“A difficult moment”: mourning rifles at the dawn of a new season

A few days before his beginnings with the Carabin football team, Joseph Gingras, a first -year player, lost his life in a car accident on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.

The accident occurred in Sainte-Madeleine, in Montérégie. The car of the young 21-year-old athlete caught fire after hitting a semi-trailer.

It’s a tragic moment. He was a young man who was incredible and who had a remarkable work ethics. He has only been among us for six months, but he had already left his brandunderlined the Carabins head coach on Monday on Monday, Marco Iadeluca, during the media availability of the team, obviously still shaken by the situation.

It’s never easy, and it puts things in perspective.

Originally from Mont-Saint-Hilaire, the defensive half carried the colors of the winners of the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe for four seasons. He won two titles from the Bol d’Or Division 2 and was appointed to the star team RSEQ In 2024.

Last December, Joseph Gingras announced that he would join the Carabins for the 2025 season. Among his new teammates, many had already played with him in the winners and knew him well before his arrival at the University of Montreal.

It was a difficult time for the team, for everyone. But as I said to the guys, you have to stay together and help yourselfadded Mr. Iadeluca.

It was the most difficult week of my coach career.

The organization of rifles, in agreement with the medical team, has decided not to comment on the situation for the moment, out of respect for players still in shock.

Resources in psychological support have been made available to student-athletes and football team staffcan we read in a team press release.

Large sizes to be put on

Despite this trying week for the big family of Carabins, Marco Iadluca and its staff must prepare for the 2025 season which is fast approaching.

With the departure of Jonathan Sénécal, appointed male athlete of the year in the Canadian University Network (U Sports) in 2024, the holding quarter-arre post is vacant.

Sénécal became the first rifle drafted by the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League (LCF) from Marc-Olivier Brouillette in 2010, and the first quarter of Quebecers has been since this same year. He was entrenched from the sparrow camp.

According to the Carabins head coach, the four-quarters of the workforce are in the running for the post of No. 1. Rakim Canal-Charles, who begins his fourth year, is one of the options, just like the exceptional recruit Grief Gonzalez, a player par excellence in college and considered as the natural heir to Sénécal since his commitment with the University of Montreal in August 2024.

What is impressive is that the four quarters are in competition and that they all do a good job right nowunderlined William Legault, receiver in his fifth and last year.

I would not like to be in place of coachs To make this decision!

To decide, Marco Iadeluca has planned a preparatory match against the Gee-Gees d’Ottawa on Saturday August 16 at Cepsum.

The team also saw Jeremiah Ojo, defensive winger drafted last May by the Argonauts of Toronto in the first round of the first round.

As every year, we have a rolling of around 20 % of the workforce, explained Marco Iadeluca. It is certain that this year, we lose a quarter-Arrière, but in the academic world, it happens every three or four years.

There is no change of identity despite the big starts. This is what we are, the rifles: we play quickly and we play aggressive.

The head coach and his receiver believe that recruitment will make it possible to fill the departures and that the team is in good hands.

The Carabins will undertake their home season on August 23 against the Stingers of Concordia. A first confrontation against the red and gold of Laval University is scheduled for September 12 in Montreal.

As I say every season, we want to play our best football in Novemberrecalled Marco Iadeluca, in search of a second vanier cup since he was in office in 2020.