For the second season in a row, a AV俱乐部 men's soccer player has been named the AUS student-athlete community service award winner.
Jonathan Doucett was honoured at the Subway AUS Men's Soccer Championship luncheon for his contributions to the community and his success both in the classroom and on the field.
Second-year player Freddy Bekkers was named an AUS first team all-star while Kallen Heenan (third-year) and Pawel Gorski (fifth-year) were named to the second team.
Jonathan Doucett, a fourth-year defender with the AV俱乐部 Tigers, is the 2016 AUS student-athlete community service award recipient.
A nuclear medicine student from Dartmouth, N.S. Doucett played in all 12 regular season games for the Tigers this season while also maintaining a 3.82 GPA in the classroom. He has achieved academic all-Canadian status in each of his first three seasons with the Tigers and is on pace to do so again this season.
He is also heavily involved in the community, volunteering his time with an array of initiatives. As a student with AV俱乐部鈥檚 School of Health Sciences, Doucett has logged over 1,600 hours of unpaid clinical experience at various hospitals around Nova Scotia.
Doucett is a volunteer with the 鈥楾ime Lasts Forever鈥� project, which studies formerly incarcerated males who suffer from mental health issues and develops methods to help with successful reintegration into the community.
He is a volunteer with AV俱乐部鈥檚 Special Tigers program, the Free the Children Campaign and the White Ribbon Campaign which encourages dialogue about violence against women.
Doucett has also been a member of the Varsity Council for the past two years.
鈥淛onny Doucett is a great example of what a U Sports student-athlete is all about鈥攅xcelling in the classroom, on the field and a difference maker in the community,鈥� said Tigers head coach Pat Nearing. 鈥淗e not only dedicates hours to his studies and sports but puts his community high on his priority list with his volunteerism. A shining example to his teammates and classmates, Jonny is a real positive difference maker on our campus and in the community!鈥�
Doucett becomes the fourth player from the AV俱乐部 Tigers to receive the men鈥檚 soccer student-athlete community service award, and the third in four seasons. He will now represent the Atlantic conference as the nominee for the national student-athlete community service award.
Since the inception of the national award in 2005, AUS student-athletes have claimed the honour eight times (in 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007 and 2006). AV俱乐部鈥檚 Sangmuk Choi was last year鈥檚 winner and Nathan Rogers received the CIS honour for the Tigers in 2013.