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OTTAWA, Ont. (2/21/2013) -- Emily Boissonneault, a native of Brooklin, Ontario, one year removed from her stellar four-year playing career with the University of Detroit Mercy has been named to Team Canada's women's lacrosse team that will be competing in the 2013 Women's Lacrosse World Cup.

"Being named to the 2013 World Cup team is a huge honor. The women on this team are phenomenal and I look up to all of them. They are all very accomplished athletes and it is not often you get to play with such successful women," said Boissonneault.

Boissonneault will be part of the 18-member Team Canada roster for the 2013 Women's Lacrosse World Cup, run by the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) from July 10-20, 2013, in Oshawa, Ontario.

"The tryouts started out pretty stressful since there were so many athletes and new faces," said Boissonneault. "When we got to the second and third tryouts, I started to loosen up and get to know the rest of my team. That was definitely my biggest accomplishment. Getting to know the team was so important to my confidence on and off the field."

Back in June 2012, more than 60 players attended an evaluation camp. From there, the roster was trimmed to 35 with the remaining players competing in the North America Challenge in mid-July. During that event, Boissonneault had five goals - on seven shots - along with three caused turnovers, two draw controls, and a ground ball. She also competed in the US Lacrosse Stars and Stripes Weekend in California Oct. 3-7 of last year with those games played at Stanford University and Burlingame High School.

"The anticipation of waiting for the team to be announced was tough. I just continued to work out and tried not to think about it. I was lucky to have my family and friends by my side with confidence and support," added Boissonneault.

She was a model student-athlete while at Detroit as she was recognized with the UDM's President's Award– given to the most outstanding senior student-athletes who demonstrate what it means to be a true Titan – in addition to numerous accolades on the field.

She finished her four-year Titan career with 69 career games, starting all of them. She is the all-time Titan leader with 242 goals and 272 points, 585 shots, 193 groundballs, 157 caused turnovers, and 52 free position goals. In the NCAA record book, her 242 career goals are 13th all-time, while her 157 caused turnovers is tied for seventh.

She was named to the All-Conference team in each year of her last three years and she was named the National Lacrosse Conference (NLC) Attack MVP her freshman season in 2009. She led the team in goals her first three seasons scoring 57, 68, 63 and 54 respectively. 

Canada has competed in each of the eight World Cup Tournaments previously contested, along with the United States, Australia, England, Scotland and Wales. Japan and the Czech Republic joined the tournament in 1993, while Germany first fielded a team in 2001. New Zealand's entry into the 2005 tournament pushed the field to ten teams, and in 2009 a record 16 teams competed in Prague, including first-time participants Austria, Denmark, the Haudenosaunee, Ireland, Korea, and the Netherlands.