LANGLEY, British Columbia –Trinity Western fifth-year setter Anselm Rein (Erfurt, Germany) is the Spartan Male Athlete of the Week after helping the Spartans to improve to 5-0 in preseason play with a 4-0 record in their four-game tour of OUA teams in Ontario.
 
The biology student led the Spartans to wins over Windsor. 3-1, 3-1, Guelph 3-0, and Waterloo 3-1, and finished the tour by leading the team to a .415 hitting efficiency, with 10 service aces.
 
Rein and the Spartans will play in the Blue Team Cup Oct. 2-4, with games against UBC (Oct. 2 at the Thunderbirds' War Memorial Gym), UBC Okanagan (Oct. 3 at the Langley Events Centre), and Mount Royal (Oct. 4 at the LEC). 
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 11 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as in the NAIA in track and field and cross country and 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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