UNews - Ryan Pottruff

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trevor.kenney — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:21:49 +0000

Congratulations to Drs. Paul Vasey and Martin Lalumiere (Psychology) on their successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada application. The workshop will be held May 31 to June 2.

Dafne Carrasco (New Media student) and friends organized the Help Rebuild Haiti T-shirt Fundraiser that featured original T-shirt designs by fellow students, faculty and alumni.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recently posted the successful Community-��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Research Alliances (CURA) program applications. U of L professor Dr. Claudia Malacrida (Sociology) is a co-applicant on the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta's, six-year, $1 million grant, titled Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada.

Dr. Janet Youngdahl (Music) was a soprano soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in Calgary at the Jack Singer Concert Hall on Mar. 27. The concert celebrated the 20th anniversary of Mount Royal's Kantori and also premiers a new work by Imant Raminsh, with the composer in attendance.

Adam Chorneyko of the Pronghorns men's hockey team was named Canada West rookie of the year after a season in which he led all freshmen with 16 goals and 35 points. Defenceman Ryan Pottruff and centre Dustin Moore were named to the Canada West First All-Star Team while goaltender Scott Bowles was named to the second team.

Dr. David Renter (Music) has been invited to be the composer-in-residence at this year's prestigious Stella Royce Music Camp, July 26-30 in Grand Rapids, Mich. He will be debuting a series of original solo piano compositions of varying difficulty for students aged 8-15.

Fourth-year point guard Jeff Price was named to the Canada West men's basketball Second All-Star Team after a stellar first season with the Pronghorns men's basketball program.

Nursing student Alexandra Tritten-Champoux recently received one of seven United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) scholarships awarded to students in their first year of nursing study. The winners needed to be related to a UNA member in good standing and complete an essay on How does the UNA impact nursing worklife?

Music faculty Dr. Janet Youngdahl, Dr. Sandra Stringer, Dr. Blaine Hendsbee and retired music professor Dr. George Evelyn were soloists with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra's presentation of Haydn's The Creation on Mar. 29.

Dr. Ed Jurkowski (Music) presented, Random Sounds or Organized Structure? What the Compositional Sketches tell us about Morton Feldman's Late Music, last month at the annual meeting of the Pacific-Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society.

Chorneyko top Canada West rookie

trevor.kenney — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:38:00 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns late charge for a Canada West men's hockey playoff spot did not go unnoticed by those selecting year-end individual awards. The Horns, who were the hottest team in the second half of the season, boasted one major award winner and three all-star selections as Canada West announced its year-end award winners on Thursday.

Leading the way for the Horns was Adam Chorneyko, who was voted the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta Hockey Alumni Trophy winner as the league's outstanding rookie.

Chorneyko led all freshmen in scoring in Canada West with 35 points, including 16 goals, which was also the fourth best offensive output in the conference. In 26 games, the former Lethbridge Hurricane had 12 multi-point contests, including his first CIS hat trick January 31 versus the UBC Thunderbirds.

Chorneyko was a key component in the Horns going 9-2-1 after Christmas, playing themselves back into post-season contention until the final weekend of the season. In addition to his offensive prowess, Chorneyko was also responsible in his own end of the ice, tying for the conference lead in plus/minus rating at +18

"Adam quickly stepped in and became our number one centre and top goal scorer," says Horns head coach Greg Gatto. "Adam was a threat at both ends of the ice as he finished in the top five scorers for points and goals, and was a Canada West leader in plus/minus."

Chorneyko wasn't the only Pronghorn to earn accolades. Defenceman Ryan Pottruff (third year) and forward Dustin Moore (third year) were each named to the Canada West First All-Star Team, while goaltender Scott Bowles (third year) earned second team all-star honours.

Campus Kudos

trevor.kenney — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:35:24 +0000

Campus Kudos

Lisa Doolittle (Theatre & Dramatic Arts), with Anne Flynn from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary, is presenting the paper "Assimilating and Accommodating: Bodies and Dancing, Canada's Choreography of Multicultural Nationhood in the 20th century" at the British Association of Canadian Studies international conference "Being, Becoming and Belonging: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Social Inclusion in Modern Canada" at Oxford ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ, UK, Mar. 28-30.

Mary-Anne McTrowe (Art) has received an Alberta Creative Development Initiative grant to produce work for a solo exhibition in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's contemporary space, the LAB. The exhibition opens in October 2009.

Richard Epp (Theatre & Dramatic Arts) appears in Theatre Calgary's production of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Mar. 3-22.

