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Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton
January 28, 2010
by Nicole Betker, Huskies Sports Information
SASKATOON - Former University of Saskatchewan Huskie football player Lyndon Rush was named to the Canadian Olympic Bobsleigh team Wednesday.
Rush, a Humbodlt, Sask., native, will pilot the Canada-1 sled that includes Lascelles Brown, Chris Le Bihan and David Bissett. This season, he earned his first-ever World Cup medals winning three. He is ranked sixth overall on the two-man circuit and eighth overall in the four-man.
A defensive lineman with the Huskies from 1999-2003, Rush helped the Huskies to two Canada West Hardy Cup victories in 1999 and 2002. He also played with the Huskies in the 2002 Vanier Cup against the Saint Mary’s University Huskies. Although the Saskatchewan Huskies lost 33-21, Rush had his biggest claim to fame in CIS football in the game. In the second quarter, Rush recovered a fumbled ball, running it to the end zone only to drop it. Teammate Brett Lamden jumped on the ball for the touchdown. The play brought the Huskies within two points of Saint Mary’s.
In his UofS career, Rush tallied 79 tackles and four sacks.
He began bobsleigh quickly after leaving the University of Saskatchewan, attending his first recruitment camp in the summer of 2004 at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. He began in training as a breakman, but moved to pilot after an injury. He spent the 2004-05 season on the America’s Cup circuit, an entry level competitive tour, before moving to the America’s Cup and the finally World Cup events in 2007.
Rush is the 28th Huskie to compete in the Olympics. Most recently, pole vaulter Kelsie Hendry competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The 2010 Olympic Games begin February 12 in Vancouver. Bobsleigh competition beings February 20. The Games wrap up February 28.