Updates for the Month of November

November 2015

On Sunday November 1st 2015, Concordia hosted its innaugural invitational tournament at the Loyola Campus Gym. The tournament featured 17 clubs from both club and university, a National Officials certification clinic and even Olympic hopefuls from a club in Rio De Janero Brazil.

The officials clinic marked the first time since 1990 that a National clinic for officials was held in the province of Quebec, which is a remarkable. A special nod goes out to President of the officials association, Abbas Mohammdian and Vice-president Tony Ronci for making this happen. For more information, click here.

The medal winners from Quebec were the following:

Competing for Concordia University in the Mens division, Bassell Bou Moughlabay took home the Gold Medal at 54 kgs while Trevor Banks won Bronze in the 57 kgs division. Vince De Marinis also won Gold at 65 kgs while Dima Gershanov took home a Bronze at 76 kgs. On the Womens side, Jade Dufour won Gold at 48 kgs while Linda Morais also won Gold at 63 kgs. Genevieve Lamarche took home the Silver Medal at 72 kgs while Theresa El Lati also won a Silver at 82 kgs.

Trevor Banks (Photo Credits: Concordia University)

Vince De Marinis (Photo Credits: Concordia University)

Dima Gershanov (Photo Credits: Concordia University)

Jade Dufour

Linda Morais (Photo Credits: Concordia University)

Theresa El Lati

George Reinitz with members of the Montreal YMHA

From the Montreal YMHA, Gabrile Chouke won a Gold Medal at 61 kgs while Scott Schiller took home the Silver and Charles Breton-Leduc won the Bronze Medal at 65 kgs. Guseyn Ruslandzada, wrestling at 68 kgs won a Silver Medal while Jordie Steen (82 kgs), Ali Al-Rekabi (100 kgs) and Yakhdan Al-Rekabi (130 kgs) all won Gold at their respective weight divisions. In the Womens division, Veronica Keefe was the sole representative for the Montreal YMHA, winning a Gold Medal at 82 kgs.

Scott Schiller

Charles Breton-Leduc

Ali Al-Rekabi

Yakhdan Al-Rekabi

Veronica Keefe

Competing for Vanier College, Francis Carter won a Bronze Medal competing 68 kgs while Alex Moore and Sam Barmish took home the Silver medals at 72 kgs and 76 kgs. Frederick Choquette rounds out the resutls with a Bronze Medal at 130 kgs

Alex Moore

Sam Barmish

Frederick Choquette

And finally from Brazil, Pedro Rocha won a Gold Medal competing at 82 kgs while Pan American Champion Joice Silva (59 kgs), Daliane Gomes 67 kgs won Gold. Rounding out the results for the contingent from Brasil was Keila Silva, who won Bronze at 82 kgs.

(From Left to Right) Joice Silva, Daliane Gomes, Pedro Rocha, Keila Silva

Congratulations on all the participants for fine results!

For the full results of the Mens Tournament and the Combined Results, click here

For the full results of the Womens Tournament, click here

November 11th 2015

On Wednesday November 11th, Sam Barmish was named the 2015 YM-YWHA Athlete of the year at the YM-YWHA. Sam had an undefeated wrestling season last year, and his hard work and dedication to the YMHA Wrestling Program were outstanding.

He is pictured with coach David Zilberman, YMHA Hall of Fame Athlete and 2008 Olympic Team Member receiving his award.

Congratulations to Sam!!!