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The Concordia Stingers are the athletic teams that represent Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They compete with other schools in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, and more specifically in Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec. The Stingers were established in 1974 when Sir George Williams University and Loyola College merged to form Concordia University and replaced the preceding Sir George Williams Georgians and Loyola Warriors.
Loyola College was a Jesuit college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1896 and ceased to exist as an independent institution in 1974 when it was incorporated into Concordia University. A portion of the original college remains as a separate entity called Loyola High School.
Bryan Chiu is the former offensive line coach for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and current head coach of Vancouver College. He was a professional Canadian football centre for the Montreal Alouettes from 1997 to 2009. He has also served as the offensive line coach for the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Redblacks.
Danny Maciocia is the head coach and general manager of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was previously head coach of the Université de Montréal Carabins football team. He is also the former general manager and director of football operations of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos and former offensive coordinator with the André-Grasset Phénix, a CEGEP team in Montreal.
Lloyd Barker is a former professional soccer player who represented the Jamaica national team.
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John A. "Tony" Proudfoot was an All-Star defensive back in the Canadian Football League, teacher, coach, broadcaster and journalist.
The Quebec Juvenile Football League operated from 1959 to 1979 as a stepping stone between midget and junior football, and was later merged with the Quebec Junior Football League. The age group consisted primarily of 17- to 19-year-olds, although there were players as young as 15, playing.
Darko Kolić is a Serbian former footballer.
John Dore has been head coach of the Concordia Stingers men's basketball team since the 1989-1990 season. He has taken the Concordia Stingers to the national championship tournament 10 times. Concordia won the national crown in 1990 and placed second in 1995 and 2005.
Shawn Mayne is a former Canadian football defensive end in the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with the 18th overall pick in the 2006 CFL Draft. He played college football at UConn.
Lisa-Marie Breton is an assistant coach with Les Canadiennes de Montréal. For the 2010–11 Montreal CWHL season, Breton is the team captain. Breton has also competed for the Canada women's national inline hockey team, capturing a gold medal for Canada at the 2005 FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships in Paris, France.
The Concordia Stingers women's ice hockey program represents Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in the sport of ice hockey in the RSEQ conference of U Sports. The Stingers have won three national championships, in 1998, 1999, and 2022, and 19 conference championships.
André Bolduc is a former Canadian football slotback and is the run game coordinator and running backs coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Mark Mahon is a Canadian-German former ice hockey player, who has been serving as a coach and Director of Sport since the end of his playing career. Mahon was most recently the Director of Sport at Kölner Haie in Germany's top-tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
The Concordia Stingers football team represents Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in the sport of Canadian football in the RSEQ conference of U Sports. The Concordia Stingers football program was created in 1974 from the amalgamation of the Loyola Warriors and Sir George Williams Georgians. The team has won three Dunsmore Cup conference championships, in 1982, 1993, and 1998. In 1998, the Stingers also made their first and only appearance in the national championship which was a loss to the Saskatchewan Huskies in the 34th Vanier Cup game.
The 2017 U Sports football season began on August 25 with the St. Francis Xavier X-Men visiting the Saint Mary's Huskies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Montreal Carabins visiting the Concordia Stingers in Montreal, Quebec. The season concluded on November 25 with the 53rd Vanier Cup championship at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario. This season saw the first conference shift since 2001 with the Bishop's Gaiters moving from the Quebec Student Sport Federation to the Atlantic University Sport conference. 27 university teams in Canada participated in the newly re-branded U Sports football, the highest level of amateur Canadian football. The Western Mustangs defeated the Laval Rouge et Or, 39-17, to win their first Vanier Cup since 1994.
Nathalie Déry is a Canadian ice hockey coach, retired player, and high school teacher. Déry is an assistant coach for Les Canadiennes de Montreal, the team she played for as a defender before retiring in 2012.
Warren Craney is the former head coach for York University's football team, the York Lions, a position he has held since the 2010. He has also been a coach for the Canada national football junior team, winning a gold medal as the team's defensive coordinator in 2012 and winning the championship as the team's head coach in 2016. Prior to his time with York, he was the defensive coordinator for the Concordia Stingers.
Mickey Donovan is a professional Canadian football coach who is currently the special teams coordinator for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
