Miranda Ross (St. Catharines, ON) of the Women’s Basketball team and Yosef Zaid (Windsor, ON) of the Men’s Volleyball team are the Niagara College Knights Athletes of the Week (January 16 – 22, 2012).
Ross, a first-year player and graduate of Eden High School, had a solid weekend in a pair of games for the Knights. The 6′ 1″ center had 11 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the Knights 69-39 win over Sault College on Saturday. On Sunday, she just missed recording back-to-back double-doubles by scoring a team high 16 points while grabbing 9 rebounds in a 64-54 loss to the Algoma University Thunderbirds. Ross is in the Occupational and Physio Therapy Assistant program at Niagara.
Yosef Zaid had 15 kills and three service aces for a team-high 18 points in the Knights 3-2 loss to the Mohawk College Mountaineers last Wednesday. The first-year 6′ 0″ outside hitter is enrolled in the Health and Fitness Promotion program at Niagara.
