Napanee track and field star closes in on international assignment

By Mike Koreen/The Whig-Standard

Posted 1 day ago

Brandon Deslauriers didn't just win two medals at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations track and field championships.

The Napanee District Secondary School student likely also earned a trip to France this past weekend in Sudbury.

With his silver medal-winning senior boys shot put throw of 18.21 metres, Deslauriers, 16, met the Canadian standard to qualify for the IAAF World Youth Championships, July 6 to 10 in Lille, France.

Unless two other Canadians beat Deslauriers' effort before June 20, the five-time OFSAA medal winner figures to be representing the country at the event for 1994- and 1995-born athletes.

"It's going to be awesome," the personable Deslauriers said after classes on Tuesday. "I've pretty much never been outside Ontario, only Montreal."