Kristine Lalonde has once again been selected for the Under 15 Ontario Provincial Basketball Team. This is the third time Lalonde has been named to the provincial team. As an 11-year-old player competing in the Bantam Development Program (BDP), a provincial team was selected from over 120 girls from the 12 regional teams in the province but did not travel anywhere to compete.  As a 12 year old, Lalonde competed in the Ontario Summer Games once again as a member of the North BDP team. No provincial team was selected that year. Last summer was the first time the Lasalle Secondary Student competed nationwide when she was selected as a 13-year-old.
Playing as shooting guard, she was the leading scorer and
three-point shooter for the provincial squad as Ontario won
gold at the National Championships in Calgary last summer.
Coached by Caitlin Blackadder and Clare Beatty as a member of
the North Midget Development Program (MDP) team, Lalonde
competed at the Basketball Ontario provincial tournament
recently held at York University in Toronto. Lalonde, along
with 14 other girls, were selected from 144 girls representing
12 regions in the province. 
At five-foot-nine, Lalonde is the only returning member to the team this year, including the coaches and will play both the point guard position and shooting guard for the team. The first training camp was held at the Royal Military College in Kingston this past weekend where three more girls were cut to narrow it to the final 12-person roster. The team will have two more 3-4 day training camps of three practices a day, in Kingston and Hamilton. The girls' U-15 and U-17 Provincial teams hope to repeat as gold medalists when they travel together to Sherbrooke, Quebec to compete at the National Championships from August 1-5th.
