After finishing high school in his hometown of
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Molle attended
Simon Fraser University in
Burnaby, British Columbia. At and , he joined both the
wrestling team and the
football team at SFU, and quickly became a standout in both sports. In wrestling, Molle was a four-time NAIA champion. He was selected to represent Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling, but suffered a back injury shortly before the tournament that nearly ended his career. Nonetheless, only 18 days after surgery, Molle won a silver medal for Canada as a Super Heavyweight wrestler at the
1984 Olympics in
Los Angeles. American wrestler
Bruce Baumgartner defeated Molle to win the gold medal. Molle was drafted by the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers with the ninth overall pick of the
1985 CFL draft. On November 27, 1988, he hoisted a
Grey Cup as a member of the Blue Bombers' offensive line. He won another Grey Cup in
1990 and eventually became a captain of the Blue Bombers. On September 25, 2016, he was inducted into the Blue Bombers Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Simon Fraser University Hall of Fame (1990), the NAIA (
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Hall of Fame (1991), the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame (1992), the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame (1993) and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (1995). ==References==