Treloar added leadership to role in final year in CIS
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This article was published 28/11/2015 (3736 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Often in football, kickers and punters are viewed as the strange players on the team.
They are rarely involved in contact drills at practice, they generally don’t lift as much in the gym and they’re often left alone. Brandon’s Keegan Treloar did his best to break those stigmas during his five-year Canadian Interuniversity Sport career.
Although the six-foot-two, 195-pound kicker wasn’t involved in contact drills, he prided himself on being able to outlift some teammates and he wasn’t allowed to be ostracized this season by taking over as one of the Concordia Stingers’ captains. It was a different role for Treloar, but one he enjoyed.
“That’s a really strange role and you don’t see it a lot and it was kind of cool that I got the honour to do that,” said the
22-year-old Vincent Massey graduate who just finished his fifth and final season of eligibility. “With our team, we didn’t have a lot of veteran guys coming back. With myself being a true fifth-year, there were only three or four of us on the team, and I played every single game in those years so I think out-of-game experience and being around the league it was a big help for the younger guys.
“The guys definitely came to me for knowledge about what it’s like going into Laval and what it’s going to be like. I got to share some of my stories and things that helped me. It’s been pretty cool being a team captain and dealing with coin tosses and things like that.”
Treloar’s initial plan was to not have to come back for a fifth season at Concordia. He would have prefered to be selected in the Canadian Football League draft or invited to a team’s camp and be in the professional ranks instead. However, none of those dreams came true.
Instead, he returned to the university in Montreal to add an international business minor to his commerce degree with a major in marketing.
He also had a different approach to his final campaign. Instead of putting a lot of pressure on himself for each kick, he was a little more relaxed. He was also forced to punt more than he had in the past, which took away some of the focus from his field goals.
The result was he made six of eight field goals, his longest from 44 yards out, as well as all 30 converts he attempted. Treloar also averaged 54.1 yards per kickoff and 35.4 yards per punt.
Although he admits he didn’t have his best season, Treloar did create a new favourite memory by making a walk-off 30-yard field goal to beat the host McGill Redmen 43-41 on Oct. 24.
“It was an ability to show my team that I can go out and deliver under pressure and I got my boys’ backs. I stepped up and hit it and as soon as I hit it I knew it was good,” said Treloar, who also kicked a game-winning field goal last season. “The game against McGill last year was different in that I had to wait out the clock. There were zero seconds on the clock for this one and the team flooded the field and it was truly an incredible experience and it will probably be my biggest memory in my five years.”
That kick helped a young Concordia team post a 4-4 record and secure a playoff spot. The Stingers fell 52-8 to the Laval Rouge et Or in the Quebec conference semifinals.
Life is about to change in a major way for Treloar now. He finishes his schooling on
Dec. 21 and already has a job lined up after he’s done. One of the Stingers’ boosters has hired Treloar in the sales and marketing department of his company that deals with trucking for concerts and events.
His boss will also allow him to continue training and kicking in hopes of making the CFL next season.
Treloar is ready to call Montreal his new hometown but he admits he’ll always be a Brandonite deep down.
“It’s been a privilege to be out here,” he said. “It will be weird to call Montreal my home once I start working out here. Definitely Brandon is my true home and where my heart is. It’s just a new life for me here and I’m excited to start it.”
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