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Lacrosse is more medicine than game for these high school students
2022-06-09
Letizia Gaibotti, a Grade 10 exchange student from Italy, said she joined the program to make some friends. "I didn't even know what lacrosse was," she said.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays each week, Michael Thompson becomes the favourite sight of a few dozen students at Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School.
The former professional lacrosse player helped launch an after-school program at the Cornwall, Ont., high school where students play and learn about lacrosse to earn school credits.
"The last couple years with COVID, a lot of kids lost credits being at home … not being able to finish up some of their work," said Thompson, who works as a cultural adviser at the school's Native Resource Centre.
While credits have brought some students to the school gymnasium or field to practise passing, restring sticks and burn some energy, that's not why many come back.
"It's more of a medicine than it is a game to us," said Grade 12 student Ronwaiewate Lazore, who's been a part of the program since it began in December.
Read the rest of this CBC article here.