Jessica Bondy MacDonald isn’t the only former L’Essor wrestler looking to further their Olympic hopes at the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association’s team trials this week in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
David Tremblay Jr., a Stoney Point native, is the No. 1 seed in the 55kg men’s division.<\/p>\n
As the 2011 national senior open champion at that weight, Tremblay is guaranteed a D spot in Saturday’s final Tre at the Duckworth Centre at the University of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
The rest of his challengers must survive a Friday pool of competition until one emerges to face Tremblay in a best-ofthree series.<\/p>\n
“A lot of those guys are pretty close (in ability) so it will be interesting to see who comes out of the pool,”said Tremblay, who attends Concordia University in Montreal.<\/p>\n
“I’m ready for anybody.”The winner out of Winnipeg does not automatically make Canada’s Olympic team for the 2012 Games in London next summer.<\/p>\n
Rather, they earn the right to compete for a team spot at a series of international Olympic qualifiers.<\/p>\n
If Tremblay prevails, then he’ll compete at the FILA Pan American Championships in March where the top two clinch an Olympic berth.<\/p>\n
If not there, he’ll compete in China and possibly Switzerland next spring where the top three at each of those events moves on to London.<\/p>\n
lay”Training has been going well and my body is sound,”Tremblay said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a countdown of days now.<\/p>\n
“This has been my goal since I moved (to Montreal).”<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old has been in Montreal since 2005 where he’s now in his fourth year at Concordia.<\/p>\n
He and his coach opted to skip the 2008 Olympic process because they felt he was too young.<\/p>\n
“We figured my best chance was (this) Olympics,”said Tremblay, who earned a CIS title in 2010.<\/p>\n
To prepare for Winnipeg, Tremblay has competed in a few university tournaments and he’s been training with a very familiar-looking Concordia team that now boasts his younger brother Noel along with fellow L’Essor grads Linda Morais, Mitch Krauter and Scott Schiller.<\/p>\n
Like MacDonald, he also attended the world championships earlier this fall but lost his opening match to a wrestler from Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n
While disappointed by his own performance, he found watching MacDonald wrestle her way to a share of bronze quite gratifying.<\/p>\n
“It’s been cool seeing her on trips around the world,”he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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