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These stories related to the world of local sports and the people involved in them are made possible through the continued support of Snow Squad as part of our Community Leaders Program.

 

Pursuit: Talented Sudbury golfer taking her talents to U.S.

Pursuit: Talented Sudbury golfer taking her talents to U.S.

Lea Lemieux has won multiple city championships and Northern Ontario titles, and looks to continue to grow her game when she steps onto the course for the Western Michigan Broncos in NCAA play next year
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Pursuit: Jesse Plante’s secret talent for skeleton

Pursuit: Jesse Plante’s secret talent for skeleton

By his own admission, sports are fun but practice is not; that is until Plante’s mother signed him up for RBC Training Ground where he was ranked among the top 100 undiscovered talents in the country
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Pursuit: Marathon monster MacLean embraces her ‘sub-elite’ status

Pursuit: Marathon monster MacLean embraces her ‘sub-elite’ status

Sure she’s a former national team cross-country skier, but Alannah MacLean’s busy role as a doctor in residency presents training challenges for this marathon runner, though that didn’t stop her from clocking 2:48:32 at the Berlin Marathon
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Pursuit: GSPS constable runs 167-km in 25 hours to win Backyard Ultra

Pursuit: GSPS constable runs 167-km in 25 hours to win Backyard Ultra

Const. Michael Rouleau started running during the pandemic when all the gyms closed and found that he has a peculiar ability to run particularly long distances. That talent clinched him the win during Sudbury first Backyard Ultra marathon this past weekend
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Pursuit: The autodidactic golfing life of Vic Whissell

Pursuit: The autodidactic golfing life of Vic Whissell

Vic Whissell, like a mad scientist of golf, has never taken a lesson, but he’s spent decades working on his swing, and helping others get the best out of their own game
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Pursuit: Three-generation Palladino legacy continues in local soccer

Pursuit: Three-generation Palladino legacy continues in local soccer

The Palladino name is strong in Sudbury’s soccer scene. Now, Noah Palladino, 15, carries on the tradition of his father, Dan, and his grandfather, Eddy, who helped lead the Italia Flyers to the 1964 Eastern Canadian title
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Pursuit: Highlighting Sudbury’s Olympic foursome

Pursuit: Highlighting Sudbury’s Olympic foursome

The Nickel City sent four people to the Olympics in Paris this year. Sportswriter Randy Pascal highlights their efforts and the roads that brought them to the pinnacle of their sports
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Pursuit: Sports, psychology and finding our gifts

Pursuit: Sports, psychology and finding our gifts

Renowned Sudbury sports psychologist Dr. Robert Schinke offers eight steps to success in life and in sport in his new book, ‘Gifted’
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Pursuit: Blasting out of the blocks with Melina Doiron

Pursuit: Blasting out of the blocks with Melina Doiron

Relatively new to the sport of spring, the Grade 10 Lo-Ellen Park Secondary student discovers she has a deep well of natural speed
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Pursuit: Catching up with Cubs’ star Oliver Smith

Pursuit: Catching up with Cubs’ star Oliver Smith

A junior hockey veteran at 21, the young man who helped his team to the NOJHL title this season, looks back on his career and forward to the Centennial Cup and beyond
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