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Helsby gets All-Rookie nod
Sea~Hawk guard Mike Helsby was named to the conference All-Rookie Team in an announcement made at the 2010 Subway AUS Men’s Basketball Championship in Cape Breton this weekend. Helsby, a rookie from Waterloo, was a key contributor for Memorial this season. He was among the top three Sea~Hawks in five statistical categories, points, rebounds, assists, steals, and free throw shooting.
Helsby averaged 9.6 points per game, tying him with Steven Earles
for third on the team. His 1.6 steals per game were tops on the
team. He started in sixteen of the twenty regular season games for
Memorial and was second on the team in minutes played with 29.7 per
game. For much of the season Helsby was called upon to be the
primary ball carrier for the ‘Hawks, making his 4.7 rebounds
per game all the more impressive.
The conference all-rookie nod caps off a fine rookie performance
for Helsby. He is only the second men’s basketball player at
Memorial to be named to the AUS All-Rookie team. Jason Shepherd was
named a selection in 2007-08. The AUS first recognized an
all-rookie team at the end of the 2006-07 season.
Other major award winners recognized in the announcement were:
MVP – Christian Upshaw St. FX
Rookie of the Year – Owen Klassen Acadia
Defensive Player of the Year – Philip
Nkrumah Cape Breton
Coach of the Year – Jim Charters Cape
Breton
Community Service and Student-Athlete Award
– Andrew Sullivan Dalhousie
First team all-stars:
Christian Upshaw, StFX
(4th year - Halifax, NS)
Joey Haywood, Saint Mary's (3rd year - Vancouver, BC)
Jimmy Dorsey, Cape Breton (2nd year - Westminster, MD)
Mark McLaughlin, Saint Mary's (5th year - Dartmouth, NS)
Simon Farine, Dalhousie (4th year - Toronto, ON)
Second team all-stars:
Will Silver, StFX (4th
year - Halifax, NS)
Phillip Nkrumah, Cape Breton (4th year - Malton, ON)
Paris Carter, Cape Breton (4th year - Baltimore, MD)
Alex Traikov, Acadia (5th year - Mississauga, ON)
Joe Schow, Dalhousie (4th year - Medicine Hat, AB)
All-rookie team:
Owen Klassen, Acadia
(Kingston, ON)
Anthony Sears, Acadia (Riverview, NB)
Jordan Clarke, StFX (Oakville, ON)
Mike Helsby, Memorial (Waterloo, ON)
Daniel Quiron, UNB (Moncton, NB)