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Dana Grant Looks Back at Induction

into the Hall of Fame, 2004

By Christine Ouellet matched.
In 1996, Dana teamed up with
he 2004 Hall of Fame title was Marjolaine Mineau from Chambly, QC.
Tawarded to the young 27-year- For several years, he trained regularly
old Dana Grant, a dance figure skating with the Olympic Champions, Paul and
athlete, the second youngest athlete to be Isabel Duchesnay in Boucherville and
inducted into the Cornwall Hall of Fame. Julien Lalonde. With Cirque du Soleil,
Like many parents of young hockey he worked on technical aspects of dance,
players, the Grants registered their young such as how to lift your partner so to
boy in skating lessons so he could learn avoid injuries.
how to skate, and eventually become The pair’s efforts were rewarded
a good hockey player. Throughout his with several medals won in provincial
childhood, Dana played and trained competitions. In Vaudreuil, QC they
in both sports, but at age seventeen, won a silver medal in the Junior Dance
he decided to put hockey aside and division at the Sectional Competition.
concentrate on figure skating. Then at the Ontario Divisional

Dana had joined the Cornwall Skating competitions, they won another silver
Club and trained in figure skating at medal. At the Canadian Championships
the Si Miller and Ed Lumley arenas. At in Vancouver in February 1997, the duo
age seven, he was paired with his first won fourth place which pitchforked
partner: Tracy Laurin from Cornwall. them to the international level.
Their talent was recognized and in 1985, At age twenty-one, Dana left the
and for two subsequent years, Dana Juniors to join the Senior Dance Division.
was named the club’s Most Improved In 1998, he and Marjolaine were invited
Beginner. to participate in the International
The duo competed throughout Ontario Championship in Oberstdorf, Germany.
and medals were adding up. The two They also trained and competed in Marjorie Mineau and Dana Grant, August 1998 - Obertsdorf, Germany.
skated together until Dana out-grew Helsinki, Finland with other Olympian ISU Senior International Competition, October 1999 - Helsinki, Finland
Tracy physically and they became mis- Continued on page 36 Photo Submitted

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