Alec Taschereau

Alec Taschereau
Personal information
Nickname(s) Tasch
Born (1993-06-17) 17 June 1993
Toronto, Ontario
Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 88 kg (194 lb)
Sport
Country  Canada
Sport water polo
Updated on 19 August 2015.

Alec Taschereau (born 17 June 1993 in Toronto, Ontario) is a water polo player of Canada.

Career

Taschereau started playing water polo when he was 8 years old because he wanted to try a different aquatic sport other than swimming and diving. He began playing water polo with the Ottawa Titans Water Polo Club[1] before joining the junior national team in 2010. He helped Canada win a first ever gold medal at the junior Pan Am Games in 2010. In the fall of 2011 he moved to Calgary to be centralized with the senior national team. He made his FINA World Championship debut in 2013 after competing at the junior worlds in 2011. In 2014 Taschereau helped Canada to a best ever sixth place finish in the FINA Water Polo World League Super Final. He was part of the Canadian team at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships.[2]

Personal

His father is Joe D’Amata and his mother Christine. Taschereau lives in Ottawa. He studies full time Finance at the University of Calgary.

Notable results

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://waterpolo.ca/TeamPlayerBio26.aspx
  2. ↑ "BCN 2015 Canadian Men's Water Polo Team" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 August 2015.

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External links


  1. ↑ http://waterpolo.ca/TeamPlayerBio26.aspx
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