Born on March 30, 1987 in St. Hubert, Que.,
Marc-André Dorion played a key role in leading the McGill men's hockey program to it's first national championship in 2012.
A three-time All-Canadian over his four years at McGill, the 5-foot-11, 188-pound defenceman was recruited from the QMJHL, where he was an all-star and skated five seasons with Acadie-Bathurst and Baie-Comeau. He had NHL tryouts with Dallas (2008), Toronto (2010) and Phoenix (2011).
Dorion enrolled at McGill in 2008 and graduated in 2012 as the institution's all-time top-scoring rearguard with 192 points, including 38 goals, in 174 games overall. He also collected 170 penalty minutes. In regular season play, he posted a 23-107-130 record and 108 PIMs in 105 contests. His career points record in OUA play was surpassed in 2020 by blue- liner
Dominic Talbot-Tassi, who tallied 29-106-135 in 140 OUA contests.
One of the most decorated hockey players in McGill history, Dorion helped Canada claim bronze at the 2011 world university FISU Winter Games in Turkey.. He was voted OUA East Conference player of the year in 2011-12 and earned CIS defenceman-of-the-year honours in two of his last three seasons. An alternate captain in his senior year, he won a BLG Award as the top male student-athlete in the country.
Dorion received the Bobby Bell Trophy as Team MVP and the D.S. Forbes Trophy as McGill's male athlete of the year in 2011-12.
He was also honoured by the CIS in 2012 as one of the Top 8 Academic All-Canadians in the country, achieving a sessional grade point average of 3.78 out of 4.00 in physical and health education. Dorion also made the Principal's Student-athlete Honour Roll and in 2009, received the Prix d 'Excellence Guy Lafleur for his outstanding achievement in combining a high level of hockey with academic achievement and leadership.
Since graduating, he has played professionally for the past decade in Austria and France. In 2022, he completed an MBA from Université Laval.
