Queen’s OT Matthew O’Donnell and Calgary SB Anthony Parker are the CIS football players selected to suit up in the 86th East-West Shrine Game on January 22, 2011 in Orlando.
Parker is the top skill position player on the list and the highest ranked CIS product. The fourth-year player from Okotoks, Alta., helped the Dinos reach their second straight Vanier Cup.
Etienne joined the Huskies as a kicker out of Regina’s Luther College in 2007. He convinced coaches to let him play receiver, but had just two career catches prior to this season.
Offensive lineman Philip Blake remains on top of the list of the Top 15 prospects for the 2011 CFL Canadian Draft made public today by the league’s CFL Scouting Bureau.
Université Laval’s Glen Constantin is the 2010 coach of the year in Canadian Interuniversity Sport football. Constantin received the Frank Tindall trophy on Friday.
Sebastien Levesque set the tone early with a 41-yard touchdown run as the Laval Rouge et Or thrilled their home crowd Saturday with a 29-2 victory over the Calgary Dinos to claim the Vanier Cup.
Fourth-year University of Ottawa quarterback Brad Sinopoli was named the Canadian Interuniversity Sport football player of the year, on Thursday night.
For the third straight year, the Calgary Dinos will end their season at Quebec City’s PEPS Stadium on the campus of Université Laval, but they are hoping for a victory this time.
The 46th Desjardins Vanier Cup festivities officially kicked off on Wednesday morning with the traditional Meet the Teams media conference at Loews Le Concorde Hotel in downtown Quebec City.
Calgary RB Steven Lumbala and a pair of Laval Rouge et Or, CB Olivier Turcotte-Létourneau and K Christopher Milo, are the CIS football players of the week for the period ending Nov. 20, 2010.
The Calgary Dinos will be in familiar territory this week when they travel to Quebec City to battle the hometown Laval Rouge et Or in the 46th Desjardins Vanier Cup.
The Laval Rouge et Or edged past the Western Mustangs 13-11 in the Uteck Bowl on Saturday afternoon before a raucous crowd of 11,547 at PEPS Stadium in Quebec City.
Nathan Coehoorn caught a pair of touchdown passes from QB Eric Glavic on Saturday as the fifth-ranked Dinos thumped the No. 9 Saint Mary’s Huskies 35-8 in the Mitchell Bowl.
Top-ranked Laval scored seven unanswered points in the final six minutes to edge No. 2 Western Ontario 13-11 in the Uteck Bowl and advance to the Vanier Cup.
Coaches and players from the University of Western Ontario Mustangs and Laval University Rouge et Or took part in the traditional Meet the Teams media conference Friday.
The Saint Mary’s Huskies arrived in Calgary Thursday morning to prepare for the Mitchell Bowl on Saturday against the Dinos in what’s expected to be an icy cold game.
Calgary QB Erik Glavic and a pair of Western Ontario Mustangs, DB Craig Butler and K Lirim Hajrullahu, are the CIS players of the week for the period ending Nov. 13, 2010.