Education
He attended Purdue University on a full football/wrestling scholarship before transferring to Simon Fraser University.
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Dan Payne
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Career
He played football and wrestled at Simon Fraser University. During his career, he also played for Hamilton and Montreal. Prior to his football career, he competed as an amateur wrestler, winning two National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national championships.
Achievements
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He was a member of four Grey Cup-winning teams: the Saskatchewan Roughriders (1989), the Toronto Argonauts (1996, 1997), and the British Columbia Lions (2000). In international competition, he won bronze at the 1987 Pan American Games before representing Canada in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where he competed in both the freestyle (6th place) and Greco-Roman (13th place) competitions in the 130 kg division.
