Samir Chahine joined the York coaching staff in 2016 to work with the offensive line and reunite with head coach Warren Craney, who he worked alongside with the junior national team. Chahine was the offensive line coach for Team Canada in 2014, helping the squad to a silver-medal finish at the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) U19 world championships.
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He returns to the CIS after previously spending five seasons with McGill University from 1993-97. He was a three-time OQIFC all-star and is the only McGill football player to merit CIAU all-Canadian status three times (1995-97). He also competed in track and field for the Redmen, winning four Quebec conference championships in the shot put before graduating with a degree in physical education in 1998. He was inducted into the McGill Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Chahine was a second-round selection (11th overall) by the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1998 Canadian Football League (CFL) draft and spent eight seasons in the league with five different teams before retiring and becoming a high school teacher and football coach at Villanova College in King City, Ont.
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Additional coaching experience includes serving as the head coach of the Bergamo Lions, a pro team in Italy, in 2008 and one season as the offensive line coach with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in 2009.
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