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Durham Lords Media Release
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Durham College golf coach selected for Team Canada
OTTAWA – A delegation of five coaches and 11 student-athletes will represent Canada at the 13th FISU world university golf championships in Antequera, Spain, from June 7 to 11, 2010. Durham College head coach Mike Duggan has been selected as a member of the coaching staff, representing team Canada for the second time at the FISU games.
“I'm honoured to be selected as a member of the team Canada coaching staff once again," said Duggan. “It was a great experience representing Canada in South Africa and I look forward to working with the other coaches and all of the athletes at the games in Spain.”
Duggan has been the head coach of the Durham Lords varsity golf program for the past 12 seasons after helping the college re-introduce the program in the 1996-97 season. Durham golfers have had consistent success on the provincial and national level under Duggan’s leadership.
The Lords have won three overall provincial team titles (men’s in 2004 and 2005, women’s in 2005), with the men’s team earning a medal in six straight OCAA championships from 2001-2006. The Lords have also participated in nine straight CCAA national championships with the men’s team winning three straight silver medals from 2004-2006 and the women’s team winning medals in 2004 (bronze) and 2005 (silver). This past year the men’s team won the overall OCAA bronze medal.
Lords golfers have also had plenty of individual success under Duggan’s tutelage. Tyler Martin won provincial titles in 2004 and 2006 and a national title in 2005 while Will Mitchell won a provincial title in 2005 and a national title in 2006. Both are now playing professionally on the Canadian Tour. Stephanie Brown also brought an individual provincial gold medal to Durham in 2005. Kayleigh Kraemer won the OCAA individual silver medal at this year’s provincial championship.
Humber College’s Ray Chateau will act as head coach and team leader of the Canadian contingent for the third consecutive FISU championships, having held the same positions in 2008 in South Africa and 2006 in Italy. Along with Duggan and Chateau, the coaching staff in Spain will include University of Waterloo’s Carla Munch and Dave Hollinger as well as University of Victoria’s Dennis Fedoruk. Munch and Duggan were part of the Canadian coaching staff two years ago in South Africa.
The five women who have been selected to compete for Canada next June are Victoria’s Anne Balser of Digby, N.S., Humber’s Danielle Greene of Gananoque, Ont., McGill’s Mélissa Coré of Beaconsfield, Que., UBC’s Jocelyn Alford of Calgary, and Waterloo’s Tiffany Terrier of Kingston, Jamaica.
Balser is the lone returnee from the 2008 FISU championships, where she was the second best Canadian woman with a 31st-place finish, and also represented Canada at the 2007 Universiade, where she placed 42nd. She tied for sixth place at the 2009 RCGA Canadian university college championships in Hamilton.
Greene, who tied for third in Hamilton last May, is a veteran of the 2006 FISU tournament, where she was the top Canadian female with a 35th position as a representative of the University of Toronto.
Coré competed alongside Balser at the 2007 Universiade in Bangkok, where she had the best Canadian result in the women’s competition finishing in 34th position. She was eighth at the 2009 RCGA university college nationals.
On the men’s side, Canada will be represented by Laval’s Mathieu Gingras of Moncton, N.B., Humber teammates Ryan Willoughby of Chelmsford, Ont., and Mike Zizek of Mississauga, Ont., Victoria’s Mitch Evanecz of Red Deer, Alta., Waterloo’s Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont., and Montreal’s Philippe André Bannon of Montreal.
Gingras tied for second among Canadian men and for 25th overall at the 2008 FISU tourney. He tied for second place at the 2009 RCGA championships.
Willoughby tied for 46th in Italy in 2006 helping Canada to a fourth-place finish in the men’s standings, the country’s best FISU result to date.
Zizek, who tied for 10th at last May’s RCGA university college nationals, is the lone male returnee from the 2007 Universiade, where he was the best Canadian finisher with a 15th place in the men’s event.
Canada has competed at the FISU world university golf championships since 2002.
After they obtained their best result in 2006, the Canadian men finished seventh out of 14 countries two years ago. The women’s team, which took 12th place in a 13-country field in 2008, had its best finish in 2004 with an eighth position.
The United States and Japan are defending FISU men’s and women’s champions, respectively.
CANADIAN ROSTER
Women
Jocelyn Alford (UBC) - Calgary, Alta.
Anne Balser (Victoria) - Digby, N.S.
Mélissa Coré (McGill) - Beaconsfield, Que.
Danielle Greene (Humber) - Gananoque, Ont.
Tiffany Terrier (Waterloo) - Kingston, Jamaica
Men
Philippe André Bannon (Montreal) - Montreal, Que.
Mitch Evanecz (Victoria) - Red Deer, Alta.
Mathieu Gingras (Laval) - Moncton, N.B.
Garrett Rank (Waterloo) - Elmira, Ont.
Ryan Willoughby (Humber) - Chelmsford, Ont.
Mike Zizek (Humber) - Mississauga, Ont.
Staff
Ray Chateau (Humber) -Head coach / team leader
Michael Duggan (Durham) - Assistant coach
Dennis Fedoruk (Victoria) - Assistant coach
Dave Hollinger (Waterloo) - Assistant coach
Carla Munch (Waterloo) - Assistant coach
Official championship website: www.wucgolf2010.com
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Scott Dennis
Sports Information and Marketing Coordinator
Durham College and UOIT Athletics
905.721.2000 Ext. 2784 (P)
905.721.3117 (F)
scott.dennis@dc-uoit.ca
With files from CIS
