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Meet
Coach Giles
Lascelle
Giles Lascelle has been involved with Women's
hockey at the local, regional and provincial levels. Teams under Lascelle
leadership have finished in 1st
place 4 straight years and have qualified for Ontario Provincial championships
in each of his seven years. Lascelle has an impressive record of 203-47-14,
including Ontario Provincial Championship Gold Medal, Ontario Provincial
Championship Bronze Medal, 3 Ottawa District Women's League Championships, 11
tournament Championships including the Connecticut Polar Bear tournament,
Brampton Easter Tournament and the Ottawa National Capital Competitive
tournament. In 2005-06 season, of the 212 teams that play in the Ottawa
District Women's Hockey League, his team was the only team that went undefeated
during regular and post season. These accomplishments were made despite having
one of the smallest women's associations in Ontario.
For his efforts, Lascelle was named as an associated coach for the 2006 Ontario
U-18 Team at the Canadian National Championships in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
Along with being a head
coach, Lascelle became President of Cornwall Girls Hockey Association and began
to build and transform the competitive program from A class to AA status, AA
being the highest division in Ontario Women's Hockey. It didn’t take long to be
successful at this level as Lascelle's team finished 3rd in
Ontario winning bronze medal.
The Cornwall Lady Typhoons Competitive program is now one of the top
associations in the country and quietly players are grabbing attention to many
college and university teams. Lascelle developed and formed the junior model for
Cornwall Girls Hockey. In 2 short years, the newly formed junior team has sent 7
players to preparatory schools, 5 players to universities, 2 players to Ontario
U18 team and 1 player to the USA U18 team.
Lascelle is very active with Canadian Hockey. He was
a co-owner of the Cornwall Major Junior A Hockey Club which has produced many
NHL players such as Doug Gilmour, Owen Nolan, and Dale Howerchuck, to name a few.
Lascelle has been involved with Youth Sports Program and Giles has been a power
skating and magic hands instructor for Huron
Hockey
School
for 20 years. Lascelle has also been educator at Hockey Coaching Clinics. He has
served on the recreation ice advisory committee and the new 4 pad ice arena
committee. Lascelle has also served as director of scheduling for the Ottawa
District Womens Hockey Association and as a representative official for Ontario
Women Hockey Association Playdown games.
A native Ontarian, Lascelle
played his minor competitive hockey in
Cornwall, Ontario. He played
Junior in Winchester
Ontario where he led his team
in scoring and was voted Most Valuable Player. Lascelle went on to play
University Hockey in
Montreal for the Concordia Stingers.
Lascelle served his junior and senior years as captain of the Concordia Stingers
and was team Most Valuable Player. In 1986, his team lost the Canadian
University National Finals to Mike Keenan’s University
of Toronto Blues.
Lascelle was chosen twice on the University Team All Star Squad. In 1986, he was
chosen to play on the University Select team that played against Team Canada
Olympic Team. Lascelle team members included Mike Babcock, Present Coach
of the Detroit Red Wings, who in conjunction played against many current NHL
Players. Lascelle went on to play professional hockey in
Olofstrom,
Sweden,
where he was chosen team Most Valuable Player. His Swedish team finished second
place, one point out of first place. That was a significant accomplishment since
the team had finished in 11th place
a year earlier.
Lascelle was born in July
1962 lives with his wife Kim and 4 children, Kayla, Jenna, Liam and Tia.
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