Cecilia Anderson competed for Concordia’s women’s hockey team, and represented Sweden in the 2006 Turin games, where her team won a silver medal.
Concordia University Winter Olympians
Concordia sports history includes many honours and a long record of participation in university and external competitions. Concordia athletes, coaches and trainers have been involved in the Olympics since the 1920s.
The XXIII Olympic Winter Games will be held in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea from February 9 to 25. To mark the occasion, Records Management and Archives took a look at Concordia athletes who competed in the Winter Olympics.
Karyn Bye played for the Stingers women’s hockey team during the mid-1990s. She was a member of the United States hockey team that won a gold medal at the Nagano Olympics in 1998 and the U.S. team that won a silver medal in Salt Lake City in 2002. She is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
Jim Corsi is a celebrated Concordia athlete who won many major awards and championships during his Concordia years in the mid-1970s. He was part of the hockey coaching team for Italy in 2006 (Turin). He is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
Kenneth Lowe played hocked at Loyola in the early 1970s and was also equipment manager and student trainer. By 1979 he was head of the Stingers athletic therapy center, running the clinic for three years. He had a long career as an athletic therapist and served as the trainer with Team Canada for world championships and at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. He is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
Photo Credit: Bernard Brault
Alexandre Bilodeau won gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and in 2010 in Vancouver as a freestyle skier. He studied Business Administration at JMSB.
Karen Bye and Cammi Granato
Lisa Jordan played for the Stingers women’s hockey team during the mid-1990s. She was a member of the 1995-1996 Women's Hockey Team which was inducted to the Sports Hall of Fame in 2009. She went on to coach women's hockey teams and brought home a gold medal as assistant coach of the Canadian women’s hockey team at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
Caroline Ouellette played women’s hockey for the Stingers during the 1990s. After she left Concordia she won a gold medal with Canada’s women’s hockey team at the Olympic games in Salt Lake City in 2002, in Turin in 2006 and in Vancouver in 2010. She will also participate in the 2014 games in Sochi.
Giulio Zardo was a Concordia student in 2002 when he competed with Pierre Leuders in the bobsledding competition at the Salt Lake City games, finishing fifth.
Thérèse Brisson played for the Concordia’s women’s hockey team from 1986 to 1990. She won a silver medal with Canada’s national women’s hockey team at the Nagano Olympics in 1998. She also competed in Salt Lake City in 2002, where the team won the gold medal. She is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
Cammi Granato played for the Stingers women’s hockey team during the mid-1990s. She was part of the United States hockey teams that won a gold medal for the United States at the Nagano Olympics in 1998 and a silver medal in Salt Lake City in 2002. She is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
Paul Levesque was very active in varsity skiing and intramural sports during his years at Loyola in the 1950s. He was a member of the Canadian National Bobsled Team from 1962 to 1967, and in 1967 he switched to luge, becoming playing-coach of the Canadian National Team. He continued in this role for the Canadian Team that competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. He is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
Frank Shaughnessy Jr. won championships in football with Loyola College in the 1920s and 1930s. He also won a bronze medal with the 1936 United States Olympic hockey team, and served in a variety of capacities with the Canadian Olympic Association. He is in the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
