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Connor Primeau and Brandon Labelle:

From Cornwall to Ottawa U Lacrosse

By Molly Kett has played a number of sports, but the previous years, but from day one
has played hockey and lacrosse of the 2014 season, we were focused
onnor Primeau and Brandon competitively his whole life. on doing everything we could to
CLabelle are two local athletes win the provincial championship.
who are both attending and playing “I played three seasons with I could not have imagined a better
lacrosse for the University of the Celtics, while missing the full way to end my junior career than
Ottawa. season, in what would have been winning the provincial title with a
my second season with the Celtics,
Primeau is studying Kinesiology. lot of the guys that I had grown up
with a concussion,” said Labelle. “I
He started playing hockey at a young playing lacrosse with.”
had some great times playing with
age and took up lacrosse as an off- the Cornwall Celtics. One memory Primeau enjoyed his time growing
season sport years later. Primeau up and playing sports in Cornwall.
that sticks out in my mind is winning
grew up playing box lacrosse and the OLA provincial championships “Growing up in Cornwall was great.
played field lacrosse for the first in my final year. We had a great I would always look forward to

time in university. the summer and playing lacrosse.
leadership group that was either in
Although we never had many new
Labelle studies Human Kinetics their fi nal year of junior lacrosse
kids at tryouts, we always managed
with the hopes of becoming a or close to it. We had been very Ottawa U Teammates Connor
physical education teacher. Labelle successful during the regular season Primeau, Paul Legacy and to have a strong team. Playing
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