Sometime last year I was at the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre for a Minor Hockey game.
The Owen Sound Peewees were playing somebody, and in all honesty, the Owen Sound squad got shelled.
However, I was impressed with the Junior Attack netminder who hung in there all day and faced a huge number of shots.
The goalie was Briten Marcell, now a Minor Bantam netminder, now a goaltender with the Waterloo Wolves ” AAA ” program and now converting his loonies into Japanese yen for a marvellous hockey and cultural opportunity.
Car Manufacturer Toyota staged a Challenge between the Minor Bantam teams from Waterloo, Kitchener & Cambridge with the winning entry earning the right to go to Japan during the March Break in 2014 for hockey & cultural exchange.
The Wolves went 3-1 & 1 and took the Toyota Challenge by blanking Kitchener in the final.
This is an amazing opportunity for Briten Marcell, a Grade 8 student at Derby Public School.
Living in Desboro, attending Derby and playing hockey in Waterloo means travel, travel and more travel and a heightened sense of time management.
But getting bombarded in Owen Sound, racking up the miles and grinding out his fitness classes at OT, suddenly has transformed into a tremendous Japanese experience on the horizon for Briten Marcell
I’m Fred Wallace
