{"id":19722,"date":"2013-02-15T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=19722"},"modified":"2013-02-15T20:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T04:14:36","slug":"mathieu-roy-le-seul-quebecois-de-lequipe-canadienne-au-mondial-de-balle-rapide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=19722","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu Roy, le seul Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de l’\u00e9quipe canadienne au Mondial de balle rapide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click logo for original news story and photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Cap tip to Softball Canada for this story.
\nOLIVIER BOSS\u00c9
\nLe Soleil<\/em>
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\nThe headline above roughly translating to “Mathieu Roy, the only player from Quebec on Team Canada”<\/em><\/p>\n

[Rough Google Translation]<\/p>\n

(Qu\u00e9bec) While Mathieu Roy toured the diamond, his career went around the world. Fastball player prepares to compete in the World Championship. Here are four destinations in its route.<\/p>\n

While Mathieu Roy toured the diamond, his career went around the world. Fastball player prepares to compete in the World Championship. Here are four destinations in its route.<\/p>\n

Auckland, New Zealand. The World Senior Men’s International Softball Federation is held from 1 to 10 March. Roy, 24, is the only Quebecer and youngest player in the Canadian team. Australia, the defending champions, New Zealand, vice-champions, Argentina, Japan and Venezuela are the powers involved.<\/p>\n

“We are ranked among the top five teams, but there is gold,” says Roy, on the eve of his departure to the other side of the globe. Sixteen countries will be represented in two groups of eight. A preliminary round of seven games precede the medal round.<\/p>\n

The red and white band finished third at the last World Championship in 2009. Roy was not the appointment, who took part in the World Junior 2005. This fall, the Canadian senior team won the Pan American Championships, in the absence of Americans, however, were not favorites.<\/p>\n

Clifton Park in New York. This is where the Gremlins are based in New York, semi-professional team with whom Roy has signed a contract for a second season. Outfielder Quebec concluded last season with a batting average of .407, the second best of his club, six homers and 17 RBIs in 35 games.<\/p>\n

Fifteen are “in a class by itself,” according to Roy, and can be described as professional or semi-professional. Gremlins like Bruce Tanski, a residential construction contractor in Clifton Park. For the 2013 season.<\/p>\n

Saint-Gervais, Bellechasse in. This is where he learned his sport. And where it still plays in the league fastball Bellechasse, weekends of the summer. When it does not cap the Gremlins, Team Quebec or Canada’s. Last year, Roy has played a hundred games in total.<\/p>\n

Quebec and Rimouski. Residing in the capital, he went in the Bas-Saint-Laurent once a month as physical trainer of junior hockey club major location, Oceanic. Employee HardGym Gabriel Hardy, physical trainer des Remparts, Roy took care of the son of the CEO of Oceanic, Philippe Boucher, last summer.<\/p>\n

He says his work in the gym allows him to improve his own batting power without sacrificing consistency. Usually center fielder, he could be transferred to the left during the World Championship.<\/p>\n

Original story in French:<\/p>\n

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Qu\u00e9bec) Pendant que Mathieu Roy fait le tour du losange, sa carri\u00e8re fait le tour du monde. Le joueur de balle rapide s’appr\u00eate \u00e0 disputer le Championnat du monde. Voici son parcours en quatre destinations.<\/p>\n

Pendant que Mathieu Roy fait le tour du losange, sa carri\u00e8re fait le tour du monde. Le joueur de balle rapide s’appr\u00eate \u00e0 disputer le Championnat du monde. Voici son parcours en quatre destinations.<\/p>\n

Auckland, en Nouvelle-Z\u00e9lande. Le Mondial senior masculin de l’International Softball Federation s’y tient du 1er au 10 mars. Roy, 24 ans, sera le seul Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois et plus jeune joueur au sein de l’\u00e9quipe canadienne. Australiens, les champions en titre, N\u00e9o-Z\u00e9landais, vice-champions, Argentins, Japonais et V\u00e9n\u00e9zu\u00e9liens seront les puissances en pr\u00e9sence.<\/p>\n

\u00abNous sommes class\u00e9s parmi les cinq meilleures \u00e9quipes, mais on vise l’or\u00bb, assure Roy, \u00e0 la veille de son d\u00e9part pour l’autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 du globe. Seize pays seront repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s dans deux groupes de huit. Une ronde pr\u00e9liminaire de sept matchs pr\u00e9c\u00e9dera la ronde des m\u00e9dailles.<\/p>\n

La troupe unifoli\u00e9e avait termin\u00e9 troisi\u00e8me lors du dernier Championnat du monde, en 2009. Roy n’\u00e9tait pas du rendez-vous, lui qui a pris part au Mondial junior de 2005. Cet automne, l’\u00e9quipe canadienne senior a remport\u00e9 le Championnat panam\u00e9ricain, en l’absence des Am\u00e9ricains, qui n’\u00e9taient toutefois pas favoris.<\/p>\n

Clifton Park, dans l’\u00c9tat de New York. C’est l\u00e0 que sont bas\u00e9s les Gremlins de New York, l’\u00e9quipe semi-professionnelle avec laquelle Roy vient de signer un contrat pour une deuxi\u00e8me saison. Le voltigeur qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois a conclu la derni\u00e8re campagne avec une moyenne au b\u00e2ton de ,407, la deuxi\u00e8me meilleure de son club, six coups de circuit et 17 points produits en 35 matchs.<\/p>\n

\u00abToutes d\u00e9penses pay\u00e9es avec un petit salaire\u00bb, r\u00e9sume le traitement r\u00e9serv\u00e9 aux meilleurs joueurs de balle rapide venus des quatre coins de la plan\u00e8te pour s’aligner chaque \u00e9t\u00e9 dans l’International Softball Congress. Une cinquantaine de formations de partout en Am\u00e9rique du Nord participent aux diff\u00e9rents tournois.<\/p>\n

Une quinzaine sont \u00abdans une classe \u00e0 part\u00bb, au dire de Roy, et peuvent \u00eatre qualifi\u00e9es de professionnelles ou semi-professionnelles. Comme les Gremlins de Bruce Tanski, riche contracteur en construction domiciliaire de Clifton Park. Pour la saison 2013, Roy a obtenu que l’\u00e9quipe paie le transport et les d\u00e9penses de son amoureuse, qui habite Ottawa, aux diverses comp\u00e9titions.<\/p>\n

Saint-Gervais, dans Bellechasse. C’est l\u00e0 qu’il a appris son sport. Et o\u00f9 il joue encore dans la Ligue de balle rapide de Bellechasse, les fins de semaine de l’\u00e9t\u00e9. Quand il ne porte pas la casquette des Gremlins, de l’\u00c9quipe du Qu\u00e9bec ou de celle du Canada. L’an dernier, Roy a jou\u00e9 une centaine de matchs au total.<\/p>\n

Qu\u00e9bec et Rimouski. R\u00e9sidant de la capitale, il se rend dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent une fois par mois \u00e0 titre de pr\u00e9parateur physique du club de hockey junior majeur de l’endroit, l’Oc\u00e9anic. Employ\u00e9 du HardGym de Gabriel Hardy, le pr\u00e9parateur physique des Remparts, Roy s’est occup\u00e9 du fils du directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l’Oc\u00e9anic, Philippe Boucher, l’\u00e9t\u00e9 dernier.<\/p>\n

Il affirme que son travail en salle d’entra\u00eenement lui permet d’am\u00e9liorer sa propre puissance au b\u00e2ton sans pour autant n\u00e9gliger sa constance. D’ordinaire joueur de champ centre, il pourrait \u00eatre mut\u00e9 \u00e0 gauche durant le Championnat du monde. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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