Peroff & Wright named De Facto Quebec athletes of the week

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Peroff & Wright named De Facto Quebec athletes of the week

Published: 14 March 2011

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MONTREAL -- McGill hockey players Jordanna Peroff of Keswick, Ont., and Andrew Wright of Toronto, are the De Facto Quebec university athletes of the week for the period ending March 14, 2011.

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It marks the 11th and 12th time this season that McGill student-athletes have captured the conference's weekly awards, as selected by the R茅seau du sport 茅tudiant du Qu茅bec.

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Peroff, a 21-year-old senior majoring in world religions, was named tournament MVP and led all scorers with five points in three games as McGill captured the CIS women's hockey championship in Waterloo, Ont., over the weekend. The 5-foot-6 forward set up two goals in a 4-2 win over Alberta last Thursday, then tallied the game-winner in a 3-1 victory over Queen's on Saturday. She then scored once and assisted on the winning goal in a 5-2 decision over St. F.X. in Sunday's gold medal affair. Peroff, who was named player of the game in each of the last two contests, enrolled at McGill in 2007 out of Keswick high school.

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Wright, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound right-winger with the men's hockey team, scored three points and was named Harrow Sports player of the game in McGill's 6-2 road victory over the Western Ontario Mustangs en route to capturing the centennial edition of the OUA's Queen's Cup league championship. The 21-year-old economics junior scored McGill's second marker to give the Redmen a 2-0 lead, the added helpers to give improve that to 4-1 and 4-2 leads, respectively. Prior to McGill, he attended the Crescent School.

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Previous Quebec athlete of the week recipients from McGill include basketball players Marie-Eve Martin (Feb. 1) and Anneth Him-Lazarenko (Nov. 30), distance runner Sarah McCuaig (twice: Sept. 20 and Nov. 1), hockey players Francis Verreault-Paul (Oct. 26), Alex Picard-Hooper (twice: Oct. 16, Jan. 9) and Caroline Hill (Mar. 7), rugby player Gideon Balloch (Nov. 16), plus soccer star Alexandra Morin-Boucher (Sept. 13).

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De Facto is an innovative tobacco prevention campaign led by Sport 脡tudiant, geared towards听eliminating smoking among young adults and revealing the truth about the consequences of using tobacco.

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