According to TSN on Thursday, the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees have named Marcel Bellefeuille of Ottawa, Ontario as the head coach of the football program. This past season, Bellefeuille was the offensive line coach for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
Bellefeuille is actually returning to the Gee-Gees. From 1995 to 1997, he was an assistant coach with the University of Ottawa, and then from 1998 to 2000, Bellefeuille was the head coach of the Gee-Gees.
While being the University of Ottawa head coach, Bellefeuille was the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference Coach of the Year in 1999. That season the Gee-Gees had a perfect record of eight wins and zero losses, before losing 38-6 to the Laval Rouge et Or in the 1999 Dunsmore Cup. Then in 2000, Bellefeuille guided the Gee-Gees to a Vanier Cup championship, as the University of Ottawa defeated the University of Saskatchewan 42-39 in the Canadian university football championship game at SkyDome in Toronto.
Bellefeuille was the head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2008 to 2011. In four seasons, he had a record of 27 wins and 35 losses. Hamilton made the playoffs three times.
In addition to the Alouettes, Bellefeuille has also been an assistant coach for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Tiger-Cats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and British Columbia Lions in the CFL. He has also been an assistant coach for the Queen’s University Golden Gaels in Canadian University Football and the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.
