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Leafsfan:
Tourism Student Wins Amazing Race Canada
with files from CTV
Celebrate an amazing accomplishment by dropping your pants? Sure, why not.
Which is what Tourism student Pete Schmalz and teammate Mikey Henry did when they were the first team to cross the finish line in the finale of Amazing Race Canada Season 2 on Sunday.
Best friends from Muskoka, Ont., the two 24 year olds will split $250,000 in prize money and each receives free flights on Air Canada for a year, a Chevrolet truck, and free gas for life from Petro-Canada.
Adventure Studies faculty member Ross Cloutier taught Schmalz in a number of third- and fourth-year classes and believes more good things are ahead for Pete.
“He is an excellent student and to win Amazing Race Canada is no surprise to anyone at TRU,” says Cloutier. “He is an original, friendly, outgoing, visionary and will accomplish much within the Canadian adventure tourism industry.”
Guided by their motto of “Long hair, don’t care”, the Schmalz-Henry combo exhibited the right amount of calm-under-pressure to guide them through the tricky and demanding challenges that make up the long season that is Amazing Race Canada.
Oddly enough, Schmalz and Henry never won any of the legs except for the last one, though they did have a few podium finishes as they steadily improved along the way. Meanwhile, the team that wound up finishing second had seven first-place finishes out of a possible 11 leading up to Sunday’s finale.
Source:http://www.castanet.net/news/Campus-Life-Kamloops/123436/Tourism-Student-Wins-Amazing-Race-Canada
Leafsfan:
Radio interview on what's next for the two:
http://moosefm.com/cfbks/news/next-up-for-seguin-winners-of-amazing-race-canada/
Leafsfan:
Another radio interview with the winners.
Mickey and Pete called into the Wayne and Jayne Show today to discuss their win!
http://kootenays.myezrock.com/Blogs/ChrisKuchar/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10681976
Leafsfan:
Mickey and Pete, and life after Amazing Race Canada
PARRY SOUND – Seguin’s Mickey Henry and Pete Schmalz are heading on to new adventures.
The Amazing Race Canada winners picked up their new Silverado trucks last week at the Bayview Chevrolet Buick GMC dealership in Parry Sound. The trucks were part of the duo’s prize, which also included $250,000, gas for life from Petro-Canada, and free airfare with Air Canada for a year
After show
Amazing Race Canada’s final episode and after-show aired on September 21, where the duo drove off in trucks, but that, said Schmalz, was for television.
“We got in our trucks, everyone saw that, and we drove about 50 feet and hopped out and that was the last time we saw them until today,” said Schmalz.
Instead, the two continued to drive their decades-old cars until collecting the keys to two new trucks last Wednesday.
Now with a truck, Henry said he had firewood to haul and Schmalz said they’re finally going to collect a mini-skateboard ramp that’s been on their to-do list all summer.
“Look at all the babes we can fit in there,” said Schmalz of the four-door truck.
Since the final episode and Monday morning show’s interviews, the two have been pretty low key. Henry stayed home and did a bit of wakeboarding and Schmalz headed north to try his hand at moose hunting.
As of last week they had plans to visit Canada’s Wonderland and maybe start a travel blog.
“We’re going to leave some time soon to go places,” said Henry.
With free airfare, Schmalz said, in his trademark laid-back tone, that they’re going, “anywhere we want.”
“We have to be back and forth because we have stuff to do in Canada, media and stuff,” he said.
The duo will also be on an upcoming Marilyn Denis show getting makeovers. It was a suggestion posted on the show’s Facebook page two days after their win.
The two Seguin boys said they have been enjoying their time in the limelight.
Source:http://www.muskokaregion.com/news-story/4925928-mickey-and-pete-and-life-after-amazing-race-canada/
WindsorSue:
Mickey and Pete will be on The Marilyn Denis Show (CTV, 10 AM) on Friday, November 7....getting MAKEOVERS!!!
Here is the "after" pic, posted on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/TheAmazingRaceCanada/photos/a.160006017518960.1073741828.141455796040649/317399511779609/?type=1&theater
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