Local Boy Becomes Honourary Assistant Coach For Peterborough Petes on Family Day

Seven-year-old Talon is lending the Peterborough Petes coaching staff a hand as he will be an honourary assistant coach for the team on Family Day (Feb. 20).

Blake (left) and Talon (right) with Peterborough Pete Konnor Smith (middle). Both Talon and Blake will serve as assistant coach and scout respectively for the Petes in a partnership with Five Counties for the upcoming Family Day matinee match against Sudbury.  Photo courtesy of FCCC.

The new coaching staff addition is part of a partnership between the Petes and Five Counties Children’s Centre (FCCC).

Talon has been receiving therapy at FCCC and has been diagnosed with O.D.D. (oppositional defiance disorder) and ADHD. He has also at risk of a learning disability.

Part of the game’s proceeds will support FCCC’s work to provide physio, occupational and speech therapy, as well as other services, to more than 6,000 children and youth in the region according to a press release.

“Talon has said to me, ‘you mean I get to tell the team to work hard and they have to listen?” said Kristen, Talon’s mother.

Talon's older brother Blake is serving as an honourary scout at the same game as part of the Petes’ Next Gen program. Blake has been a client at FCCC for five years.

The Petes’ Family Day game is against the Sudbury Wolves on Feb. 20.

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