CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – On Wednesday night (Oct. 29) at the 2025 U SPORTS Field Hockey All-Canadian Awards, fifth-year standout midfielder Abby Warriner for the second consecutive year was named U SPORTS Player of the Year and was named an All-Canadian for a fourth time in her illustrious career as a Gryphon.
 
Abby Warriner for the second consecutive season takes home the Liz Hoffman Award as the most outstanding player of the year. Warriner becomes the first Gryphon to accomplish this feat since Brienne Stairs did it in 2009 and 2010. Warriner shares the award with Victoria's Libby Hogg as co-winners of the Liz Hoffman Award. The biomedical engineering major added a goal scoring element to her game this season, scoring 7 times in 8 games played, leading the team in goals, and was tied for 2^nd in OUA. Warriner's seven goals was a career-high in a season for the standout midfielder. The Newmarket, ON native is the anchor in the Guelph midfield where her exceptional ball handling ability allows her team to transition from defence to attack. Warriner is the captain of the Gryphons field hockey team and helped lead them to a 7-1-2 regular record and a 4^th place finish at the OUA Field Hockey Championships. Warriner was also named a U SPORTS All-Canadian for the fourth time in Gryphon career, becoming the first Gryphon since Krissy Wishart (2006-2009) to accomplish this feat.
 

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2025 U SPORTS Field Hockey Major Award Winners
 
Player of the Year (Liz Hoffman Award): Abby Warriner, Guelph Gryphons & Libby Hogg, UVic Vikes
Rookie of the Year (Joyce Slip Award): Laurien Bruijning, UBC Thunderbirds
Outstanding Contributor (Gail Wilson Award): Avery Berry, McGill Martlets
Coach of the Year (Marina Van der Merwe Award): Lacey MacLauchlan, UPEI Panthers
Umpire of the Year: Denise Pelletier, OUA
 
 
2025 U SPORTS Field Hockey All-Canadians
 
Kayla Batchilder, UPEI Panthers
Laurien Bruijning, UBC Thunderbirds
Maeve Connorton, UVic Vikes
Molly Doyle, Dalhousie Tigers
Meagan Hobson, Waterloo Warriors
Libby Hogg, UVic Vikes
Sanne Meijer vanLoendersloot, Dalhousie Tigers
Mikayla Sterling, UBC Thunderbirds
Maggie Mullins, Toronto Varsity Blues
Kathryn Carlow, York Lions
Abby Warriner, Guelph Gryphons