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As the proud dad of a 2-year-old, it is safe to say that the Christmas season is alive and well in our home. My wife and I are constantly reminding Gabriel that he needs to be a good boy and to be honest, threatening him that if he is not good, Santa won’t bring him presents. Parenting 101 if you ask me :)

In her second year on the swim team, Simone Ruf shows the grit and determination needed to compete at the highest level.

For the third year in a row, the Spartans are travelling back up Interstate 91 with hardware in hand.

Another sparking gem of a game!

Anqi Peng is a focused grade 10 student from Montreal

It has been an impressive season for varsity girls hockey goalie Julia McLellan, who sports a record of 13-3-1 so far this year with three shutouts and an outstanding goals-against average of 1.11.

In running their winning streak to a season’s best 10 in a row, the Stanstead College Varsity Girls Spartans came up short of advancing to the semi-final of the Two Nations Cup in Brampton, Ontario last weekend

The Stanstead College Spartans Varsity Girls Hockey Team ran their record to 13-6-1 with 4 wins in NAPHA League play.

This week’s Athlete of the Week is a quiet person, so quiet that if you pass her in the hallway you will never guess how fierce she is on a basketball court.

Awarded this week to, Patricio Suarez for his continued participation, effort and focus in class.

As a veteran shooting guard for the senior girls basketball team, Emily Willis could not have started the 2018-19 season much better than she has.

Head of School Michael Wolfe is pleased to release the list of students who have achieved academic success for Term 1 between September and November 8. For their efforts, these students have earned a place on the Academic Honours List, the Head's List and the Chair's List.

A strange horn sounds to signal the start of the game, deep bass, drawn out, like a foghorn. “What, are we on the Titanic?” says Alex Smith.

We’re not sure what this week’s Athlete of the Week did over the summer vacation, but Felix Filiatrault has returned this year stronger and more dynamic in all areas of the ice.

As the Varsity Boys Hockey Spartans head to their first MPHL weekend in Burlington, Vt., it’s time to look at who’s on the team.

Penalty kicks are among the most stressful moments in all of sports, especially in sudden-death playoffs, and especially for the goalie. But this week’s Diego Badillo Hernandez doesn’t shy away from pressure. Instead, this young man thrives on pressure.

Grade 10 students presented 26 experiments at the annual Science Fair Thursday evening. Prizes were presented Friday morning.

Every successful soccer team needs solid defence, which usually means four defenders at the back. But thanks to AOTW Tamara Wood-Downey and her two defensive teammates, Sophia Farfan and Joliane Legault, this year’s junior girls soccer team has been able to outnumber teams in the midfield by playing with just three defenders.

On the weekend of October 19-21, the Stanstead Varsity Girls Spartans experienced their worst weekend (results-wise) in quite a while as we lost 4 of 5 in Stowe, Vermont.

At the bantam soccer level, the “NOT ME” monster usually comes out on the first day of practice, i.e. “Who wants to play goalie?” “NOT ME!”

It was a solid weekend for the Spartans varsity girls hockey team as we continue to get quality contributions from the entire team.

The Stanstead College Varsity Boys Hockey Spartans will take to the ice this weekend in Lake Placid, New York against the Northwood School Huskies.

The Varsity Girls Hockey Spartans went 4-0 at the JWHL Showcase at Merrimack College in Andover, Ma. this past weekend.

Last year, an injury kept Rosemarie Ladouceur from being able to compete in cross-country running. This year, she is back as a significant force on the team, putting in the time and extra effort to train and showing up to perform at meets.

Jayden Mullens from the league-leading junior boys soccer team is this week’s Athlete of the Week for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is his leadership on the field.

Despite a loaded schedule of 5 games in 4 days, Kenya Desautels played almost every minute of every game, and played them with intensity and heart that was second to none.

The new Stanstead College website has been recognized for excellence from the Web Marketing Association (WMA).

Stanstead College Head of School Michael Wolfe joined trustees Judith Cowen and Ellen Bounsall along with students and faculty this morning to break ground for a new residence exclusively for Grade 12 students.

The 2018-19 school year began Wednesday at Stanstead College with the arrival of new students, with returning students coming back to campus Thursday.

Rina Takahashi of Tokyo, Japan, is the winner of Stanstead College’s Pitcher Prize Saturday, the school’s top prize awarded to the student who has exerted the greatest influence for good.

For the second year, Trevor Grasby of Holland Landing, Ont. won the Donald Ross MVP Trophy for senior boys rugby at the annual Spring Athletic Assembly, held Wednesday evening in Centenary Church.

It was a good week for Stanstead College athletics, with a clean sweep in rugby playoff championships.

In the last week, the senior girls rugby team, in dominant fashion, completed ETIAC league play (last Wednesday at MVR) and participated in the ETIAC playoffs (Monday at BCS). Over the course of this pivotal week, Mackenzy St-Pierre established herself as the most dominant kicker in the league (and probably out of all opponents we have played in 10s, 12s, 7s and 15s).

