Ceejay Nofuente

Ceejay just completed the most successful season an athlete can experience in Canadian Collegiate basketball, winning every individual and team award available to a student-athlete. She led the Hawks to its first-ever CCAA national crown, and in fact, the first national title for any Ontario women’s sports team (basketball, soccer, volleyball) in the 39 years of CCAA play. Along the way, she was the OCAA and CCAA Player of the Year and lived up to this billing by winning the OCAA and CCAA Championship tournament MVP awards. For her efforts, she was named as the OCAA Female Athlete of the Year—Across All Sports.

In her OCAA career, she has led her Humber teams to a league record of 51–3 and a playoff mark of 8–1. The Hawks have medaled in every year she has played. She has found her niche in the classroom as well, excelling in her third year of the Sport Management Program at Humber’s North Campus. Ceejay, based on her incredible exploits, is so deserving to be recognized for a 2016 Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship.

Eugenio Garro

Eugenio, currently enrolled in the Journalism—Advanced Diploma program at Humber College, is a contributing member of the Humber College Varsity Sports Information Team and a standout on the Hawks men’s soccer team. In the classroom, Eugenio has excelled, carrying a 75% average, as he heads into his third and final year of the program. He is well-respected as a journalist and has contributed many articles to the college’s main student online newspaper.

As the number one writer for the Humber Sports Information team, he has had his articles published to all of the social media platforms within the Humber Varsity area. Additionally, he has writing credits for SOAR Magazine—The Official Magazine of Humber Varsity Alumni. His sport of choice is soccer, and he has initiated a unique approach to journalism. He plays for the men’s team, then watches the women’s game, and then does full game reports for both. His ability to remove himself as a player when writing is quite remarkable.

His athletic prowess is well-documented, as he is a three-time men’s soccer national champion with the Hawks and two-time national championship MVP.

Jake Thomson

Jake took over last year as the voice of the Humber Hawks, sitting in the public address chair for Humber Hawk home games. This is the same chair that has featured broadcasting greats such as Herbie Kuhn of the Toronto Raptors and Aris Xenarios of Toronto FC. His experience, and more so, the outstanding job he did, has spurred him on to heading to the Radio Broadcasting Program at Humber College. He has returned to the broadcast chair this year and has taken over an even larger role. Just recently, he was the voice of the 2016 OCAA Men’s Baseball Championship hosted by Humber and competed for at Etobicoke’s own Connorvale Park. He can also be heard on the live streaming of all Hawks home volleyball and basketball games.

Jake has an incredible sporting background to support his broadcasting endeavors. Prior to his current program, he was a student in the three-year Sport Management Program. As an athlete, he is entering his fourth year on the Hawks Cross Country Team and was crowned a national champion a few short years ago.

Brittany Verge

Brittany Verge is a sophomore midfielder that brings veteran leadership and confidence that has proved to be invaluable to Humber’s young squad. After transferring from Sheridan College, Verge established herself as a prominent student-athlete in the Practical Nursing program. Last season she was named to the OCAA All-Star team in addition to OCAA All-Academic and CCAA Academic AllCanadian honours. Now she is working towards winning provincial and national championships.

Verge said Humber has impacted her goals thanks to such a welcoming and motivational support system. In turn, she hopes to set the example that athletes can be good at their sport while doing well in school. Verge said life experiences have directed her to a growing passion for health care. She said she wants to be able to bring attention to health, well-being and quality of life through her studies and through volunteering with blood pressure clinics, health teaching in hospitals and with organizations like the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Johnny Sheridan

Johnny Sheridan is a fly half for the men’s rugby team. As a rookie, Sheridan and his squad won the club’s fourth consecutive OCAA gold medal and capped his season with the Humber rugby Rookie of the Year and Male Freshmen of the Year awards. Now Sheridan is the captain of the team in only his second year at Humber. Sheridan picked up rugby in grade nine and became the four-time Most Valuable Player at Humberview Secondary School. He also played with Rugby Ontario and was a provincial gold medalist at the U17 level. He continues to play club rugby for the Markham Irish of the Marshall Premiership league.

Sheridan is in first year of the Business Administration program where he plans on completing his Bachelor of Business and later on running his own company. Since arriving at Humber, Sheridan said he feels like he’s joined a big family that offers great support financially, emotionally and morally and feels at home in the Blue and Gold.

