Savanna Jordan, Cross Country
First-year runner Savanna Jordan is this week’s MUSCLE MLK Female Athlete of the Week.
Savanna got her first AUS win at Saturday’s DAL/SMU Cross Country Invitational on Saturday at Point Pleasant Park.
She was out in the front pack from the start and distanced herself from the others during the last lap of the race. She finished in a time of 22:39, 45 seconds ahead of the next AUS runner.
A kinesiology student, Savanna is from Calgary, A.B.
Other nominee: Kate Fines (soccer)
Jonathan Doucett, Soccer
Fifth-year defender Jonathan Doucett is this week’s MUSCLE MLK Male Athlete of the Week.
Jonathan scored his first goal of the season in the Tigers 1-1 draw with StFX on Friday night in Halifax.
He found the back of the net off a corner kick in the 89th minute to knot the match at one apiece.
A native of Dartmouth, N.S., Jonathan is in his first year of medicine.
Other nominee: Cal Dewolfe (cross country)