Student Council Elections 2025/2026

Shannon signs with Windsor

By Bernie Puchalski: BP Sports Niagara - March 7, 2025

Jacob Shannon’s quest to play football at the post secondary level began to gain traction last summer while playing for the Niagara Spears varsity football team.

“Coming out of Grade 12, I had a couple people who talked to me and I went to camps at Queen’s in Grade 11 and Grade 12. It kind of happened all at once,” the 12B student at Saint Michael said.

After three or four games of the Spears’ season, six or seven universities expressed an interest in him and the 6-foot-3, 265-pound defensive lineman went on a bunch of game day visits.

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Mustang captain comes up clutch

By Bernie Puchalski: BP Sports Niagara - February 26, 2025

When the season was on the line, the Saint Michael Mustangs looked to their captain Lucas Nalezinski.

The Grade 12 student didn’t disappoint, scoring twice, assisting on the winning goal and helping his team kill the final seconds on the clock as the Mustangs edge the Blessed Trinity Thunder 4-3 in the Niagara Catholic Athletic Association AAA boys hockey final Wednesday in Grimsby.

“That is your role as captain,” said Nalezinski, who played AAA hockey for the Southern Tier Admirals from age 10 until quitting last year. “When your team gets down 2-0, you have to put your team on your back.”

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Millian commits to Voltigeurs

By Bernie Puchalski: BP Sports Niagara - February 25, 2025

Zoe Millian couldn’t envision hanging up her skates.

The 17-year-old, Grade 12 student at Saint Michael Catholic High School had planned to give up hockey and concentrate on her studies as she entered her post-secondary studies next year, but after playing for Team France at the IIHF U18 World Championships in Budapest earlier this year, she began to have second thoughts.

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