sentences:  At 16, he began training seriously as a track and field athlete, and started getting national attention in both the discus and the hammer throw.After graduating from Royal George as the co-president of the Student Council and winning the Athlete of the Year award, he attended Champlain College Saint-Lambert under the tutor of former Czechoslovakian weight-lifting Olympic coach Dr. Emil Muller.In 1993, he earned a spot on the Canadian Jr. National Track and Field Team as a hammer thrower.