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MONTREAL – Moustafa El Zanaty of Montreal and Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., are the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ athletes of the week, for the period ending Nov. 2, 2008.

El Zanaty, a 6-foot-4, 195-pound guard on the men’s basketball team, exploded for 97 points, 21 rebounds 11 assists, two blocked shots and a pair of steals over three road games in Nova Scotia last week. He was named twice as McGill’s player of the game, in a 93-90 win over Saint Mary’s and a 93-75 loss to Dalhousie, where his 44-point performance was the highest single-game offensive output by a McGill player in 33 years.

Including Sunday’s 90-75 victory over Acadia, the 25-year-old finance & treasury senior, combined to shoot 40.1 per cent from the field (29/71) over the three contests, plus an impressive 43.3 per cent from three-point range (13/30) and a stellar 83.9 per cent from the foul line (26/31). El Zanaty is a graduate of Champlain College in St. Lambert, Que.

Thomson, a 5-foot-7 All-Canadian power-hitter on the women’s volleyball squad, helped McGill outlast visiting Laval 3-2 in a two-hour, 20-minute marathon at Love Competition Hall last Friday. The 21-year-old physical education junior had 13 kills to go along with a team-leading 24 digs, four assists and one stuff block. She enrolled at McGill in 2005 out of John Abbott College and won CIS rookie-of-the-year honours in her freshman campaign.

SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
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