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MONTREAL – Devin Chapplea distance runner with the McGill University Redbirds, has earned first-team all-star status, while teammates Luca Messenger-Jones and Samuel Hepworth have merited berths on the second squad as the RSEQ men’s cross-country laureates have been announced.
The top seven finishers at the RSEQ championship meet, held Oct. 26 in Vaudreuil, Que., automatically earn a first-team spot, while the next seven runners receive second-team honours.
Chapplea 21-year-old finance senior from Toronto, finished seventh in the league’s title meet, completing the eight-kilometre course in 25 minutes, 19 seconds.
Messenger-Jones is a 20-year-old exchange student from the University of Edinburgh. The U.K. native who hails from the mountainous Lake District region in northwest England, finished eighth of 110 runners, posting a time of 25:21.
Hepworth is a 20-year-old psychology sophomore from Montreal. He finished 11h overall, crossing the finish line in 25:31.
Among the conference’s major award winners, Laval’s Philippe Morneau-Cartier was named athlete of the year in a vote conducted by the league’s 11 head coaches. Sherbrooke’s Nolan Turgeon won rookie-of-the-year honours, while UQTR’s Vincent Abraham earned the leadership and citizenship award, Sherbrooke’s Marc-André Roy was named coach of the year.
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Earl Zukerman
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McGill University
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