Mcgill honours sports stars
Duvernay-Tardif named top male athlete, while Clement-Heydra is top woman
It has been a good year for McGill University football player Laurent Duvernay-Tardif.
The 23-year-old offensive lineman is the top-rated prospect for this year’s Canadian Football League draft and last week the 6-foot-5, 298-pounder impressed scouts from the CFL and the National Football League during a pro-day workout that included him bench-pressing 225 pounds 34 times.
And, on Wednesday night, Duvernay-Tardif was named McGill’s male athlete of the year at the university’s 37th annual varsity sports awards gala. Duvernay-Tardif, a fourth-year student from St.-Hilaire in his third year of medical school, also won the Stuart Forbes Trophy as the male student-athlete who brought the most credit to the university through his athletic achievements.
Katia Clement-Heydra, a forward from St.-Bruno-de-Montarville and a member of the national champion Martlets hockey team, was named the female athlete of the year. The hockey Martlets, who won their fourth Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship in seven years, received the Martlet Foundation Trophy as the varsity team of the year.
Hockey’s Ryan McKiernan, a defenceman from White Plains, N.Y., and basketball’s Hélène Bibeau of St.-Bruno took home the Richard Pound and Muriel Roscoe trophies awarded to graduating athletes for proficiency and leadership in athletics.