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presents BEHIND

THE BENCH

Sean Boulerice and Mike Pettinella

The next year he joined forces
By Molly Kett
with Pettinella and they looked into
ean Boulerice has been involved entering some college tournaments
Sin hockey for quite some time. throughout Ontario. They entered
He refereed the Canadian University a number of these and were quite
National Championship in 1991, successful and this was basically
and the Centennial Cup, now known the beginning of what has become a
as the Royal Bank Cup, in that well-respected program throughout
same year. Boulerice refereed for the province.
nine years in the Ontario Hockey
The men’s team evolved very
League and three in the American quickly, and Boulerice says it
Hockey League. His refereeing also wasn’t long before they were
saw two years of professional roller
SLC Sharks Coaches Mike Pettinella and Sean Boulerice approached by a group of interested
hockey and, in 1993, he obtained Photo Submitted female students about coaching
his Level 6 referee certification, the them. They agreed that if there was

highest level achievable, in Hockey Technologist at St. Lawrence. The hockey, since back in the days of the enough interest, they would coach.
Canada. pair crossed paths when Boulerice SLC Cornwall Road Runners. Mike In 2005, St. Lawrence College’s
was refereeing in the American Pettinella played on that fi rst team
Now, Boulerice is a professor at female hockey began. Boulerice
St. Lawrence College in Cornwall. Hockey League and Pettinella was that I coached,” says Boulerice. “We and Pettinella have been coaching
working for the Cornwall Aces. played in a tri-campus tournament
He teaches accounting in their against the other two SLC campuses, both teams since. Along the way,
business program and coaches both Sharks Hockey began at St. Brockville and Kingston, and a few Boulerice was fortunate to see both
the men’s and women’s hockey Lawrence in 1997. “There was an exhibition games in Upper New his daughters pull on the SLC jersey
teams at the school. His co-coach, intramural league in existence but York State”. and skate for the Sharks. A quick
Mike Pettinella, is a Computer AV there was no longer any varsity Continued on page 23
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