Morais headlines national team contingent headed to World University Wrestling Championship

September 04, 2018

TORONTO / OTTAWA – Former Concordia Stinger Linda Morais leads Team Canada into the 2018 World University Wrestling Championship beginning Tuesday, a squad that is rich in national team experience.

The lone returning athlete from the 2016 World University Championship, Morais captured gold two years ago in the 60 kg weight class, one of Canada’s six medals at the event. A bronze medalist at the World Championship in 2016, Morais most recently represented her country at the 2018 Senior Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru, alongside fellow Stingers Jade Dufour and Laurence Beauregard as well as York’s Alexandria Town.

The Canadian squad also features national team athletes in Concordia’s Vincent De Marinis and Alex Moore, who competed for Canada at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

Ten of the team’s student-athletes reached the podium at last year’s U SPORTS Wrestling Championships, including 68 kg champion Francis Carter of Concordia – the Men’s Outstanding Wrestler of the Year and a nominee for the BLG Award for U SPORTS Male Athlete of the Year. Five members also come from the perennial national champion Brock Badgers.

Reigning U SPORTS Men’s Wrestling Coach of the Year Owen Dawkins of Alberta – who was on staff at the 2013 Summer Universiade – will be one of four staff members heading to the event, joined by Concordia’s Victor Zilberman and Robert Moore, along with medical staff of Brock’s Katelyn Lockwood.

The 2018 World University Wrestling Championship runs Sept. 4-9 in Goiania, Brazil.

TEAM CANADA ROSTER

WEIGHT CLASS	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	SCHOOL	ELIG.	HOMETOWN	PROGRAM
50 kg	Jade	Dufour	Concordia	4	Winsdor, Ont.	Exercise Science
53 kg	Abby	Lloyd	Simon Fraser	N/A	Powell, River, B.C.	Criminology
57 kg	Alexandria	Town	York	4	Scarborough, Ont.	Kinesiology & Health Science
59 kg	Laurence	Beauregard	Concordia	2	Montreal, Que.	Exercise Science
62 kg	Linda	Morais	Concordia	N/A	Windsor, Ont.	Independant Studies
65 kg	Haley	Heffel	Alberta	3	Dapp, Alta.	Kinesiology, Sport & Rec.
68 kg	Indira	Moores	Brock	N/A	Whitefish, Ont.	Phys. Ed.
72 kg	Shauna	Kuebeck	Brock	3	Greenbank, Ont.	Kinesiology
78 kg	Taylor	Follensbee	Saskatchewan	N/A	Moose Jaw, Sask.	Psychology
57 kg	Samuel	Jagas	Brock	N/A	Kitchener, Ont.	Biochemistry
65 kg	Vincent	De Marinis	Concordia	N/A	Pierrefonds, Que.	Finance
70 kg	Francis	Carter	Concordia	4	Montreal, Que.	Psychology
74 kg	Tyler	Rowe	Brock	5	Barrie, Ont.	Phys.Ed.
79 kg	Juwan	Burgess	Brock	2	Ajax, Ont.	Business Communications
86 kg	Alexander	Moore	Concordia	2	Montreal, Que.	Economics
125 kg	Sean	Molle	Simon Fraser	N/A	Calgary, Alta.	Professional Development