By Earl Zukerman, McGill
Alexander Duhault, McGill University
MONTREAL - Calgary native Alexander Duhault, an 18-year-old civil engineering freshmen with the McGill Redmen, has been named rookie of the year in men's cross-country running by the Quebec Student Sports Federation, which announced the conference major trophy winners and all-stars, Tuesday.
The only other honoree from the Redmen was Graydon Snider, a 26-year-old chemistry senior from Montreal, who earned all-conference status.
Sherbrooke's James Poulin-Cadovius, a native Montrealer, was announced as the conference athlete of the year, while teammate Alex Genest of Lac-aux-Sables, Que., was voted student-athlete of the year and Vincent Paquet of the conference champion Vert & Or, merited coach-of-the-year honours.
Joining Snider on the all-star team were four teammates from Sherbrooke -- Poulin-Cadovius, Genest, Ferdinand Buzingo, from the Republic of Burundi, and Simon-Pierre Landry of Ottawa, plus Laval runners Samuel Blanchette and Philippe Sylvestre of Inverness, Que.
2008 QSSF MEN'S CROSS-COUNTRY ALL-STARS & MAJOR AWARD WINNERS
- Sherbrooke - James Poulin-Cadovius, Physical Education, 4th yr., 23, Montreal, Que.
- Sherbrooke - Ferdinand Buzingo, Physical Education, 3rd yr., 36, Bujumbura, Burundi
- Sherbrooke - Alex Genest, Kinesiology, 3rd, 22, Lac-aux-Sables, Que.
- McGill - Graydon Snider, Chemistry, 4th yr., 26, Montreal, Que.
- Laval - Samuel Blanchette, Physiotherapy, 2nd yr, 21, Trois-Rivières, Que.
- Sherbrooke - Simon-Pierre Landry, PhD-Medicine, 4th yr., 22, Ottawa, Ont.
- Laval - Philippe Sylvestre, Agriculture, 5th yr., 26, Inverness, Que.
Sherbrooke - James Poulin-Cadovius, Physical Education, 4th yr., 23, Montreal, Que.
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
McGill - Alexander Duhault, Civil Engineering, 1st yr., 18, Calgary, Alta.
COACH OF THE YEAR
Sherbrooke - Vincent Paquet
STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Sherbrooke - Alex Genest, Kinesiology, 3rd, 22, Lac-aux-Sables, Que.
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SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
McGill Athletics 7 Recreation
(514) 398-7012 (tel.)