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w w w .insidehalton.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, A ugust 2 5 , 2 0 1 7 | 74 CWHL Toronto Furies draft Capizzano second overall By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff Most college freshmen have to wait a year or two before making their mark with a top program. Kristyn Capizzano was an exception. She arrived at Boston College with an impressive resume that included back-to-back world under-18 titles, the second of which she served as Canada's captain. She had helped the Mississauga Chiefs capture a provin cial championship and finished her junior career among the Provincial Women's Hockey League's top-10 all-time scorers. She didn't miss a beat with the Eagles, putting up 26 points in her freshman season. "I was given a great opportunity there right from my freshman year to learn and improve," Capizzano said. "Getting to play with and against all those awesome players, it challenges you." Capizzano's next challenge awaits her this fall, when she'll join the Toronto Furies, who took her with the second overall pick in Sunday's Canadian Women's Hock ey League draft. "I was definitely humbled and honoured to get drafted that high," the Oakville native said. She joins a Furies team that struggled to score last season and will be without its leading scorer, Natalie Spooner, who will be at Hockey Canada's centralized train ing camp as the national team pre pares for the Olympics. The Furies were competitive, finishing the season with a 9-11-3 record, largely due to their defen sive play. Toronto allowed just 2.41 goals per game and Capizzano's strong two-way game will fit right in, but she'll also have more oppor tunity to contribute offensively. Capizzano finished her collegiate career with 102 points and helped Boston College reach three straight Frozen Fours, including the 2016 championship game where the Ea gles were edged 3-1 by Minnesota. The Oakville native said colle giate hockey helped her improve her game and she expects a similar adjustment in the CWHL. "Decision making was the biggest thing. You have to think a lot faster because the play moves so quickly," she said. "There are a lot of good players in the league so it's going to push you to be better every day." The league will also take her and her teammates on an interesting road trip with two Chinese expan sion teams joining the league this season. "The inclusion of both Chi OAK swimmers win third title in five years at national meet The Oakville Aquatic Club won 17 medals on its way to its third team title in five years at the Ca nadian Swimming Champion ships in Montreal. Led by Mabel Zavaros, who won five individual medals and tied for the women's high point title, OAK finished with 1,149 points. OAK finished second in both the men's and women's overall standings, but its combined total gave it 124 more than the runnerup, the UBC Dolphins. Mack Darragh also provided a highlight by setting a new Cana dian record in the men's 200-me tre butterfly. His time of 1:56.87 broke the mark of former OAK swimmer Zack Chetrat, who es tablished the previous record of 1:56.90 while earning a silver medal at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. OAK teammate Connor Wilkins took the bronze medal in the race. In addition to her individual golds in the women's 100m and 200m butterfly, Zavaros, compet ing at the world junior champion ships this week, also contributed to a pair of OAK relay golds. She also earned a silver medal in the women's 400m individual medley and bronze medals in the 1,500m freestyle and 200m backstroke. She narrowly missed another medal with a fourth-place fin ish in the 50m butterfly and was eighth in the 50m freestyle. In addition to his win in the 200m butterfly, Darragh also won the men's 200m IM and took the bronze medal in the 100m but terfly. He was seventh in the 50m butterfly. Jacqueline Keire earned three medals, with silver medals in the 100m and 200m freestyle and a bronze in the 50m freestyle. Tessa Cieplucha had seven top-10 finishes, including bronze medals in the women's 400m IM and the 800m freestyle. She was also fourth in the 1,500m free style, 200m IM, sixth in the 400m freestyle, seventh in the 200m freestyle and 10th in the 200m butterfly. Zavaros, Keire, Cieplucha and Kennady Kilger took the gold medal in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay. Photo courtesy Boston College Photo by Chris Tanouye - CWHL After a collegiate career in which she recorded more than 100 points with Boston College, Oakville's Kristyn Capizzano (left photo) was selected second overall in the CWHL draft by the Toronto Furies. During her collegiate career, Capizzano helped the Eagles reach three consecutive Frozen Fours, including the 2016 NCAA championship game. In right photo, Capizzano is flanked by league commissioner Brenda Andress, left, and Toronto Furies general manager Nicole Latreille. nese teams will help the growth of the CWHL, as well as women's hockey as a whole. It will bring a unique aspect to the league and create a competitive atmosphere for all players," she said. "Having the chance to play in China will definitely be a great experience for each team and will give women's hockey a great opportunity to learn and grow." That road trip will be nothing new for Oakville's Lindsay Grigg, who was selected 10th overall by the Markham Thunder. The 24-year-old is currently in China with Canada's inline hockey team for the world championships, which begin today (Friday). After graduating from Roch ester Institute of Technology in 2015, Grigg played in the National Women's Hockey League's first sea son with the Buffalo Beauts. Last season she went overseas to play for HV71 in Sweden last season, finishing fourth in team scoring. At RIT, Grigg won a national Di vision III championship as well as back-to-back conference titles after the team made the jum p to Divi sion I. Having played both defence and forward throughout her college career, Grigg's versatility will be a boost to Markham, which will lose leading scorer Laura Stacey as well as two blueliners to the national team camp. Markham will also inherit a player with a knack for delivering clutch goals. Grigg scored overtime winners in the national semifinal in 2012 and the conference cham pionship-winning goal in double OT in 2014. She also scored the ty ing goal as RIT defended its confer ence title in overtime a year later. Ontario Football Officials Association, an umbrella group for a number of referee associations in the province, had a special guest at its annual golf tournament ear lier this month at the Burlington Springs Golf Club. New Canadian Football League commissioner Randy Ambrosie (holding sweater), an Oakville resident, was given an honorary membership to the Lakeshore Football Officials Association. Also in the photo is (from left) LFOA president Ron MacVinnie, OUA official Paul Duncan and Canadian Football Hall of Fame member Jake Ireland. | photo by Kevin Nagel - Burlington Post