MONTREAL – A Super Bowl champion who was one of three McGillians to play in the National Football League, is among six new laureates selected for induction to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame. The Class of 2025 includes three all-star athletes, a pair of distinguished builders and an undefeated championship team.
Dr. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (MDCM ’18), who hails from St. Hilaire, Que., won the prestigious Metras Trophy as most outstanding lineman in Canadian university football and went on to an eight-year NFL career. He is one of three doctors heading to the Hall this year, along with Dr. Donald Taylor (DDS ’66), a native of Lachine, Que., and retired orthodontist who starred at football and hockey. They will be joined by Dr. Philip Hedrei (MDCM ’00), from the Town of Mt. Royal, Que., a pediatric emergency physician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, who rowed for five years at McGill, then coached the team for two decades and will be inducted in the builder category.
Also selected was Katia Clément-Heydra (BA ’14), an All-Canadian forward from St. Bruno de Montarville, Que., who won the Brodrick Trophy as Canadian university women’s hockey player of the year. Another voted into the builder category is Abigail Tannebaum-Sharon (BA ’00) of Bethesda, MD., who founded the McGill women’s varsity lacrosse program in 1996, while serving concurrently as team captain, coach, and manager. Finally, selected in the team category, is the 2015 McGill men’s lacrosse squad that posted a perfect 15-0 record in league and playoffs en route to capturing the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association championship.
The McGill pantheon will now have 186 honoured members, 31 of them Olympians. Founded in 1996, it will be celebrating its 30th induction class this year and is located inside Tomlinson Hall at the Sir Arthur Currie Gymnasium at 475 Pine Avenue West. This year’s induction luncheon is slated for Friday, Oct. 24, as part of McGill Homecoming 2025, and will be held at 1909 Taverne Moderne, next to the Bell Centre on Avenue des Canadiens. Ticket information will be announced in early September and posted on the McGill Athletics and Homecoming 2025 websites.
Brief profiles for each of the new inductees are available online
More detailed biographies and additional photos will be posted online at www.mcgillathletics.ca each Wednesday for the next six weeks. Biographies for previous inductees are also available online at: www.mcgillathletics.ca/hof.aspx
The McGill Sports Hall of Fame selection committee, under the guidance of interim chair Mike Richards, is composed of a wide-ranging group representing students, administrative staff, university officials and alumni. Submissions for next year’s induction can be made by completing an online nomination form before April 1, 2026.
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Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
514-983-7012 (Tel.)
www.mcgillathletics.ca
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca