Hockey Spartans on the Move

In addition to the girls at Worlds, several boys Spartans have advanced to the QMJHL, one of Canada’s premier junior hockey leagues and a key steppingstone to collegiate hockey.

Rosalie Tremblay is Stanstead College girls hockey's most decorated player in our history. She is the first player to win the MVP of the Hockey Canada Nationals, while leading Team Quebec to its first-ever gold medal in history as their captain. As our SC Spartans Captain, Rosalie is on her way to breaking Stanstead College's all-time points record, as she currently sits with 35 goals and 40 assists for 75 points in just 36 games. With our team's 30 wins at Christmas, ranked 4^th overall in North America, despite playing the toughest schedule at our level, Rosalie continues to lead us in what is becoming one of our best year's ever.

 

Talk about a resilience. Laurie Aubin is the model of using adversity to get better and stronger. Last year, she suffered a long-term injury from a torn retina that could have permanently affected her eyesight in one eye and impacted her hockey career for the rest of her life. Despite this distinct possibility, Laurie remained positive, proactive and productive in her recovery, grateful for every opportunity presented to her. Despite missing last year's nationals for Team Quebec,  Laurie returned to play in January, just in time to play hero in scoring the OT winner versus Limoilou at the prestigious Tournoi Quebec City. Laurie fought all the way back, becoming one of our top players by the JWHL playoffs in March while earning an invite to Team Canada's U18 Camp in August. Unfortunately, Laurie was released from Team Canada, and did not play in the summer exhibition series vs. Team USA in Lake Placid. Once again, by staying positive, digging in, pushing to get a little better every day, Laurie earned her way back on to Team Canada with an exceptional performance with Spartans linemates Rosalie Tremblay and Zoe Charland. This trio has arguably become the best line in hockey at our level. Laurie's story will become folklore for our SC Spartans program—she is living evidence of what we can accomplish by staying positive and productive! 

 

As her coach, I am particularly proud of Antonia Thume's accomplishment-earning a spot on Team Germany U18 for the upcoming IIHF Division I World Championships. After this summer's National Team Camp, she and I were informed by the German U18 National Coach that Antonia was "on the outside looking in" as far as earning a spot on this year's team. Antonia took the message like a professional, came to Stanstead and challenged me to work with her to help ensure that she made this lifetime opportunity of playing for her country. I have to say, it wasn't easy. Some of the things that she needed to work on were difficult to address—these things required total and complete honesty. However, given her amazing attitude, Antonia dug in and worked tirelessly on her weaknesses, becoming one of our best defensive players this year. She travelled to Europe for a national team event and played much better. She continued this momentum by playing great for us against some of the best teams at our level. In the end, she made it, she will play a leadership role for a young Team Germany U18. We couldn't be more proud of her! 

 

Emma Lintner continues to thrive as an SC Spartan and leader for Team Austria U18. Given her constant work ethic, Emma gets better every day and shows up in the most competitive moments. Emma has huge potential to become an impact player in the female game. As she works through a prolonged illness and continues to get healthier, I have no doubt that Emma will have a positive impact for Team Austria and the SC Spartans in the second half of our season!