FH: Victoria's Anna Mollenhauer named CW Player of the Year
VANCOUVER - The 2021 Canada West Field Hockey major award winners and all-stars were announced by the conference on Monday, following the conclusion of the regular season.
Victoria's Anna Mollenhauer was named the Canada West Player of the Year for the second time after helping guide the Vikes to another conference title in 2021. The fourth-year defender also won the award in 2018.
Victoria's Chole Langkammer (Rookie of the Year), Calgary's Tayler Guy (Goalkeeper of the Year) and Jennifer Wishart (Gail Wilson Nominee), along with UBC's Poonam Sandhu (Coach of the Year) were also named major award winners in 2021.
The Vikes and Thunderbirds each placed four players on the Canada West All-Star team, while the Dinos had three players selected as all-stars.
Victoria capped off its 2021 conference title on the weekend, finishing the Canada West season undefeated after eight games over two double round-robin tournament weekends. The Vikes' conference title is their third straight and 22nd overall.
The Vikes will head to Ontario to take on the OUA Champion in a best-of-three series for the 2021 U SPORTS title November 11-14.
AWARD WINNERS
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Anna Mollenhauer
Defender Fourth-year Victoria, B.C. Education
A fourth-year defender, Mollenhauer helped guide the Vikes to an undefeated record in Canada West play in the 2021 season, tallying four goals on the season in addition to helping UVic secure five shutout wins.
Adding to her accolades, Mollenhauer was the Canada West Rookie of the Year in 2017, and 2018 Player of the Year, also being named a Canada West All-Star in 2017, 2018, and 2019. In addition, the Victoria, B.C. native was selected as the 2019 U SPORTS national championship MVP and a two-time All-Canadian and Top 8 Academic All-Canadian.
A member of Team Canada Junior Women's Field Hockey team, Mollenhauer won gold at the 2021 Pan American games, including the scoring the winning goal in Canada's game against Uruguay, prior to starting the U SPORTS season.
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Chloe Langkammer
Forward/Midfield First-year Duncan, B.C. Education
Wasting no time in her first season on the pitch with the Vikes, Chloe Langkammer led the offensive effort for Victoria with nine goals on the season en route to an undefeated season and Canada West Rookie of the Year honours.
An eight-game starter for the Vikes in 2021, Langkammer was a consistent presence in the Vikes' attacking 23, maneuvering her way around defenders tactfully to become a top offensive producer for Victoria. Lankgammer finished the conference season with eight goals as the Vikes out-scored their opponents 32-3 across all eight conference games. Six of those goals came in the Vikes' home-opening tournament and all came from field goals
The sister of former Vikes U SPORTS national champion and team captain Stefanie Langkammer, Chloe looks to help the Vikes earn their third-straight U SPORTS championship this season.
GOALKEEPER OF THE YEAR: Tayler Guy
Goalkeeper 2nd-year Victoria, B.C. Arts
Calgary Dinos goalkeeper Tayler Guy is the conference's Goalkeeper of the Year.
It's the second straight season the Victoria, B.C. native has won the award, after earning both Goalkeeper and Rookie of the Year honours in 2019.
The second-year Dino appeared in all eight games for Calgary this season.
GAIL WILSON AWARD NOMINEE: Jennifer Wishart
Forward 3rd Year Calgary, Alta. Education
Calgary Dino Jennifer Wishart is the Canada West's Outstanding Contributor and the league's nominee for the U SPORTS Gail Wilson Award.
Wishart has played a big role for both the Dinos program and the field hockey community in her hometown of Calgary. The third-year forward continues to oversee the fundraising aspects of the Dinos women's field hockey team and has helped streamline and incorporate teammates into the process.
In the community, Wishart has been a coach for a U16 team for the last four years. Outside of field hockey, Wishart volunteers for Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids, helping to provide lunches to kids who would otherwise go hungry.
COACH OF THE YEAR: Poonam Sandhu
Poonam Sandhu has just completed her third year as head coach of the Thunderbirds and led her young squad to a 4-4 record and a silver medal to conclude the revised tournament style Canada West season.
Sandhu takes a holistic approach in her coaching duties and counts communication with her team as a top priority. The former Thunderbirds captain, five time U SPORTS national champion and member of the Canadian women's field hockey team isn't far removed from her own playing days and is able to draw on her own experiences and successes to relate to and support today's student-athletes and what they deal with both on and off the field.
Sandhu has had a massive impact on both her programs culture and the Athletic departments culture being front and center in driving important initiatives.
UMPIRE OF THE YEAR: Tyler Klenk
- Regina, Sask.
2021 ALL-STARS
- D / Kaileigh Chow / UBC / 4 / Vancouver, BC / Science
- M / Jordyn Faiczak / UBC / 4 / Waterloo, ON / Science
- G / Robin Fleming / Victoria / 4 / Duncan, BC / Social Sciences
- M / Izzy Fraser / UBC / 3 / Vancouver, BC / Arts
- D / Madison Gaffney / 1 / Calgary / Arts
- D / Sara Goodman / UBC / 4 / Duncan, BC / Arts
- G / Tayler Guy / Calgary / 2 / Victoria, BC / Arts
- D / Libby Hogg / Victoria / 1 / Victoria, BC / Social Sciences
- F/M / Chloe Langkammer / Victoria / 1 / Duncan, BC / Education
- D / Anna Mollenhauer / Victoria / 4 / Victoria, BC / Education
- M / Melanie Scholz / Calgary / 3 / Calgary, AB / Kinesiology