Three Electric City Football Club Players Named As League-1 Ontario All-Stars

It was an excellent first year for Electric City Football Club’s (ECFC) Mykaela Volpe, Zach Ellis-Hayden and Quillian Roberts as they were named League1 Ontario 2022 All-Stars announced on Friday.

Photo courtesy of Electric City Football Club and David Pickering.

Volpe was named second-team all-star as she played 14 games as ECFC’s goalkeeper allowing 16 goals with a 1.14 goals against average that included five shutouts.

She also was runner-up to League1 Ontario’s Goalkeeper of the Year to FC London’s Jadyn Steinhauer.

In 2021, The Kitchener-born goalkeeper had an 8-0-1 record with nine shutouts allowing only one goal to Western University on a penalty kick.

Photo courtesy of Electric City Football Club and David Pickering.

ECFC defender Zach Ellis-Hayden earned third-team all-star honours logging three assists in 16 games.

Ellis-Hayden was one of ECFC’s inaugural signings back on Feb. 10 alongside Sona Makulova. The Kitchener-born defender spent the last six seasons playing professionally in the USL Championship prior to ECFC.

Photo by David Tuan Bui.

Roberts as his teammate Ellis-Hayden earned third-team all-star honours playing 17 games, allowing 19 goals and seven shutouts for the season.

He was named a runner-up for League1 Ontario’s men’s Goalkeeper of the Year, losing out to Praveen Ahilan of Alliance United. Ali Ghazanfari-Moghaddan of the North Toronto Nitros was also named as a runner-up.

Just like being ECFC’s first goalkeeper signing, Roberts was one of the first in Hamilton’s Forge FC’s history. Roberts had eight Canadian Premier League starts with nine goals against and four shutouts.

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