UPEI’s Jenna Mae Ellsworth named AUS Female Athlete of the Year
The following was originally released by Atlantic University Sport (AUS).
Charlottetown, PEI (May 6, 2020)—UPEI Panthers women's basketball player Jenna Mae Ellsworth has been named the AUS Female Athlete of the Year.
Ellsworth will now become the Atlantic conference nominee for the Lieutenant Governor Athletic Awards as U SPORTS Female Athlete of the Year award—the Jim Thompson Trophy. The winner will be announced on June 25.
Ellsworth, a five-foot-10 guard with the U SPORTS bronze medallist UPEI Panthers, was the recipient of the 2019-20 Nann Copp Award as U SPORTS Player of the Year.
Along with that honour, she became the final member of the Top 100Players of the Century, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of U SPORTS women's basketball.
She is just the third Atlantic conference player to ever be honoured as the national MVP in women's basketball.
She was also named a U SPORTS first team all-Canadian.
At the conference level, Ellsworth was honoured as the Atlantic University Sport Most Valuable Player and the AUS Defensive Player of the Year.
She was also named to the AUS first team all-star squad.
She is a three-time AUS second team all-star, and she also earned Rookie of the Year nods and a place on the AUS all-rookie team in her inaugural season with the Panthers in 2016-17.
A fourth-year science student from Charlottetown, P.E.I., Ellsworth led the Panthers with 20.5 points per game in the regular season. She averaged 5.9 rebounds, 3.2 assists, and 2.1 steals per game.
UPEI finished in first place in the regular season standings with a 17–3 record.
With 1,231 career points scored in four seasons, Ellsworth sits tied for second in UPEI school history with a year of eligibility remaining.
At the 2020 Subway AUS Women’s Basketball Championship, Ellsworth was named Subway Player of the Game in UPEI’s semi-final win and then a tournament all-star as the Panthers earned the program’s first conference title since 1998.
UPEI entered the U SPORTS championship seeded sixth. Ellsworth earned Player of the Game honours in the national quarterfinals as the Panthers upset the No. 3-seeded Ryerson Rams. She was named UPEI’s Player of the Game in the national semifinals as the Panthers fell to Brock.
She then led her team to U SPORTS bronze with a game-high of 24 points to go along with nine rebounds in the 57–50 win over Laval and was named a championship all-star.
Go Panthers Go!
