You might be aware that Charline Labonte, the Canadian women's hockey team goalie,, plays in the CIS with the McGill Martlets.
The Windsor Lancers have the next-best thing to an Olympic hockey gold medallist: Their lineup now boasts defenceman Frida Nevalainen, who was on the silver medal-winning Swedish team in Turin. The name is admittedly new to me, but the memory of tearing up in February 2006 when Sweden upset Team USA in that semi-final shootout at the Olympics is not. You know me, I am typically one-quarter overjoyed by Swedish sports triumphs, plus I was on emotional overload from some personal stuff that week.
Nevalainen, 20, has already played a few games for the Lancers, but was introduced to the media earlier this week with fellow international student-athletes Sasha Lazic of Serbia (men's basketball) and Iva Peklova (women's b-ball) and Johanna Wernerssson (women's hockey) from the Czech Republic. Crazy.
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