OTTAWA (CIS) - Guelph cross country runner Lindsay Carson and Toronto soccer player Alexander Raphael are the BlackBerry Canadian Interuniversity Sport female and male athletes of the week for the period ending Sept. 27, 2009.

Carson, a third-year biological engineering student from Cambridge, Ont., shattered a 22-year-old course and meet record last Saturday when she captured her third straight Western International individual title with a time of 17 minutes and one second. The previous Thames Valley Golf Course mark was held by Western Ontario's Sandra Anschuetz, who won the five-kilometre event in 17:15 back in 1987. Carson has led the Gryphon women to the CIS cross country team title each of the past two years while claiming individual gold in 2007 and bronze last season.

Soccer players Tessa Roche of UPEI, Alexandra Morin-Boucher of McGill and Elizabeth Hudon of Saskatchewan were also nominated for the women's award.

Raphael, a fourth-year political science student from East York, Ont., scored back-to-back game-winning goals on the road last weekend propelling the Varsity Blues (4-1-2) to the top of the OUA East standings and ninth place in the CIS national rankings. The 5-foot-8 striker tallied the go-ahead goal in the 69th minute in a 3-1 upset win over then-nationally-ranked Laurentian on Saturday, and then broke a scoreless tie in a 2-0 shutout of Nipissing on Sunday.

Soccer players Shayne Hollis of Cape Breton, Nicolas Benoît of UQTR and David Rowse of Trinity Western were the other male nominees.

Female nominees:
AUS: Tessa Roche, soccer, UPEI
QSSF: Alexandra Morin-Boucher, soccer, McGill
OUA: Lindsay Carson, cross country, Guelph (recipient)
Canada West: Elizabeth Hudon, soccer, Saskatchewan

Male nominees:
AUS: Shayne Hollis, soccer, Cape Breton
QSSF: Nicolas Benoît, soccer, UQTR
OUA: Alexander Raphael, soccer, Toronto (recipient)
Canada West: David Rowse, soccer, Trinity Western


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