{"id":45826,"date":"2018-02-28T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=45826"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:45","slug":"oua-announces-2017-18-basketball-award-winners-all-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/oua-announces-2017-18-basketball-award-winners-all-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"OUA Announces 2017-18 Basketball Award Winners & All-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n OUA Announces 2017-18 Basketball Award Winners & All-Stars\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

The OUA has announced the 2017-18 basketball major award winners and All-Stars. Both women’s and men’s teams received high honours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s Basketball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The women’s Ravens, whose historic undefeated regular season (23-0) led them to a second consecutive division title, have won Coach of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards, while three players have also been named OUA All-Stars this year. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ currently sits ranked No.1 in the nation heading into the semifinals of the OUA Critelli Cup playoffs. The full list of winners includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taffe Charles<\/strong>
\nHead Coach \u2013 11th Season
\nCoach of the Year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Leblanc<\/strong>
\nForward \u2013 4th year \u2013 London, ON
\nDefensive Player of the Year<\/em>
\nOUA Second-Team All-Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heather Lindsay<\/strong>
\nForward \u2013 5th year \u2013 Ottawa, ON
\nOUA Second-Team All-Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Traer<\/strong>
\nForward \u2013 5th year \u2013 Chelsea, QC
\nOUA Third-Team All-Star
\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the award winners at the Ravens page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men’s Basketball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The men’s Ravens, who completed a second consecutive undefeated season (23-0) and cemented themselves atop a 29th straight U SPORTS Top 10 poll, have won Coach of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards while two players have also been named OUA All-Stars this year. Sitting in the semifinals, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ is looking to capture its first Wilson Cup title since the 2014-15 season. The full list of winners includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Smart<\/strong>
\nHead Coach \u2013 18th Season
\nCoach of the Year
\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcus Anderson<\/strong>
\nGuard \u2013 3rd year \u2013 Brampton, ON
\nDefensive Player of the Year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eddie Ekiyor<\/strong>
\nForward \u2013 2nd year \u2013 Ottawa, ON
\nOUA First-Team All-Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasiin Joseph<\/strong>
\nGuard \u2013 3rd year \u2013 Ottawa, ON
\nOUA First-Team All-Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the award winners at the Ravens page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The OUA has announced the 2017-18 basketball major award winners and All-Stars. Both women’s and men’s teams received high honours. Women’s Basketball The women’s Ravens, whose historic undefeated regular season (23-0) led them to a second consecutive division title, have won Coach of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards, while three players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,167,168],"class_list":["post-45826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-ravens"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47381,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45826\/revisions\/47381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}