(HALIFAX, N.S.) These twins had identical weekends—winning the 2022 Subway AUS Basketball Championships and being dubbed tournament all-stars and championship MVPS—and for that, Acadia's Jayda Veinot and her brother Dalhousie's Keevan Veinot are your Subway AUS Athletes of the week for the week ending March 20, 2022.
FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Name: Jayda Veinot
University: Acadia University
Sport: Women’s basketball
Position: Wing
Hometown: Port Williams, Nova Scotia
Year of eligibility: Third
Academic program: Bachelor of Science
Jayda Veinot of the Acadia Axewomen women’s basketball team has been named the Subway Atlantic University Sport female athlete of the week for the week ending March 20, 2022.
A wing from Port Williams, Nova Scotia, this weekend Veinot’s outstanding play led the Axewomen to capture their third AUS championship in the last five years.
In Thursday’s 81-73 quarterfinal win over the STFX X-Women, Veinot showed fans why she was named the 2021-22 AUS women’s basketball most valuable player earlier in the week, adding 30 points, four assists and two rebounds to the Axewomen’s stats sheet. On Saturday, she helped push her team to their fifth consecutive AUS final by scoring 11 points alongside three rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks in the Axewomen’s 86-82 win over Saint Mary’s.
In the championship final, Veinot was in fine form again, posting 34 points, nine rebounds and two steals in the Axewomen’s 71-65 win over the Cape Breton Capers. She was clutch to an Axewomen come back with 23 of those points coming in the second half of the game when they erased a 14-point half-time deficit to their fellow finalists.
Veinot was named the Subway player of the championship game, a tournament all-star and the championship MVP.
MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Name: Keevan Veinot
University: Dalhousie University
Sport: Men’s basketball
Position: Guard
Hometown: Port Williams, Nova Scotia
Year of eligibility: Fourth
Academic program: Bachelor of Commerce
Keevan Veinot of the Dalhousie Tigers men’s basketball team has been named the Subway Atlantic University Sport male athlete of the week for the week ending March 20, 2022.
A fourth-year guard from Port Williams, Nova Scotia, Veinot averaged 23.3 points per game throughout the 2022 Subway AUS Basketball Championship weekend, leading the Tigers to their third consecutive AUS title.
In Thursday’s quarter-final action, he was named the Subway Player of the Game after contributing 23 points, seven rebounds and four assists to the Tigers’ 86-69 win over the Acadia Axemen. He followed that performance with another player of the game nod in Saturday’s semifinal battle with the Memorial Sea-Hawks. Veinot netted 27 points and had six rebounds, two assists and a steal in the 87-85 Dalhousie victory.
On championship Sunday, he had 19 points, nine assists, six rebounds and two steals in the Tigers 84-78 win over the UPEI Panthers. After the game, Veinot was named both a tournament all-star and the championship MVP. Earlier in the week, he was also named a 2021-22 AUS first team all-star.