22.05.12
Justin Ross might actions forward when he hits the ice with his minor hockey team in Lucan, but when he watches Group Canada in the world junior hockey championship this week his eyes will be on the goalie.
That's because the 13-year-old Lucan aboriginal designed a mask that both Team Canada's goaltenders will wear during the meeting.
"I'm really excited," said Ross.
In November, Ross entered Hockey Canada and Bauer's Draw up-A-Mask contest and was surprised when he returned home from school a few weeks later to a voicemail saying he'd won.
A Ascent 8 pupil at Lucan's Wilberforce elementary school, Ross used pencil crayons to sketch and pigment his design by hand.
He wanted his mask to complement Team Canada's retro contest jerseys.
"I knew that the jersey had the older (Team Canada) logo on it, so I resolute to take that logo and put it on the mask," he said.
It took Ross three days to finished the red, white and black design, but it paid off. His design was chosen out of more than 1,000 others in the 13-18 age sort.
Source: London Free Press