Cougars selected by their peers

The ACAC Futsal All-conference Awards were handed out this past week with three MRU players winning honours as voted on by the opposing coaches around the league.   A special congratulations goes out to Karlee Hodl (1st year), Donella Lockhart (2nd year), and Danika Cook (1st year) Cougars!  

In addition, the head coach took the honour of becoming the Coach of the Year for the Futsal League and is pleased and grateful to have received such an award; again being nominated by his peers.  "The Coach of the year is great honour to receive but in all honesty, the players play in the matches and this award is based on overall results - this award is a team award."  --Coach Fusco. 

03/06/12...ACAC...The Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference is please to announce the 2011-12 ACAC Women's Futsal All-Conference Teams as selected by their coaches.

All-Conference 1st Team	All-Conference 2nd Team
Jacie Brusky (MHC)  Karlee Hodl (MRU) Donella Lockhart (MRU) April Weigelt (Keyano) Cassandra Westerman (MHC)	Meghan Beatty (MHC) Lauren Bonokoski (Keyano) Danika Cook (MRU) Alison Parry (Ambrose) Kiara Stasiuk (Lakeland)

03/07/12...ACAC...The Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference is please to announce Tino Fusco of the Mount Royal University Cougars as the 2011-12 ACAC Women's Futsal Coach of the Year as selected by his peers.

Mount Royal women’s futsal coach Tino Fusco, helped the Cougars to the number one seed in the conference - winning the ACAC’s first futsal tournament of the year, and finishing second in the other.
Outscoring their opposition 60-14 in eight games, the Cougar compiled a solid 6-1-1 record heading into the ACAC championship.

A native of Regina, Sasktachewan, Tino is in his third season coaching with the Cougars, after previously working as an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s teams.

In addition to his Mount Royal coaching duties, Tino is a certified Alberta Soccer Coaching Course Instructor and teaches the MRU Soccer PHED Class.

This will be Tino's second coach of the year award, previously winning ACAC women’s soccer coach of the year in 2009-10.

Congratulations Tino on your award!