Madison Willan / Alberta / 3 / Science / Edmonton, AB
All-Rookie Team
G / Emily Shippam / Manitoba / 1 / Engineering / Winnipeg, MB
D / Sara Kazeil / Alberta / 1 / Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation / Edmonton, AB
D / Keagan Goulet / Calgary / 1 / Arts / Fort St. John, BC
F / Sydney Mercier / Calgary / 1 / Medicine / Saskatoon, SK
F / Cassidy Rhodes / British Columbia / 1 / Kinesiology / Ardrossan, AB
F / Taylor Wilkinson / Saskatchewan / 1 / Education, Kinesiology / Saskatoon, SK
WOMEN'S ALL-STARS AND ALL-ROOKIES BY TEAM
School / First Team All-Stars / Second Team All-Stars / All-Rookies = TOTAL
- UBC Thunderbirds: 2 / 1 / 1 = 4
- Alberta Pandas: 1 / 2 / 1 = 4
- Calgary Dinos: 1 / 1 / 2 = 4
- Mount Royal Cougars: 2 / 1 / 0 = 3
- Saskatchewan Huskies: 0 / 0 / 1 = 1
- Trinity Western: 0 / 1 / 0 = 1
- Manitoba Bisons: 0 / 0 / 1 = 1