McGill runner Duhault named rookie of the yea

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.

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
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.