Defending champs make selections (VIDEO)

 

Football Quebec’s Program of Excellence unveil 53 players who move on to the next step to be part of Team Quebec

MONTREAL  – After the conclusion of the selection camp that was held last weekend at the Letendre College in Laval, head coach Brad Collinson (Laval Rouge et Or) and assistant team coaches from six academic programs from the RSEQ circuit have selected 53 players who will go on to the next step with the goal of  becoming part of the provincial team that will represent Quebec at the 2013 Football Canada Cup in Moncton, New Brunsiwck from July 15-21, 2013.

The selection process began in March, when Team Quebec coaches evaluated more than 400 players at three Adidas evaluation camps. At the previous selection camp on June 1 and 2, over 100 of the best players from the province converged and were evaluated.  At the camp, athletes are subjected to a second round of testing from Eric Joly, physical trainer of Football Quebec’s Program of Excellence.

“Our team of coaches had a difficult choice to make, but we are very pleased with our final selection and the work of all these young players, despite the heat,” said head coach Brad Collinson, who himself was part of Team Quebec in 1995, prior to beginning his coaching career.  “We have a very high level of calibre and talent from our young athletes which impresses me every year and is very promising for the future of football in Quebec.”

Of the 105 athletes present, 54 players (the name of a 54th player will be announced by 24 June) are now invited to attend training camp with Team Quebec to be held from July 5 to 13 2013 at Fort St-Jean Campus, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Subsequently, 14 of the players will be cut while the other 40 players will travel to Moncton from July 15 to 21, to defend the two consecutive national titles won by Team Quebec in 2011 and 2012 and compete in the Football Canada Cup tournament, which has seven teams participating this year.

 

 

TEAM QUEBEC 2013 – TOP 53
Location	Name	First name	Football Program	Hometown
DB	Angers-Gauthier	Xavier	Marauders College Laval	Laval
DB	Auclair	Adam	Dragons Beauce-Etchemin	Notre-Dame-des Pins
DB	Bouchard	Christophe	Arsenal St. Louis Academy	St. Bernard
DB	Dupuis	Nicola	Urban Cité des Jeunes	Vaudreuil-Dorion
DB	Fitzgerald	Zack	Falcons Dorval Jean XXIII	Pierrefonds
DB	Gilbert	Xavier	Owls Triolet	Sherbrooke
DB	Marcellus	Jean-Gardy	Wolves Curé-Antoine-Labelle	Laval
DB	Mongeau	Antoine	Wolves Curé-Antoine-Labelle	Laval
DB	Pettersen	William	Séminaire St-François Blizzard	Quebec
DB	Plourde-Hector	Nicholas Rohan	Lasalle Warriors	Saint-Constant
DL	Aubin-Lavoie	Simon	Aigles Collège Jean-Eudes	Montreal
DL	Benhalli	Ayoub	Golden eagles Dalbé-Viau	Montreal
DL	Bergeron	Felix	Centurions Two Mountains	St-Félicien
DL	Dube	Jeoffrey	Mustangs Dominique-Racine	Chicoutimi
DL	Gagnon	Alexandre	Wolverines Seminar Marist Fathers	Quebec
DL	Harding	Griffin	Phoenix Nicolas-Gatineau	Gatineau
DL	Maranda-Bizeau	Samuel	Condors College St-Jean-Eudes	Quebec
DL	Seinet-Spaulding	Andrew	St-Laurent Spartans	Montreal
LB	Archambault	Philippe	Aigles Collège Jean-Eudes	Montreal
LB	Brodrique	Samuel	Wolves Curé-Antoine-Labelle	Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-lac
LB	Desfossés-Simard	Bruno Philip	Dragons of St-Jean-Vianney	Montreal
LB	Forbes Mombleau	Cedric	Centurions Two Mountains	Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-lac
LB	Goudreau	Philippe	Wolves Curé-Antoine-Labelle	Laval
LB	Harelimana	Kean	Wolves Curé-Antoine-Labelle	Laval
LB	Makonzo	Enock	Golden eagles Dalbé-Viau	Lachine
LB	Rossi	Samuel	Wildcats Laurentides-Lanaudière	Blainville
LB	Veilleux	Jacob	Condors College St-Jean-Eudes	Quebec
OL	Constantin	Damien	Patriotes St-Stanislas	St Jerome
OL	Davis	Patrick	Phoenix Nicolas-Gatineau	Gatineau
OL	Jack Kurdyla	Tomas	Lasalle Warriors	Montreal
OL	Labbe-Desmeules	Frederick	Condors College St-Jean-Eudes	Quebec
OL	Leblanc	Julien	Grizzlies Montmagny	St-Pierre River South
OL	Lefebvre	Samuel	Arsenal St. Louis Academy	St-Lambert de Lauzon
OL	Marin	Antoine	Selects Paul-Hubert	Rimouski
OL	Philogène	Brendon	Gladiators Georges-Vanier	Laval
OL	Sevigny	David	Wolves Curé-Antoine-Labelle	Laval
QB	Bouffard	Maxime	Owls Triolet	Sherbrooke

With files from Christine Manzo, Football Quebec