CIS Roundup

[jerrym]

The article below discusses how under appreciated the CIS is. It also includes a video.

Canada has devoted fans for sports from hockey to football to basketball to curling and well beyond, but all of those sports are contested at a high level nationally where they don't draw much attention.
That would be Canadian Interuniversity Sport, which has 56 member universities from coast to coast with 11,500 athletes, and regulates national competition in 12 different sports (men's football, women's rugby and field hockey, and men's and women's basketball, cross-country, curling, hockey, soccer, swimming, track and field, volleyball and wrestling; many universities also compete in other sports on more regional levels). CIS has produced countless highly-successful Olympians and other professional athletes, and its competitions make for great viewing at a cheap price, but they're off the radar for many Canadian sports fans.
That's why there's something to be said for University of Calgary Dinos' quarterback Andrew Buckley's comments Monday (after being honoured as Canada's top male university athlete at the BLG Awards; Olympic-bound swimmer Kylie Masse from the University of Toronto Varsity Blues was named the top female athlete) about how CIS deserves more attention:

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh...184304155.html

[ArgoRavi]

The article below discusses how under appreciated the CIS is. It also includes a video.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh...184304155.html

When OV writes about the failures of the Canadian sports media, the coverage of CIS in this country can be high on his list and rightfully so IMO. We can watch all kinds of NCAA sports, especially football and basketball, in Canada but precious little of the CIS variety.

[jerrym]

In 2016, 53 CIS players were selected in the CFL draft with Laval Rouge et Or leading the way with 8 selections including: # 2. Philippe Gagnon, Laval, OL (by Montreal); 5. Charles Vaillancourt, Laval, OL (by British Columbia); 7. Jason Lauzon-Séguin, Laval, OL (by Ottawa); (28^th overall) Shayne Gauthier, Laval, LB (by Winnipeg); (38^th overall) Jean-Philippe Bolduc, Laval, DB (by Calgary); (39^th overall) Félix Faubert-Lussier, Laval, WR (by Hamilton); (42^nd overall) Pierre-Luc Caron, Laval, LB (by Calgary); and (69^th overall) Guillaume Tremblay-Lebel, Laval, LB (by Ottawa). The following article includes all 53CIS drafted players.

Philippe Gagnon, an offensive lineman from Laval University, was the first CIS player selected in the 2016 CFL Canadian Draft when the Montreal Alouettes called his name at No. 2, on Tuesday evening.
For all the information on the CFL Canadian Draft: www.cfl.ca

The first overall selection, by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, was offensive lineman Josiah St. John from the University of Oklahoma, marking the second straight year than an NCAA player topped the charts after an eight-year CIS stranglehold on the first pick from 2007 to 2014.

Overall, 53 CIS standouts were selected out of 70 total picks (75.7%). The tally is the second best in league history, trailing only the whopping 59 CIS stars chosen in 2014 out of 65 total selections (90.8%). A year ago, CIS players made up 71% of draftees (44 out of 62).

Other CIS representatives to go in the first round were Acadia wide receiver Brian Jones at No. 4 (Toronto), as well as two more members of the dominating Laval offensive line, Charles Vaillancourt at No. 5 (British Columbia) and Jason Lauzon-Séguin at No. 7 (Ottawa).

http://english.cis-sic.ca/sports/fba...eases/cfldraft

[jerrym]

The McMaster Marauders had five players chosen in the CFL draft reflecting the strength of their program.

Wayne Moore led the way on a busy night for the Marauder football program, as five McMaster players were selected by Canadian Football League teams over the course of Tuesday’s CFL Entry Draft.
The fourth-year running back was chosen by the Montreal Alouettes with the 11th overall pick in the second round, becoming the first member of the OUA to be selected. Moore was the fourth McMaster running back to be selected in the CFL Draft, following in the footsteps of former BLG Award winners Kojo Aidoo (2003) and Jesse Lumsden (2005), and Andre Sadeghian (2007). He finished the 2015 season with a total of 565 rushing yards and three touchdowns.
Halfback Declan Cross was the second McMaster name to be called on Tuesday, as the Toronto Argonauts chose the versatile offensive weapon with the 27th overall pick in the fourth round. Known well for his blocking prowess, Cross missed four games due to injury in 2015, but finished the season with 42 yards receiving and 23 rushing.
A stalwart on Mac’s offensive line, Zach Intzandt followed his Marauder teammates by being selected by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers with the 37th overall pick in the fifth round. A regular starter since his second year in Maroon and Grey, Intzandt sucessfully made the transition across the trenches early in his McMaster career.
Across the line, defensive end Mike Kashak was the next McMaster player to be selected, being chosen by the Calgary Stampeders with the 51st overall selection in the sixth round. A key member of the suffocating defensive unit that led McMaster to the Vanier Cup in 2014, Kashak racked up 25 tackles in 2015, including 12 for a loss and eight sacks.
Despite spending a year away from the Marauders, John Ngeleka’s skills as a defensive back and special teams ace were valued highly enough for the Toronto Argonauts to make him their second McMaster pick and seventh round choice with the 58th overall selection. In his last Mac action, Ngeleka posted 9.5 tackles in a full season of action in 2014, and was a regular starter in the playoff run that culminated in an appearance in the 50th Vanier Cup in Montreal.

http://www.thespec.com/sports-story/...016-cfl-draft/