Brothers Joel and Mikel Côté, members of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Rams badminton team in Truro, may be rookies but have rack(et)’d up an incredible first season on the court.

Â鶹´«Ã½ women’s hockey goaltender Grace Beer helped lead Team Canada to a second-place finish at the FISU World University Games in Torino this winter, a surreal experience she says she’ll cherish forever.

To earn this coveted award, student-athletes had to maintain at least a 3.50 grade point average over the course of the 2023-24 academic year while competitive in a varsity sport.