Athlete Awards

Athletes of the Week

Kaden Schmidt

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/3/2025
  • Sport
    Men's Volleyball
  • Bio
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LANGLEY, British Columbia—Trinity Western third-year outside Kaden Schmidt (Mississauga, Ont.) has been named the Spartan Male Athlete of the Week after recording a career-best in kills in the Spartans' best-of-three quarterfinal series loss to the Saskatchewan Huskies this past weekend in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
 
The business student finished with 61 kills, 12 digs, nine blocks, and seven aces in the three-match series. In Thursday’s 3-2 win, Schmidt had a career-best 23 kills, with four digs, two aces, and three blocks. Then in Friday’s 3-2 loss, Schmidt had 21 kills, six digs, three blocks, and two aces. And finished the weekend with 17 kills, five digs, three blocks, and three aces in the Spartans' 3-0 loss to the Huskies.
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby and women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 14 U SPORTS team championships and 33 Canada West team championships.

About Trinity Western University
Recognized for quality, TWU has received seven consecutive A+ rankings for Quality of Teaching and Learning, holds three Canada Research Chairs, and wins national championships in U SPORTS. More importantly, lives are changed at TWU through its whole-person, Christ-centred approach to education. With a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree-completion programs, TWU equips leaders of character and competence to make a positive impact in the lives of others. 

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Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
2/10/2020 Grace Konrad Women's Track and Field
2/10/2020 Jack Nadelhoffer Men's Basketball
2/3/2020 Dora Komlodi Women's Volleyball
2/3/2020 Giovanni Hernandez Men's Track and Field
1/27/2020 Hilary Howe Women's Volleyball
1/27/2020 Eric Loeppky Men's Volleyball
1/21/2020 Nicole Fransson Women's Basketball
1/21/2020 Praise Olatoke Men's Track and Field
1/6/2020 Kade Vilio Men's Hockey
1/6/2020 Hilary Howe Women's Volleyball
12/3/2019 Lana Shypit Women's Basketball
12/3/2019 Ja'Qualyn Gilbreath Men's Basketball
11/26/2019 Nicole Fransson Women's Basketball
11/26/2019 Ethan Kelt Men's Rugby
11/19/2019 Jackson Howe Men's Volleyball
11/19/2019 Hilary Howe Women's Volleyball
11/11/2019 Joshua Bruce Men's Hockey
11/11/2019 Joanna Williams Women's Cross Country
11/11/2019 Logan Casavant Men's Hockey
11/5/2019 Jesse Elser Men's Volleyball
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