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Athletes of the Week

John Smits

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    11/8/2010
  • Sport
    Men's Soccer
  • Bio
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Third-year goalkeeper John Smits pulled out all the stops, denying three penalty kicks to lead the Varsity Blues men’s soccer team to a 1-0 upset over the No. 2 York Lions and their first OUA banner since 2002 this past weekend.
 
A native of Mississauga, Ont., Smits recorded his 10th shutout of the season and fifth in the last eight games en route to player of the game laurels in Sunday’s final versus York. 
 
The two-time OUA all-star denied OUA West most valuable player Adrian Pena’s penalty kick attempt, diving to his side to keep the game deadlocked in the 37th minute.  
 
After posting 10 saves over 90 minutes of regulation and 30 of extra time, Smits then stepped up in a big way and made two huge saves over six rounds of penalty kicks, including the game-winning stop on Carlos Noguiera to secure the 1-0 victory.  
 
The fifth-year biology major also led the team to a 3-1 semi-final victory over the Western Mustangs on Saturday, making eight saves in the process.



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Date Athlete Sport
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9/30/2019 Jacob Doroszkiewicz Men's Soccer
9/23/2019 Luca Lombardi Baseball
9/23/2019 Rachel Spouge Field Hockey
9/16/2019 Emily Ziraldo Field Hockey
9/16/2019 Grant Lau Golf
9/9/2019 Clay Sequeira Football
9/9/2019 Miranda Badovinac Women's Soccer
9/2/2019 Jenny Wolever Women's Soccer
9/2/2019 Clay Sequeira Football
8/26/2019 Clay Sequeira Football
3/18/2019 Jenna Woock Women's Volleyball
3/11/2019 Ezana Debalkew Track and Field
3/11/2019 Alina Dormann Women's Volleyball
3/4/2019 Chris Towe Men's Volleyball
3/4/2019 Erica Fryer Women's Ice Hockey
2/25/2019 Peter Collier Track and Field
2/25/2019 Kylie Masse Women's Swimming
2/19/2019 Jonathan Lai Badminton
2/19/2019 Bethany So Women's Badminton
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