Nicole Mitchell has scored her first career goal for the Louisville Cardinals women’s soccer team.
Mitchell, a Bishop Macdonell grad, tallied in the 69th minute of a 4-0 Louisville win over the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in a recent NCAA Division I game.
A few weeks earlier, the midfielder and the Cardinals opened their season with a game against the Butler Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs include Olivia Colosimo, who was a teammate of Mitchell’s at Bishop Macdonell. Colosimo, of Thunder Bay, lived with Mitchell and her family for her time in Guelph.
Louisville won the match 2-0.
Mitchell has started all six games for the team this season and Colosimo has started all seven for Butler. Both are juniors for their respective teams.
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Alan Gould is back in the game.
The former executive director at Guelph Soccer is these days the executive director of the Toronto Soccer Association. Gould got the gig a few months ago.
He was executive director at Guelph Soccer for more than four years before he stepped down late last year.
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This season’s Nipissing Lakers women’s soccer team includes two rookies from Guelph.
Goalkeeper Kelly Dunk and midfielder Mallory Archer are part of the Lakers squad. Dunk and Archer were District 10 soccer teammates on the John F. Ross Royals.
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John Rush of the Guelph Gryphons has been named OUA football defensive player of the week.
The middle linebacker from Niagara Falls, Ont., had nine tackles, eight of them solo,  as Guelph beat No. 7-ranked Windsor 28-9 on the road Saturday.
The Gryphons (1-1) play their home opener Saturday against Toronto (1-1) at 1 p.m.
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Waterloo Warriors receiver Nick Anapolsky, of Guelph, not only caught a touchdown pass on Saturday, but threw one too.
Anapolsky, a Guelph CVI grad, received a lateral pass and found fellow receiver Paul Cecile with a 24-yard TD strike early in Waterloo’s 68-21 loss to McMaster.
Later in the game, he made an 18-yard catch for a TD of his own.