Jim Steacy (kinesiology student) and Heather Steacy (music student) brought home three gold medals from the Canada West track championship meet in Regina recently. Jim Steacy won both the men's weight throw and shot put, giving him eight career Canada West gold medals. Heather Steacy won her third consecutive Canada West women's weight throw gold medal. Both athletes were named top athletes of the meet and Jim Steacy was also named top male track athlete for the year.

Dr. Arlan Schultz (Music) has received a Community of Research Excellence Development Opportunity from the U of L Research Office to support his development of tools for electroacoustic composition in the form of audio spatialization software and unique audio-sample databases. Schultz recently returned from Paris, France where he was studying and designing audio spatialization algorithms and studying advanced MAX/MSP programming techniques at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in the Centre Georges Pompidou. During this spring/summer, he has been awarded a research residency and has been appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CIRCA) in La Jolla, California. He has also received a Canada Arts Council grant for the composition of two new works of interactive acoustic/computer music. One is a commission from New Works Calgary's "Rubbing Stone" Ensemble for soprano, chamber orchestra, real-time audio spatialization and computer processed audio, which will be premiered in 2010.

Ryan Pottruff (education student) and Dustin Moore (pre-management studies) of the Pronghorns men's hockey team, won silver medals while representing Canada at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China.

Deanna Oye (Music) performs a solo piano recital at Lakehead ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ on Mar. 17, as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations for Lakehead's Department of Music. She was a graduate of their B.Mus.(Honours) program during its first decade.

Trio Amaranth (Peter Visentin, violin; Tido Janssen, cello; and Deanna Oye, piano) performed at Convocation Hall at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta on Feb. 27.
Dana Inkster (New Media) has been invited to be a discussant in the "The Role of the Employer and Legal Implications For Foreign Workers" plenary, Mar. 19 at the 11th National Metropolis Conference in Calgary. She will speak about her 2007 documentary "24 Days In Brooks" as well as her current projects in development, "Los Invisibles" and "Ladies of the Saturday Night". In March, she also speaks on the Collaborative Research in Ethnicity, Social Care and Health program in Faculty of Nursing, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta, where she will use her film 24 Days in Brooks as a case study for the use of documentary film as a facilitation tool in intercultural exchange.

Peter Visentin (Music) presented "Violinist's Cool Move" to music majors at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta recently. The presentation explores his research with biomechanics researchers to gain insight into the art and science of playing the violin.

Lani Maestro (Art) is among 50 artists from around the world to participate in the Sharjah Biennial 9, this spring.

Ed Wasiak (Education/Music) was elected president of the Canadian Music Educators' Association (CMEA). CMEA provides leadership for music education in Canada and is also the national affiliate to the International Society for Music Education. Wasiak's term as president runs from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011.

Dr. Rolf Boon's (Music) composition "First Light" has been selected for publication in the Canadian National Conservatory of Music's Northern Lights Level 5 piano syllabus. Several of Rolf's works are also under consideration for publication for their Grade 6 and 7 piano repertoire.

Horns lose triple-overtime classic

trevor.kenney — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:17:04 +0000

It took 54 shots and 33 minutes and 46 seconds of overtime before Scott Bowles and the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns men's hockey team finally succumbed. The Horns dropped a 4-3, triple-overtime heartbreaker to ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of British Columbia Thunderbirds, Sunday night at Nicholas Sheran Arena, giving the T-Birds a 2-1 Canada West playoff series victory.

Bowles, a star all weekend, made numerous saves to keep his club in the hunt Sunday, none better than a sprawling stop with the paddle of his stick as time ticked down in the waning seconds of the second overtime frame. The stop, which took away an open net bid, extended the game and the Horns' season and prompted a standing ovation from another strong and boisterous Pronghorn crowd. The club, however, couldn't find a way to get a shot by T-Birds' netminder Francois Thuot and UBC eventually netted the winner on a point shot deflection that also rebounded off a Pronghorn defender and by Bowles in the third overtime period.

The triple-overtime classic was the second longest game in Canada West playoff history, falling just shy of the 39:16 of extra time played between ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Saskatchewan and ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta, Mar. 10, 2007. It was also a fitting end to a series that started with back-to-back overtime games Friday and Saturday nights. UBC won the opener on Friday with the Horns extending the series with a dramatic last-minute comeback and victory on Saturday.

On Sunday, Dustin Moore had a pair of goals and Ryan Pottruff added a single to go along with Bowles' 50-save performance in net. Thuot stopped 45 shots for the T-Birds, who have now won successive playoff series over the Pronghorns. The teams last met in the spring of 2007 when UBC again prevailed 2-1.

