Concordia Stinger Alex Moore won a gold medal and was named the outstanding male wrestler at the U SPORTS national championship hosted by University of Calgary on Friday and Saturday.
The second-year athlete from Montreal dominated the competition in the 90-kilo weight class. In the preliminaries on Friday, he beat Sunny Benning (fall) from Fraser Valley University, Caleb Goodfellow (fall) from University of Toronto and Clayton Pye (11-4 decision) from Brock University.
In the gold medal match on Saturday, he defeated Hunter Lee of the University of Saskatchewan by a 12-0 score. Moore won a bronze medal as a rookie competitor at the nationals the previous year.
Moore’s efforts helped the Concordia men’s team finish in second place at the championships. The Stingers had 58 points. Brock won the title with 83 points. The University of Alberta finished third with 52 points.
Concordia sent seven men’s wrestlers to Calgary and came home with seven medals. In addition to Moore, Francis Carter (68 kg) and Jordan Steen (100 kg) were also gold medallists. Carter won his second consecutive gold medal. Steen, a fifth-year senior, won his fourth gold medal.
Samuel Barmish (82 kg) and Frédérick Choquette (120 kg) were silver medallists.
Rookie Dajinder Singh (65 kg) and second-year Stinger Aaron Orzsak (76 kg) won bronze medals.
On the women’s side Concordia finished in third place with 37 points. Brock was first with 53 points and Saskatchewan took second place with 48 points.
Six Stingers competed at nationals and three won medals.
Jade Dufour (51 kg) won her first gold medal after earning a bronze medal in 2018 and a silver in 2017. Second-year athlete Amanda Savard (67 kg) also won her first gold medal. She won a bronze in 2018.
Veteran wrestler Geneviève Lamarche (72 kg) earned a bronze medal, while Laurence Beauregard finished fourth at 59 kilos.
Rounding out the competition for the Stingers, rookie Kaleigh Prieur finished fifth at 48 kilos and Kaya Dubé Snow was seventh at 55 kilos.
