St. Lazare Stallions
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| Park President: Anson Williams. | |||
| Founded | 2000 | ||
| Region | Saint-Lazare Saint-Lazare, Quebec Saint-Lazare, also known as Saint-Lazare-de-Vaudreuil, is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the Regional County Municipality of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.... , Vaudreuil-Dorion, Rigaud, Hudson and surrounding areas |
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| Teams | Atom, Mosquito, Pee-wee, Bantam, Midget Junior. |
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The St. Lazare Football Organization joined the QBFL Quebec Bantam Football League - Teams :Bill Allan Division#North Shore Lions#St. Lazare Stallions#St. Laurent Spartans#Laurentian Wildcats#Lasalle Warriors#Sun Youth Hornets----Earl De La Perralle Division#Ile-Perrot Western Patriots#Lakeshore Cougars... in 2004. |
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The St. Lazare football organization was founded to bring Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
to areas outside of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
. It fields teams at the atom (8-9 year olds), mosquito (10-11 year olds), pee-wee (12-13 year olds), bantam (14-15 year olds) and midget (16-17 year olds) levels which contend for trophies annually. In 2008, titans (5-7 years old) teams and a junior (18-22 years old) team were added.
City of St. Lazare
Saint-LazareSaint-Lazare, Quebec
Saint-Lazare, also known as Saint-Lazare-de-Vaudreuil, is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the Regional County Municipality of Vaudreuil-Soulanges....
itself is a very young town, not in regards to the town itself but rather the people that inhabit it.
Many middle to upper class families reside here, most of which are just starting out with children. Notable for its abundance of wildlife and heavily forested areas which surround continuously growing residential developments, St-Lazare has, in just a few years, grown to become a thriving city with a population of around 17,000 people. It is located just west of the island of Montreal, about 30 minutes from the Ontario border.
Midget team
The midget AAA Stallions team is the highest level of competition (junior team has been added in 2008) that a Stallions player can reach. The midget level team was awarded to St. Lazare after one successful inaugural bantam level season which saw the bantam team go 11-3 overall, ultimately reaching the Presidents Cup, where they lost to the Laval Centre-Sud Cowboys 49-35. The first year midget team, under head coach Ray Gaston, would go on to have a regular season 5-5 record. The Stallions made a determined run in the playoffs, going on to the Jack Simpson cup game, held at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium at McGill UniversityMcGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, home to the Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes
The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...
. Here, they would be defeated by the Joliette Pirates, 36-14. The current 2006 midget team is headlined by a majority of the roster that brought the inaugural bantam Stallions all the way to the Presidents Cup finals in 2004. They finished the regular season 8-2, tied for first with 3 other teams and, following the tie-breaking procedure, finished a respectable third behind the Laurentian Wildcats and the St. Hubert Rebels. The Stallions went on to win the Jack Simpson Cup on November 10th, 2006 in their second year of competition, defeating the Greenfield Park Packers 28-23.