McGill volleyball grad Lessard headed back to Olympics… with COC Mission Staff

Marie-Andrée Lessard (BCom ’01), a native of LaSalle, Que., who starred on the volleyball court for McGill and in beach volleyball for Canada, is headed back to the Games in a different role.

As a Canadian athlete at the 2012 London Olympics, Lessard would stretch out her weary legs in the Canadian team lounge at the athletes village at the end of the day.

She and her Canadian teammates would watch the Olympic action on Canada’s big-screen TV in the lounge, or play cards or board games shipped from home to break up the monotony. She’d nibble on her favourite cheese that a Canadian staffer had happily made a London grocery run to purchase.

Lessard had no idea how much work had gone into making Canada’s athletes feel at home at the Games.

She knows now.

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