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South Branch Garage presents
“Game On” in South Glengarry
Meet our Athletes
Leo Bissonnette
Age: 9 (turning 10 in August)
Hometown: South Glengarry
School: Sainte Lucie
Grade: 4
Sports Energy’s Game On in South Glengarry
featured athlete for June is a talented young man
who has been playing soccer since he was four and
hockey since he was six.
“I love playing sports,” Leo Bissonnette explains,
“because they’re fun and help me stay active. I enjoy
being part of a team and making new friends. My
goal is to keep getting better and one day play at a
high level. In hockey, I’ve played various positions, but I always give my best effort on
the ice. In soccer, I play hard and love the action on the field.”
Leo’s extensive list of accomplishments includes 2024 MVP of his Tier U9 hockey team;
2025 Most Improved Player on his Rep B U11 hockey team; 2025 Playoff Champions
and Tournament Winners with his U11 hockey team; 2023 MVP of his Char-Lan soccer
team, and 2024 Soccer Tournament Champion with his old Blazers team.
“In the short and long term,” Leo says,” I want to become a chef and open my own
restaurant. Cooking is something I really enjoy, and I especially love baking as it makes
people happy. I’m also excited to join the Glengarry Hearts for the 2025 soccer season. I
can’t wait to catch a lot of fish this summer at my campsite!”
Diary of a Weightlifter - The Path to Extraordinary
By Thorin Gault ut of all my endeavours Winning a bunch of national swer I find in other areas of my
Oover my 51 years, the one championships, two Pan Am life that I have achieved some
that has garnered me the most championships, and finishing level of success. Relentless con-
attention has been weightlift- second in the world IS extraor- sistency.
ing. I find this strange, because dinary – even if it is as a mas- I just keep going. Through all
while I feel some pride for the ter’s athlete. the ups and downs, (I am cur-
success I have had in the sport, This got me thinking about rently experiencing a significant
there are quite a few accom- what has allowed me to have down), I refuse to quit. Oth-
plishments in my life that I see extraordinary results in weight- er guys come and go over the
as significantly more important. lifting. I started competing at years and while they are taking
I DO take weightlifting seri- the advanced age of 38. My breaks I am still working. That
ously but still see it as a ‘later in technique is not that great. I is the secret sauce.
life’ recreational sport. I don’t compete against men far more The great news is that this
treat masters’ athletics the same athletic than I am. What has means extraordinary is literal-
as I treated my baseball life as a allowed me to succeed and ly available to all of us in any
young man. On the other hand, I continue to move up the ranks domain. Decide what you want
understand why people outside around the world? to be extraordinary in your life,
my life perceive my weightlift- The only answer that I can start working and……. just
ing accolades as extraordinary. come up with is the same an- keep going.