UBC advances to face ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Saskatchewan in the second round of playoffs this weekend. The other Canada West semifinal sees ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Regina visit ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta.

Silver lining to China trip

trevor.kenney — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:48:33 +0000

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns men's hockey players Ryan Pottruff and Dustin Moore captured silver medals for Canada as the 2009 Winter Universiade concluded in Harbin, China this past weekend.

Pottruff, a second-year defenceman from Woodstock, Ont., and Moore, a second-year forward out of Red Deer, were part of the Canada West all-star squad that was chosen to wear Canadian colours at the Universiade. The Canadian squad advanced to the gold medal game after sweeping through the round robin portion of the event with a perfect 4-0 record and then thumping Slovakia 8-1 in Friday's semifinal game.

In Saturday's final, Canada fell behind 2-1 to unbeaten Russia after 20 minutes. A scoreless second period was followed by Canada's tying goal early in the third period. Russia eventually earned the win with a pair of goals 46 seconds apart in the game's final three minutes.

Both Pottruff and Moore return to Lethbridge this week to rejoin their Pronghorn teammates as they prepare to host the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of British Columbia Thunderbirds in the first round of the Canada West playoffs. The best-of-three series is set for this weekend, Mar. 6-8 at Nicholas Sheran Arena. All three games of the series, if necessary, are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Moore leads Canada into semis

trevor.kenney — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:38:15 +0000

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns forward Dustin Moore had a pair of assists as Canada clinched a spot in the semifinal round of the 2009 Winter Universiade men's hockey tournament with a 7-2 victory over Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

Moore assisted on a pair of second period goals, including the game-winner, and posted a plus-two rating as Canada swept through the preliminary portion of the event with a perfect 4-0 record. Defenceman Ryan Pottruff, Moore's Pronghorn teammate, also was a plus-two for the Canadians, who will now wait for a semifinal opponent to be determined from the other pool.

The Pronghorns are representing Canada as part of the Canada West all-star squad that was elected to play in the bi-annual event. This year's games are being held in Harbin, China.

Canada, as the top seed out of Group A, will meet the second seed from Group B, in Saturday's semifinal round. Kazakhstan is the second qualifier out of Group A. The top two seeds in Group B will be decided Wednesday as Russia, Slovakia and the United States all have one game to play to determine order. The gold and bronze medal finals will be held Sunday.

Horns to face T-Birds in playoffs

trevor.kenney — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:41:27 +0000

The dates had already been set and now the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns men's hockey team knows who it will host in the first round of the Canada West playoffs.

UBC Thunderbirds will fly into town for the Mar. 6-8 best-of-three opening round series after they swept ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary Dinos this past weekend. The T-Birds opened the weekend out of the playoffs but went on the road to sweep the Dinos, not only clinching a post-season berth but leapfrogging ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Regina Cougars and grabbing the fifth seed.

The Pronghorns played what was essentially a tune-up series against top-seeded ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta Golden Bears. Both teams were minus players attending the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Games in China and both clubs had their playoff positions cemented entering weekend play. The Bears earned a sweep with a pair of one-goal victories (5-4 in a shootout on Friday and 2-1 Saturday night).

Now, the fourth-seeded Horns (14-13-1) face a T-Birds (11-14-3) squad that is not only on a roll but that owned the Pronghorns in the season series. UBC took the series 3-1, winning the last three games after the Horns won the opener 7-2 back in October.

The Canada West playoff series is Mar. 6-8 at Nicholas Sheran Arena with games at 7 p.m. all three nights.

Winter Universiade

Canada continued to roll at the 2009 Winter Universiade, running its record to 3-0 in men's ice hockey preliminaries with a pair of weekend victories.

Pronghorns defenceman Ryan Pottruff and forward Dustin Moore helped Canada to an 11-2 win over Great Britain and a 3-1 triumph over the Czech Republic. The club is back in action Tuesday when it meets Kazakhstan.

Horns host Golden Bears

trevor.kenney — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:29:12 +0000

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns will be playing for an opportunity to move up to third place in the Canada West standings this weekend but the heavy lifting was done last week.

The Horns men's hockey team clinched a post-season berth as well as a home playoff date in the first round when they split with ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary Dinos a week ago. Now, with no chance of dropping from their fourth-place standing, the Horns will look to sweep visiting Alberta Golden Bears to overtake idle Manitoba for third spot in the conference standings. Games are Friday and Saturday nights, 7 p.m. at Nicholas Sheran Arena.

