McGill volleyball’s Guidara named RSEQ athlete of the week

MONTREAL – Selima Guidara of the McGill University women’s volleyball program has been named among the RSEQ athletes of the week, presented by Go Pure, for the period ending Jan. 12, 2025. She was selected along with Anthony Labbé from the Laval men’s track and field team.
 
McGillians have now merited 10 athlete-of-the-week honours at the conference level this season (see list below).
 
Guidara, a 21-year-old political science sophomore and starting setter for the volleyball Martlets, battled through intense flu symptoms to register a whopping 80 assists as McGill upset undefeated Sherbrooke 3-1 and third-place Laval 3-2 over the weekend. In nine sets overall, the six-footer was also credited with 15 digs, seven service aces, five kills, one stuff block and five assisted blocks. Remarkably, her calming influence and productive passing skills helped three different players register 10 (or more) kills in Friday’s road win at Sherbrooke and guided another four teammates to reach the 10-kill plateau in Sunday’s home-court victory over Laval.  Guidara enrolled at McGill in 2023 after played CEGEP volleyball at Collège Bois-de-Boulogne.
 
Labbé, a 23-year-old quantitative finance junior, hails from St. Odilon de Cranbourne, Que. The 6-foot-1 throws specialist won gold in the shotput with a distance of 15.81 metres at the Sherbrooke Invitational meet.
 
Previous weekly laureates by McGill athletes this season include basketball’s Lily Rose Chatila (Nov. 26), swimmers Emilia Mastromatteo (Nov. 12) and Loic Courville-Fortin (Oct. 15), soccer’s Chloe Renaud (Sept. 10) and cross-country runner Sophie Courville (Oct. 1), in addition to four RSEQ football players of the week awards: Eloa Latendresse-Regimbald (three times: Sept. 9, Oct. 22, Oct. 28) and Ryan McNally (Oct. 28)

SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
McGill Athletics and Recreation
(514) 983- 7012
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
www.mcgillathletics.ca