CEGEP defensive back joins RSEQ team’s 2016 class.
McGill Redmen is continuing their success in the recruitment drive this summer.
Olivier Gilbert-Couture is the newest Redmen.Ā The 6ā3, 190 pound defensive back from Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec will join the team for the 2016 RSEQ season.
āMcGill offers me the opportunity to study in English in my field ( collegial/university sports teacher),ā explained Gilbert-Couture of his decision. āBeing fully bilingual and playing with a university football program, McGill is a wonderful football set up and I believe that McGill will be competitive in the future!ā
This fall, Gilbert-Couture will complete his final season with CEGEP Division 1 team, Campus Notre Dame de Foy (CNDF).Ā Not only is he a defensive back, but he plays on special teams.Ā His testing results are as follows:Ā 4.43 second 40yard and 4.09 T-test.
Previous to CNDF, the defensive back suited up RSEQ Juvenile Division 2ās Polyvalente Ancienne-Lorette Athletiques under the guidance and instruction or former Laval and BC Lions player Bernard Gravel.
āI would like to tanks Coach [Marc-Andre] Dion, Coach [Sebastien] Levesque, Coach Coulombe and Coach Masson for giving me their time and teaching me football,ā expressed Gilbert-Couture.Ā āI would like to thanks my parents for supporting me inside during my football career all these years!ā
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