The Horns (14-12-0) do not yet know whom they will host in the first round of playoffs, Mar. 6-8, but look to go into the post-season on a winning note. The Bears (20-4-2) have clinched top spot in the conference and, along with ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Saskatchewan, will have a bye in the first round of playoffs. Ranked second in the country, U of A has won three of the four previous meetings with the Pronghorns this season with all four games in Edmonton.

Universiade

Both the Pronghorns and Golden Bears will play this weekend's series shorthanded due to the Winter Universiade in Harbin, China. The Horns are without defenceman Ryan Pottruff and forward Dustin Moore, while the Bears have seven players on the team, including the conference's top goaltender, Aaron Sorochan, and leading scorer Chad Klassen.

Friday, Canada ripped host China 13-0 with Pottruff netting the game-winning goal just 4:24 into the first period. Moore also added a second period power play tally. Canada plays Great Britain Saturday as the preliminary round continues.

Swimming

The Horns swim team has five members representing the program at the CIS Championship meet in Vancouver this weekend. Having qualified a third male swimmer last weekend, the Horns were able to add a men's relay team to the championships and will have four men and one female swimmer compete in the championship event.

With only five swimmers at the meet, it is unrealistic for the Horns to compete for the team titles, but with all five swimmers eligible to return next season, they will gain a great deal of experience.

Pottruff, Ballendine earn awards

trevor.kenney — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:16:57 +0000

Ryan Pottruff took care of a little local business before jetting off to China this week.

Pottruff, a second-year defenceman out of Woodstock, Ont., was named Pronghorn Male Athlete of the Week after guiding the Horns men's hockey team to a weekend split with ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary Dinos. His four-point effort, including a power play goal and three assists, was the offensive spark in Saturday's 5-2 victory that clinched a Canada West playoff spot for the Pronghorns.

On the season, Pottruff leads all Canada West defencemen in scoring with five goals and 15 assists. Pottruff, along with Horns' forward Dustin Moore, is now off to Harbin, China, as the duo will represent Canada at the World ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Games. The pair will miss this weekend's final two games of the Canada West regular season (Friday and Saturday home tilts against ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta) but will return for the start of playoffs, Mar. 6.

The Pronghorn Female Athlete of the Week is Horns' hockey forward Shelby Ballendine. The second-year, Quesnel, B.C. native finished off the Canada West season with a pair of excellent games. In the Horns' weekend split with the UBC Thunderbirds, Ballendine scored four times and added two assists.

Saturday afternoon, Ballendine scored once and added an assist in the Horns' 6-4 loss to the T-Birds. In her final game of the season, Ballendine recorded her first career hat trick in a 7-3 win over the T-Birds.

Ballendine led the Horns in scoring this season with 12 goals and five assists.

Horn men clinch playoff berth

trevor.kenney — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:30:56 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Pronghorns men's hockey team is headed back to the Canada West playoffs and they'll do so on home ice, beginning Mar. 6.

The Horns clinched not only a playoff spot but also a home playoff series this past weekend when they picked up a split with ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary Dinos. After a lackluster 6-2 loss Friday night at Nicholas Sheran Arena, the Horns rebounded with a solid 5-2 victory over the Dinos on Saturday night. Four power play goals, including a pair from defenceman Ryan Pottruff, paved the way for the Horns, who improved to 14-12-0 on the season.

The U of L, now fourth in the Canada West standings, still has a shot at third place but would need a weekend sweep of ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta Golden Bears to catch the idle ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Manitoba Bisons. At worst, the Horns will finish fourth in the conference and host a playoff series against either Regina, UBC or Calgary. All three of those teams are still battling for the fifth and sixth playoff positions (although Regina has at least clinched one of those spots).

The Horns last made the playoffs in 2006-07 when they hosted UBC Thunderbirds and lost a three-game series 2-1. The club concludes its Canada West regular season this weekend, also at home, when the first place Golden Bears (20-4-2) come calling for games Friday and Saturday nights, 7 p.m., at Nicholas Sheran.

Women's Hockey

The Pronghorns will not be suiting up for playoff action this spring but a weekend split, capped by Sunday's 7-3 rout, was a good way to cap the 2008-09 Canada West regular season.

The Horns got three goals from Shelby Ballendine and a pair from Brittany Kaye to blitz the playoff-bound UBC T-Birds 7-3. The win followed a 6-4 loss on Saturday that saw the Horns nearly erase a 5-1 first period deficit.

U of L finished the season 4-19-1 and graduated a pair of players, Lindsay Peters and Johanna Myers.

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