Four Stingers Women’s Hockey Players Named RSEQ All-Stars

Dubois, Belzile, Allard, and Fillion are RSEQ All-Stars

SportsErika Morris — Published March 14, 2018

Defender and team captain Marie-Joëlle Allard was named to the first team while Claudia Dubois, and Audrey Belzile were named to the second.

Dubois and Belzile were amongst the league’s five most productive players. Forward Lidia Fillion was named the rookie of the year and is on league’s the all-rookie team.

With 20 points, seven goals, and 13 assists, Dubois ranked third in the RSEQ for points. According to head coach Julie Chu, Dubois was a good player out of CEGEP and has improved exponentially since arriving at Concordia.

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“The amount of effort she brings every day and her preparation in the summer, her willingness to learn and her ability to then take what she learned and put it on the ice,” she said. “We’re really proud of what she’s done.”

Belzile ranked fourth with 18 points, 11 goals, and 7 assists and Chu described her as “a little firecracker on the ice.”

“Last year I used to be afraid to play against other teams, but this year my mentality is more that they are afraid to play against us,” said Belzile, showing the attitude that Chu described.

When Allard joined the program five years ago, she felt that the program was lackluster and finished her first season with only two points. Now, in her graduating year, she reached ten points along with her all-stars honour.

“She’s pushed the envelope every year, committed to her off-ice training, [she’s a] really a great student athlete,” said Chu. “As an academic all-Canadian, one of our captains, she has really played some amazing hockey this year to be able to earn that honour.”

All three girls are pleased with their honours, but can all agree that it reflects more on the team than it does on them as individuals.

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“For us all-star honours are always interesting because even though it’s an individual award, we really believe that it’s a team effort that allows individuals to excel and it’s really a compliment to our team as a whole,” said Chu.

The Stingers played their best season since their 1998-99 campaign, winning the RSEQ championship with a 14-4 record in the regular season and a 4-2 record in the postseason.

The team is heading to their second U Sports National Championship in two years as fourth seed, where they will take on the St. Francis Xavier University X-Women in the quarterfinals in London, Ontario on March 16.