Kateryna Tepylo

Kateryna Tepylo’s past curling season has the essence of a Cinderella story. Her team’s fourth place finish in the OCAA Championships shouldn’t have earned the Hawks a berth at the national championships. But thanks to a last minute drop out the Hawks had their chance to prove their talent. Like all good Cinderella stories there is a happy ending. Tepylo and her squad went from fourth seed in Ontario to second best team in the country as CCAA National silver medalists. Her academics are equally as impressive. Tepylo is a perennial honour roll student and junior in the Bachelor of Creative Advertising program. She is also one of 25 W. Garfield Weston Scholars in all of Canada that recognizes students who are passionate about their field and committed to making a difference in their community and society.

Looking forward, Tepylo said she is working towards another trip to Nationals with the Hawks and representing the province in the Ontario Junior Curling Tour, where she has been competing since 14 years of age.

Katherine White

Katherine White has been an impactful member of the cross-country team for the past three seasons. As a rookie she was named a second team OCAA All-Star and two time All-Academic during her team’s OCAA gold and CCAA National bronze medal triumphs. In her sophomore year she contributed to her team’s provincial second place finish and national fifth seed.

White is a graduate of the Fitness and Health program and has bridged over to third year of the University of Guelph-Humber’s Bachelor of Applied Science in Kinesiology. Through these programs she hopes to work in the athletic therapy and clinical physiotherapy fields.

Running has been a passion of White’s since grade 10 and progressively cultivated her talent when she joined the University of Toronto’s Track Lab in grade 12. White said her career flourished at Humber thanks to her coaches teaching her about running strategies and developing her into a better racer. Through these stepping stones, White plans to continue running track and build her endurance for longer road races.

Darryn O’Malley

Ever since she was a young girl, Darryn O’Malley has dreamed of being a sports reporter.

Growing up, Darryn was not only an avid sports fan, but she was a dedicated athlete as well. From hockey to softball to soccer, it seems there isn’t a sport Darryn hasn’t played. Whether it was on a skating rink, hard court or grassy field, she loved to compete.

Even when she wasn’t on the playing field, Darryn still dedicated her time to sports as she was passionate about the journalism-aspect of athletics.

The only television she watched was sports highlights, and most of her reading material was sports-related. She even loved combing through statistics and numbers.

Darryn was a sports reporter for Humber College’s newspaper, Humber Et Cetera, where she covered everything from games to events to player profiles and features. She also served as the executive editor of SCRIBE Magazine, a student-run Toronto-based magazine. She recently completed an internship at The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, where she spent her time as a sports and news reporter, covering the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Argonauts.

Darryn is honoured to be the recipient of the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame George Gross Award for Journalism. She is incredibly grateful to those who nominated her for the award, and she is thankful for the many opportunities Humber College has given her.

Brenda Carachure

Brenda Carachure is an integral part of the OCAA bronze medalist women’s basketball team.

Born in Acapulco, Mexico, she’s been playing basketball since 16-years-old. Carachure said basketball helped her adapt to living in a new country when she moved to Canada in 2005. “It makes me so happy just playing the sport,” said Carachure. “And I always want to be good at what I do.”

Carachure has received a diploma in the crime scene investigations program and will be graduating from the Police Foundations program this year. Carachure said her career at Humber would not be the same without the wonderful people she’s met along the way.

“The people in Athletics are amazing, the coaches are mentors and getting to meet Doug Fox was a privilege,” said Carachure. “I don’t have a family here so they’ve become my family”.

Kelly Nyhof

Kelly Nyhof has an OCAA gold medal around her neck and her name in the record books. She was named OCAA volleyball Player of the Year, West Division scoring champion and First Team All-Star, OCAA Championship MVP and All-Star and a CCAA All-Canadian. Nyhof was ultimately named Humber’s Female Athlete of the Year and represented Team Canada at the Universiade Games in Kazan, Russia.

Nyhof said she appreciates the support Humber gives to make being a student-athlete possible. “There are so many resources readily available for us to resort to in order to stay on top of our academics as well as staying focused for our sports,” Nyhof said. She is a graduate of the child and youth program at Humber and is currently taking law firm profile-office administration for her fifth and final year.