Benoit Groulx was appointed as full-time offensive coordinator of the McGill University football team on March 27, 2015. The 30-year-old native of Montreal was elevated from his spot as quarterbacks coach, which he has handled at McGill since last season.
Groulx previously was an offensive coordinator with the Bishop’s Gaiters from 2010 to 2012. He served in a similar capacity with Team Quebec, helping lead them to Canada Cup championships in 2011 and 2012.
Groulx has nine years of coaching experience, including stints in various football camps. He coached at the Académie Saint-Louis from 2012 to 2014 and served as director of sports and football program coordinator at Curé-Antoine Labelle, a high school in Laval, Que. He was also head coach and offensive coordinator of the Quebec City Monarks of the Quebec Major Football League in 2009, and was an assistant with the Élites de Québec U-15 and U-17 teams at the Wilson Cup Challenge in 2007 and 2008.
He had a stellar playing career, guiding Laval to a pair of CIS national titles, winning the Vanier Cup in 2006 and 2008. With the Rouge et Or, he was an All-Canadian and three-time RSEQ conference player of the year, winning the Hec Crighton Trophy in 2008 as the most outstanding player in CIS football.
After five seasons at Laval, from 2005 to 2009, Groulx established an RSEQ league record for career touchdown passes with 66, which currently ranks seventh in CIS history and holds the CIS record for single-season completion percentage (75.2% in 2008). Six years after retiring, he is still ranked fourth among the league’s all-time leaders for passing yards (8,530), fourth in pass completions (612) and eighth in pass attempts (853). He is ranked second for most TD passes in an RSEQ game (6).
Prior to joining Laval, he played at the CEGEP level with the Vieux-Montréal Spartiates (2002-2004) winning the Bol d’Or as league champion all three seasons. He was twice named the CEGEP AAA league MVP (2003 and 2004). He also won a silver medal as a member of Team Canada at the 2004 NFL Global Junior Championship.
