Bio

Coach Lafraniere enters his 10^th year at the helm of the Men’s and Women’s Curling Teams.  During the 2016-2017 season, Coach Lafraniere guided our Women’s team to Laurentian’s first OUA team banner in 14 years and first U SPORTS Championship for Laurentian since the 1990-1991 season.  Coach Lafraniere followed-up the 2017 U SPORTS victory with a second women’s national U SPORTS title during the 2018-2019 season.

Lafraniere is a NCCP Level III Certified Coach, NCCP Multi-Sport Learning Facilitator, and Master Learning Facilitator/Evaluator for the Northern Ontario Curling Association.  Lafraniere additionally served as Director of the Ontario Curling Council and currently serves as one of their High Performance Program members, who also helps nominate athletes for Ontario carding status.

Lafraniere is the former Director of the Amethyst Curling Camp in Sudbury, and has been an instructor at the Alberta Rocks Curling Camp in Edmonton (Alberta Curling Federation) and the Trillium Curling Camp in Waterloo (Ontario Curling Association) for nearly a decade.  More recently, he has worked with World Curling Federation high performance athletes in Germany, and in his role as a coach evaluator, he has worked with Curling Québec to certify their provincial coaches.  He has instructed at a number of other high performance curling clinics and coaching symposiums over the years, and has coached bantam, junior and high school curling teams. 

As a competitive curler, Lafraniere has played in several provincial junior and men’s championships. He has competed in three national championships, having curled at the 2004 Canadian Junior Championships in Victoria, British Columbia. He also represented Laurentian University at two Canadian University Championships, while being named an OUA All-Star and CIS Academic All-Canadian during his time at Laurentian University.

Lafraniere is a Laurentian University alumnus and former Executive Board Member of the Laurentian University Alumni Association, having graduated from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  Coach Lafraniere is currently the Vice-Principal of Lockerby Composite High School and Sessional Faculty Member at Laurentian University’s School of Education.  He is looking forward to another exciting and successful 2021-2022 curling campaign with both the Men’s and Women’s Voyageur Curling Teams.