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With their 2025-26 season in the books, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies celebrated the program’s top student athletes on Wednesday night at their annual “Major 7” awards night.
Huskies women’s basketball star Gage Grassick and football linebacker Seth Hundeby were the big winners on Wednesday, taking home the program’s awards as the female and male athletes of the year.
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Grassick, who is leaving the Huskies as one of the program’s all-time greats, is fresh off winning her second consecutive U Sports national championship in Quebec City last month.
In addition to earning the Mary Ethel Cartwright Trophy for the second year in a row, Grassick was named Canada West women’s basketball player of the year after ranking in the top 10 in the conference in assists, three-point shots, steals, field goals, points per game and defensive rebounding. She also was named U Sports’ women’s basketball athlete of the year in 2024-25.
It wasn’t the only award of the night for Grassick, who also captured the Valerie Girsberger Trophy as the Huskies’ top all-around female athlete.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies linebacker Seth Hundeby celebrating a sack in the 2025 Vanier Cup in Regina against the University of Montreal Carabins on Nov. 22, 2025. (Electric Umbrella/Huskie Athletics)
Hundeby captained the Huskies football team to Hardy Cup and Mitchell Bowl titles, and finished one win shy of a Vanier Cup championship.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ draft pick led Canada West in tackles for a loss in 2025, while also causing five turnovers to win the U Sports President’s Trophy as the top defensive player in the nation, along with his E. Kent Phillips Trophy as the Huskies’ male athlete of the year.
Hundeby’s teammate Ryker Frank, meanwhile, won the Rusty MacDonald Cup as the Huskies’ top all-around male athlete, also wrapping up his five-year career with the program.
Frank set the Huskies’ all-time career rushing touchdowns record this past season. The running back also is a four-time U Sports academic All-Canadian, and won the 2024 Russ Jackson Award as the U Sports athlete combining academic excellence, athletic achievement and community leadership.
Huskies women’s basketball head coach Lisa Thomaidis took home the Colb McEown Trophy as the program’s coach of the year in 2025-26 after leading the Huskies to capture their second consecutive ‘Bronze Baby’ trophy at nationals.
Overseeing a Huskies team which completed a perfect 20-0 regular season and rode a 51-game win streak dating back to 2024, Thomaidis was also named U Sports women’s basketball coach of the year for the fourth time in her career.
Huskies men’s hockey forward Conner Roulette and women’s track-and-field standout Hailee Woodhouse were recognized with the Howard Nixon and Pat Lawson Trophies as the Huskies’ male and female rookies of the year.
Roulette, who led the Huskies in scoring with 22 goals and 49 points en route to the team’s second straight Canada West championship, was also named U Sports and Canada West men’s hockey rookie of the year.
On the track, Woodhouse put together one of the best debut seasons in recent memory for the Huskies, capturing two medals in relay events at U Sports national championships to go along with a pair of gold medals at Canada West championships in women’s 300m and 4x200m relays.
The Dr. Walter Hader Trophy for student trainer of the year went to Jared Wassil for his work with the Huskies’ cross country and track-and-field teams.
