The 43rd annual Wallaceburg Sports Hall of Fame Awards Banquet is set to be held on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the UAW Hall in Wallaceburg. Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets are $70 and can be purchased at Desjardins Insurance in Wallaceburg. More details, here.
2024 Athlete of the Year: Lucas Laprise
Lucas Laprise was born in Wallaceburg, January 28, 2007.
He is a multi-sport athlete who is currently a Grade 12 student at Wallaceburg District Secondary School. He spends most of his time on the baseball diamond or in hockey arenas, but has also been a member of the basketball, golf, and tennis teams in high school.
In Grade 9, he was named Male Junior Athlete of the Year and was also a part of the Junior Boys LKSSAA basketball champions in Grade 10. Out of his four years playing varsity baseball at WDSS, the team won three LKSSAA baseball championships. He was awarded Coach’s Choice honours in both baseball and basketball.
Lucas has spent most of his baseball career as a Port Lambton Pirate, where his teams have won four Ontario Baseball Association championships. In 2015, his U10 Rookie team won the OBA ‘D’ Championship. They won the ‘B’ championship again in 2021, and ‘C’ championships in 2023 and 2024.
Lucas began his hockey career in the Wallaceburg Minor Hockey Association before moving on to play AAA with the Chatham-Kent Cyclones. He was named captain of his team each year that he was eligible and also received the MVP award in his U15 and U16 seasons.
During those two years, he was also selected to participate in the Alliance All-Star games. The Cyclones organization named him Most Outstanding Forward in the 2021-2022 season. In 2023, Lucas joined the Elgin-Middlesex Canucks AAA team where he once again was selected to participate in the Alliance Top Prospects game. That same season he was second in the league in scoring.
During his U16, and U18 seasons, Lucas was an affiliate player for the Chatham Maroons and Sarnia Legionnaires Junior B teams respectively. Last summer, he was invited to participate in the London Knights and Sarnia Sting OHL main camps. He signed with the Strathroy Rockets Jr B team and was once again selected for the GOJHL Top Prospects game.