Stanstead College is pleased to announce the hiring of Corie Jacobson as assistant coach for the Varsity Girls Hockey Spartans.

Running for the first Stanstead College track team in 23 years, Mariane Picard seized the opportunity to represent herself, her teammates and her school with determination and guts in two grueling running competitions this past week.

Friday, the senior boys traveled to Concordia University – Loyola Campus to compete in the Greater Montreal Athletic Association (GMAA) 7s rugby tournament. The boys are no strangers to this tournament, having won it in the past and losing in the finals last year to host Loyola High School.

If this young man ever needs a nickname to describe his value to the lacrosse team, it may well have to be “The Mailman,” because Caleb always delivers.

The Junior Boys Rugby teams travelled to BCS for the first mini-tourney of the year May 1 as play-off champions looking to repeat the success of last season.

In the most important event of the Badminton season, the Galt Invitational Tournament, Shu Shu and Annie Tang brought their best.

Stanstead College is pleased to announce that veteran coach and teacher Bernie Pimm has joined the school as head coach of the Varsity Girls Hockey Spartans.

With only eight official practices before the start of the season, a lot was asked of this young man at this past weekend’s RugbyFest in Rothesay, New Brunswick.

The Senior Boys Rugby Spartans were perfect during their annual drip to Rothesay-Netherwood School in New Brunswick for the annual RugbyFest, winning the Bonnyburn (B) Division.

Lisa Smith, head of our Math/Science Department, recently announced the top achievers among our students writing the annual University of Waterloo Math Contest.

After several months of planning, training and building, we are proud to present you the new Stanstead College website. We hope you will find the site easier to navigate with more options and content than ever. Feel free to explore, but to get you to some important places, here's what you need to know:

With the snow set to leave the vicinity hopefully in the very near future, the spring athletics season officially gets under way this week.

Headmaster Michael Wolfe is pleased to release the list of students who have achieved academic success for Term 2 between November and March break. For their efforts, these students have earned a place on the Academic Honours List, the Headmaster's List and the Chairman's List.

MVP hockey trophies were shared for both varsity boys and girls Wednesday evening as the winter athletic season drew to an official close with the annual Winter Athletic Assembly.

The junior boys played one last tournament in Montreal, the Davis. There were six boys teams in the tournament this year vying for the provincial banner.

After a long and thorough process, Stanstead College has received full re-accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).

Students in Grades 7, 9 and 9 presented the results of their experiments at the annual Junior Science Fair Thursday evening. Congratulations to the winners:

Bonjour mes amis de basket.I am a little behind on my write-ups so, in this issue of “Duane’s Diary”, I will combine our last four contests into one great big beautiful report. Here we go!

Games like this are why we joined RSEQ Div II in the first place. The opposing teams are always tough, the opposing players work their tails off and are passionate about basketball, and the opposing coaches are smart.

This year’s team has a huge mix of talent, age and experience (3 x grade 7, 2 x grade 8, 3 x grade 9 and 4 x grade 10). There is no single dominant player and each brings a particular strength.

Stanstead College and the Pat Burns Arena are pleased to be hosting this week a group of young hockey players from China.

Over the years hockey, has intertwined itself into the fabric that is my family. Long before I began coaching hockey, I have vivid memories of spending one week every summer in Fort Erie, Ontario at the Leisure Plex.

It wasn’t pretty this past Friday in Cowansville, but your Spartans did enough to clinch the coveted ETIAC regular season banner with a 41-13 victory over an over-matched but hard working Massey-Vanier team.

Firing on all cylinders, your Spartans looked to keep their hot streak going this past Wednesday against their sister school down the road, BCS.

Grade 12 student Alex Bimm from Montgomery, Vt. has been named one of more than 4,500 candidates in the 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

Stanstead 48 vs Richmond (2) 40
Challenged by tired legs and weary minds, from the opening tip I could tell that this was going to be a tough one for us.

On Tuesday November 21, the Varsity Boys Hockey team travelled to Middlebury, Vermont and played on the campus of Middlebury College.

After a dominant performance at the BCS Invitational two days earlier, this past Monday’s tilt vs Triolet was going to be the true yardstick for how far we’ve come. Last December 8 they basically ran us out of their building, shellacking us 42-16.

Reflections – Sipping at the Stream of Consciousness… musings, observations and the occasional insight from our gold medal performance (St-George’s 38-12, Sacred Heart 50-22, ECS 43-10, KES 40-11) at the BCS Invitational Tournament this past weekend…

Students in Grade 10 displayed the results of their experiments at the annual Science Fair Thursday evening. 

Veteran athlete Kayla Ouellet of Stanstead won her second MVP trophy of the year at the Spring Athletic Assembly held at Centenary Church Wednesday evening.

Stanstead College distributed pins and certificates during Monday's first Academic Assembly of the yearto those in the first term who earned top marks.