McGill University Athletics

Alexandre Picard-Hooper (B.Com '12) of Boucherville, Que., earned a management degree, majoring in finance and accounting. He captured almost every award possible during his stellar four seasons at McGill from 2008 to 2012, including the Forbes Trophy as the university's male athlete of the year in 2010-11. In 175 career games overall, the 5-foot-10, 185-pound forward scored 68 goals and a whopping 264 points, three shy of the school's all-time scoring record held by Tim Iannone. Picard-Hooper won the Senator Joseph Sullivan Trophy as the most outstanding player in CIS men's hockey, the Bill L'Heureux Trophy as OUA league MVP and the OUA East conference player of the year award, in addition to meriting league all-star status and All-Canadian honours.

He helped guide McGill to four consecutive appearances in the league's Queen's Cup title game, winning OUA gold three times. In each of his final two years, the team reached the CIS University Cup championship game, winning silver in 2010-11, followed by gold the next year. A recipient of the Dr. Bobby Bell Trophy (2010-11) as the team's most valuable player, he also won the team's FMH Trophy (2008-09) as rookie of the year, and the Molson Cup Award (2008-09) for most three-star selections. In his junior year, he tallied 91 points in 46 games overall, including a school record 68 assists, surpassing the previous mark of 60 set by George Burnett in 1982-83. He finished three points short of the team's single-season overall record of 94 set by Pierre Gendron in 1996-97. In regular season play that year, Picard-Hooper led the country in scoring with 58 points, including a nation-leading 47 assists in 28 conference games, becoming the first McGill player to win the CIS national scoring title since Mathieu Darche accomplished the feat in 1999-00.