A professional football player and Super Bowl Champion is at StFX today to speak with students
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif addressing STFX Leadership Academy student-athletes at a breakfast this morning. (St. FX University photo)
about the importance of nutrition.
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Brand Ambassador to Sodexo Canada’s The Circuit, Powering Athletic Performance program, received his doctorate in medicine from McGill University in 2018 while also playing professional football.
The Montreal native received the 2021 ESPY Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for sitting out the 2020 NFL season to work at a long term care facility in Quebec during the pandemic. Duvernay-Tardif said he wants to speak about not only the importance of nutrition for students and student Athletes, noting it was a challenge to keep everything balanced when he was a medical student and football player.
His talk is set for 10:30 today at the Schwartz Auditorium.