Mountie named CIS 2007 all-star

Windsor’s Gary Ross ('10) had another successful year with the Mount Allison University football Mounties and has just been named an All-Canadian in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conference as the nation’s best special teams player.

From his very first game of the season, last year, he has been a cornerstone for the Mounties’ successes.

Ross, a five-foot-nine, 178-pound multi-purpose player for the football Mounties, won university athlete of the month honours for September; twice won Mount A athlete of the week; three times was honoured as AUS conference athlete of the week; once was named the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conference athlete of the week; and at season’s end, was selected as the AUS league’s top wide receiver and the conference’s best special teams player.

Ross led the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) conference in both punt return yardage (686) and kick return yardage (607). For the second year in a row, he led the Atlantic conference in all-purpose yardage.

That statistic included a league-high 633 receiving yards, as well as two returned punts and two kickoff returns for touchdowns. Also this year, he found the end zone five times as a receiver.

In eight regular season games, he accumulated over 200 all-purpose yards on five occasions, over 100-yards receiving three times, and was the only player in the conference to score a touchdown in every game.

A 2006-’07 AUS conference all-star returner and receiver, Ross is also a former city all-star and MVP from Riverside Secondary School in Windsor, Ont. As a rookie last season, he was named as one of Mount Allison’s University athletes of the year, and the football team’s overall MVP, and offensive MVP.

He is in second-year science and plans to pursue a career in medicine.

Sackville Tribune