Ivan Birungi played for the Ottawa-Cumberland Panthers in his OVFL days, and now stars as the main reciever for the Acadia Axemen in the Atlantic University Football Conference.A Pickering, Ontario native, Birungi, the 6ft 4", 226 pound junior, led the Atlantic conference with 38 catches (9th CIS), 792 receiving yards (4th CIS) and 10 touchdown receptions (2nd CIS). Birungi has 22 TD catches in three seasons with the Axemen.
Thats three shy of the AUFC career record set by Saint Mary’s Matt Nealon from 1988-90.
That record will be broken next season, no doubt, however Birungi also set a new Acadia Football record for TD receptions in a season with 11, and career total TD receptions with 22.
Not only does that break the Acadia record, it also sits him atop the #4 position in AUFC history.
Birungi was named to the CIS All-Canadian first team along with Western star Andy Fantuz, and was named AUFC Most Valuable Player. Blaine Scatcherd was the last Axemen to be named league MVP in 1999 and Acadia's Aubrey Cummings is the last receiver to win the award.
Quite an accomplishment. Congratulations.
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