La Salle Secondary School
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- See also Lasalle Secondary SchoolLasalle Secondary SchoolLasalle Secondary School is located in the New Sudbury neighbourhood of Greater Sudbury, Ontario. It offers both the English and French Immersion programs. The school is part of the...
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La Salle Secondary School is a high school located in Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
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. La Salle is a medium-sized school, consisting of an average student count of 700. The school schedule is composed of four courses and MSIP. The student body is predominantly composed of students from the adjacent suburbs, the military base
CFB Kingston
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, as well as many rural communities located along or near Highway 2
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Daily schedule
The four courses are the same as any public high school in the Kingston region, with the exception of lasting an hour compared to the usual hour and fifteen minutes. The fifteen minutes from each class is added on to MSIP(Multi-Subject Instructional Period). This creates the five period day. This class is meant as an extra hour to work on class work, talk to teachers and allow students to interact with students from different grades.Athletics
La Salle's team colours are black and gold. Their athletic teams are all known as the "Black Knights". The school competes in many sports including cross-country, soccer, hockey, rugby, football, basketball, cheerleading, curling, field hockey, badminton, skiing, skateboarding, and tennis. La Salle Secondary School is a AA-level school, a designation determined by enrollment levels. This creates a disadvantage in athletics; however their senior girls' basketballBasketball
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team won KASSAA in 2007 and 2008, and won the EOSSAA AA championship in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Their Senior boys' rugby
Rugby football
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team has also been very competitive, winning KASSAA, going undefeated for three straight seasons in 1999, 2000, 2001, also winning back to back years in 2007 and 2008, and winning AA EOSSAA in 2006, 2007, and 2008. The Senior boys' football
Canadian football
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team has been the Kingston AA representative in provincials for the past couple of years, with their best finish coming in 2008 in the EOSSAA final, before losing to a strong Gananoque Trojan team.
The LaSalle Black Knights play all of their home Football and Rugby games on Berk Brean Field. Named after former Head Coach Berkeley Brean, who coached Football and Rugby at the school in the 1980's and 1990's.
Notable alumni
- Matt McQuillanMatt McQuillanMatt McQuillan is a Canadian professional golfer. He has played on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour for several seasons, since 2003, and won one tournament there. McQuillan earned 2011 playing privileges on the PGA Tour with a strong performance in stage three of Q-School, on his first attempt...
, Professional Golfer - Taylor RobertsonTaylor RobertsonTaylor Robertson is a Canadian football guard for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2003 CFL Draft by the Calgary Stampeders. He played college football at Central Florida.Robertson has also been a member of the Philadelphia...
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Player - Matt KirkMatt KirkMatt Kirk is a Canadian football defensive tackle for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Ottawa Renegades in the 2004 CFL Draft...
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Player - Jay McClementJay McClement-International:-External links:...
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Player - Bryan Allen, NHLNational Hockey LeagueThe National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
Player - Joe Montgomery, Former Ontario's Strongest Man 2007