A member of the Humber Hawks women's basketball team made history this week.
Ceejay Nofuente has been named the 2016 National Player of the Year, as announced by the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) committee Wednesday evening. The award was presented to her at the annual CCAA All-Canadian Banquet in Windsor.
Since the award's inception in 1978, no player at a current school within the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) has garnered this prestigious honour. This year she has already been named an All-Canadian, OCAA women's basketball player of the year, championship most valuable player and first-team all-star.
Also at the banquet in Windsor, women's basketball head coach Ajay Sharma was named 2016's National Coach of the Year. He is only the sixth Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) coach to claim this honour.
Sharma ranks second all-time in career win percentage across the CCAA. Last season, he took Humber to only their second CCAA final four appearance in program history.
Sharma, Nofuente and the rest of the Humber Hawks will now attempt to become the first women's program from the OCAA to win a national championship. In their quarter-final matchup, Humber will be playing the St. Mary's Lightning today at 3 p.m. The men's basketball team plays their quarter-final game against Camosun College at 4 p.m.
And last week, the women's volleyball team captured bronze in the CCAA championships in Charlottetown, PEI. It was the team's first time winning a CCAA championship medal.