Sudbury's Kristine Lalonde has taken another
major step towards potentially making the womens' national
basketball team.
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Kristine Lalonde has earned another
opportunity at Canada Basketball's top development
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Lalonde, 13, has been selected to be part of
Canada Basketball's 2005-06 Centre for Performance Ontario
Program.
This is the second consecutive year Lalonde
was selected to participate in the prestigious program.
Lalonde has reached incredible heights over
the last year, which peaked when she helped Team Ontario win a
national midget championship in August.
The centre is a National Identification
Program where only 30 athletes, ages 12-18, are selected from
each province. There are five centres in Canada.
The program creates a clear pathway for
outstanding developmental athletes to be systematically
identified, developed, trained and monitored with standardized
national team curriculum.
Lalonde will travel to Toronto five times
over the next year to attend the centre and have extra
conditioning, weight training, log books, and basketball
homework as part of this program.
