Christine Sinclair was once again named Canada's female footballer of the year.
It's a predictable choice, but it's also the correct one. No player comes close to Sinclair's skill and importance in the game. Within context, she is the most successful soccer player this country has ever produced (unless you can tell me what Canadian man was ever in the top 10 in the world) and, outside of hockey, probably the best female athlete competing in a team sport this country has ever seen.
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An argument can be made that she is the most successful non-hockey team sport athlete, period. Steve Nash would be in the discussion, Fergie Jenkins and a bunch of old school CFLers as well (the CFL was every bit as good as the NFL in the black and white era).
Since 2002 Sinclair has scored 254 goals in total for her college, pro and national team. If a soccer player is ever going to win the Lou Marsh award, it will likely be her. Giving the player of the year award to any other player right now would be tokenism. I'm sure the other women would agree.
Sinclair is women's football in this country right now. So, yes, the award is predictable and boring, but also well deserved.