Burnaby athletes brought back two player-of-the-week honours to SFU this week, one from between the pipes on the pitch and one from the greens.
Sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Loewen is atop of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) in shutouts, recording two in as many starts to earn the women's soccer defensive player of the week.
On the course, Red Leafs golfer Denby Carswell earned his first-ever weekly honour after tallying his best round of the 2023-24 season.
Loewen, a Burnaby Mountain Secondary grad, made nine saves in two games last week as SFU blanked Northwest Nazarene 1-0 (Oct. 5) and 4-0 over Central Washington (Oct. 7).
Those were her fourth and fifth shutouts of the season, the most in the GNAC to date.
Loewen, following her second player of the week nod, also leads the NCAA Div. II conference with 32 saves, a 0.50 goals-against average and a .889 save percentage.
The psychology student was also a former member of the U15 Canadian National Championship team.
Meanwhile, Carswell's first GNAC player of the week award came after he carded the top three-round total among men's golfers in the conference last week.
He finished tied for 12th at the Chico State Invitational in California with a three-day total of 214 strokes (-2).
That included a three-under-par opening round of 69, which, to date, is his best round of the year.
Carswell's tournament outing improved his scoring average to 72 shots per round, good enough for third-best in GNAC.
