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His feats on the trampoline began to attract attention in Maillardville when Our Lady of Lourdes gym team was established in 1950.
Starting as a 12-year-old at the 1954 nationals, Neil won the junior mat tumbling title and recording a couple of Canadian firsts – including the first Canadian to perform the triple-twisting back somersault.
As a student at what was then Como Lake High School, Neil brought home a handful of medals from successive Canadian Senior Gymnastics championships in gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling.
He qualified for the Pan Am Games. Godin would later coach the national team.