The season didn't exactly go the way they had hoped it would, but there was a positive on the final day of the 2014 campaign for the Dinos field hockey team as goalkeeper Alicia Frisch was named the Canada West player of the year.
The Dinos wrapped up their season with a 4-0 loss at the hands of the UBC Thunderbirds in Vancouver Sunday.
Frisch becomes the first Dino to win the honour since Teresa McLachlan earned the same distinction in 2000. Three years earlier in 1997, Marla Richardson became the Dinos' lone winner of the Liz Hoffman award as the top field hockey player in CIS.
Frisch was the most impactful presence for the young Dinos team this year, finishing with a 4.00 goals-against average while playing all 560 minutes of the season. Powerhouse rivals Victoria and UBC kept the scoreless and winless Dinos in their end the majority of the season, but both teams struggled to beat Frisch. On Calgary's road swing to Victoria, Frisch commanded her team to ward off over 40 penalty corners in two games. Besides earning the league's top individual honour, Frisch also took home the Canada West Goalkeeper of the Year award.
Frisch returned to Calgary after completing her undergrad in Economics at Maine to pursue graduate studies in urban design and planning.
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