2025 CapU Blues Awards Banquet

The annual Capilano Blues Awards Banquet was held Tuesday, April 8 with dozens of student-athletes honoured.

Posted: Apr 09, 2025

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A host of Blues student-athletes, coaches and CapU administrators graced the stage at Seymour Golf & Country Club April 8 to celebrate Capilano's athletic and academic excellence in the 2024-25 season.

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There were a couple of new awards added this year and also some new faces for each of the major awards (bottom of list below).

Here are the 2024-25 Blues Awards Banquet recipients:

PACWEST AWARDS

PACWEST ALL-STARS:
Women's Basketball: Mia Parkin, Barcha Hnizdilova
Men's Basketball: Kash Lang, Damein Coleman
Women's Soccer: Mya Fraser, Maya Smith
Men's Soccer: Sebastian Cirotto, Riley Marshall, Tommy Millar
Women's Volleyball: Abby Betker, Annika Kuznik, Nnya Mbaoma
Men's Volleyball: Xavier Mazstak

PACWEST ALL-ROOKIE TEAMS:
Women's Basketball: Mia Parkin
Men's Basketball: Ajay Hayer
Women's Volleyball: Mollie English, Ella Green
Men's Volleyball: Xavier Mazstak

PACWEST ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
Women's Basketball: Mia Parkin

PACWEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Men's Basketball: Damein Coleman

PACWEST ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE:
Women's Basketball - Maddy Coffin, Jenna Griffin, Barcha Hnizdilova, Sereena Hothi, Lauren Tomlinson
Men's Basketball - Arshya Ghasemi
Women's Soccer - Isabella Bolognese, Maya Smith
Men's Soccer - Luca Dal Sasso, Brandon Lecce, Adam Majuerae, Riley Marshall, Tommy Millar, Hami Mai Mokhtari
Women's Volleyball - Sibby Bos, Makenna Hamilton-Jackson, Natalie Rourke, Stephanie Sung, Kristen Young
Men's Volleyball - Brayden Labossiere, Nate Raabe

CCAA AWARDS

CCAA ACADEMIC ALL-CANADIANS (Nominees):
Women's Basketball - Maddy Coffin, Barcha Hnizdilova, Mia Parkin
Men's Basketball - Damein Coleman
Women's Soccer - Mya Fraser, Maya Smith
Men's Soccer - Riley Marshall, Tommy Millar
Women's Volleyball - Nnya Mbaoma
Men's Volleyball - Xavier Masztak

CapU AWARDS

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY BLUES MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS:
Women's Basketball - Mia Parkin
Men's Basketball - Ahmad Athman
Women's Soccer - Mya Fraser
Men's Soccer - Tommy Millar
Women's Volleyball - Nnya Mbaoma
Men's Volleyball - Oliver Westhaver

SCHOLAR ATHLETES OF DISTINCTION:
Women's Basketball - Steffi Bael, Ella Baird, Maddy Coffin, Jenna Griffin, Barcha Hnizdilova, Sereena Hothi, Teigan Manson, Mia Parkin, Kim Tiu, Lauren Tomlinson
Men's Basketball - Damein Coleman, Sukhraj Garcha, Arshya Ghasemi, Ty Klim, Zach Klim, Justin Pamintuan, Josh Vandevelde
Women's Soccer - Isabella Bolognese, Jessica Fong, Ayesha Fraser, Mya Fraser, Vienna Gabel, Kaitlyn Johnson, Chanelle Morris, Michaela Salvino, Maya Smith, Maya Van Ryk
Men's Soccer - Luca Dal Sasso, Stefano Dal Sasso, Brandon Lecce, Adam Majuerae, Riley Marshall, Tommy Millar, Hami Mai Mokhtari, Kaden Routley
Women's Volleyball - Ella Andreola, Sibby Bos, Mollie English, Ella Green, Makenna Hamilton-Jackson, Monica Hoffman, Grace Jerome, Nnya Mbaoma, Natalie Rourke, Stephanie Sung, Sophie Yarish, Kristen Young
Men's Volleyball - Kai Haley Lo Yan, Xavier Masztak, Nate Raabe, Tristan Shanks

TEAM ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT:
Women's Volleyball - Team GPA of 3.571, Fall 2024 term

MOST IMPROVED TEAM GPA AWARD:
Men's Basketball - Team GPA of 3.26, Fall 2024 term

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Women's Basketball - Barcha Hnizdilova, Mia Parkin
Men's Volleyball - Xavier Masztak
CapU president Paul Dangerfield presents the International Academic Excellence Award to (from left) Xavier Masztak, Barcha Hnizdilova and Mia Parkin.

FIFTH- AND FOURTH-YEAR GRADUATING STUDENT-ATHLETES:
Women's Soccer - Mya Fraser, Maya Smith
Men's Soccer - Jeremy Monn-Djasngar
Women's Volleyball - Maya Jovic
Women's Basketball - Jenna Griffin
Graduating Blues athletes (from left) Maya Jovic, Jenna Griffin, Mya Fraser, Maya Smith and Jeremy Monn-Djasngar.

CapU DONOR AWARDS

KASRA SHADMEHR AWARD:
Men's Volleyball - Connor Collinson-Lea
Connor Collinson-Lea of men's volleyball accepts the Shadmehr Award from Kasra Shadmerh.

WILLIAM MCEWEN MEMORIAL AWARD:
Women's Basketball - Lauren Tomlinson
Men's Basketball - Ahmad Athman
Women's Soccer - Amaya Salvino
Men's Soccer - Tommy Millar
Women's Volleyball - Nnya Mbaoma
Men's Volleyball - Oliver Westhaver

COCA-COLA ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE AWARD:
Women's Soccer - Sophie Pather

JENN BODNAR ALL-AROUND EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Women's Basketball - Jenna Griffin

GRAHAM COATES MEMORIAL AWARD:
Men's Soccer - Adam Majuerae

COLLEEN & GORDON NORDSTROM MEMORIAL BURSARY:
Men's Soccer - Hami Mai Mokhtari

FRANK PUPP AWARD:
Women's Soccer - Alex Roed

JOSEPH IACOBELLIS AWARD:
Women's Basketball - Maddy Coffin
Men's Soccer - Jeremy Monn-Djasngar