Each Wednesday for a six-week period from June 15 to July 20, one of the newly-minted 2022 inductees to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame will be profiled. In our fourth installment, meet Marc-Andre Dorion (BEd '12), who will be honoured in the athlete category.

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.

Joining Dorion among the 2022 McGill Sports Hall of Fame induction class is two-time football All-Canadian Ben Walsh (BA '08) of Vancouver, B.C., along with five-time hockey All-Canadian Ann-Sophie Bettez (BCom '11) of Sept-Iles, Que., and basketball builder George Lengvari (BCL '66) from Montreal West, Que. Also selected are two national championship-winning hockey teams, the 2011-12 men's squad and the 2008-09 women's program.

The hallowed Hall now has 169 honoured members, 30 of them Olympians, since the pantheon was initiated in 1996. The induction luncheon is scheduled during Homecoming Week, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Le Centre Sheraton in downtown Montreal. Ticket information will be available in early September.

Profiles for previous inductees to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame are available online and submissions for next year's induction can be made by completing an online nomination form at: www.mcgillathletics.ca/hof.aspx before April 1, 2023.


SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
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