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# Laplante working to bring Nashua North wrestling to the top
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/laplante-working-to-bring-nashua-north-wrestling-to-the-top/
- Published: 2014-02-03T18:10:22.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-03T18:10:22.000Z
- Description: Marcel Laplante has a perfect reason to be motivated.
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division I, Winter Sports, Nashua North, wrestling, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

![Marcel Laplante has already had a solid season for the Nashua North wrestling team, including winning his weight class at the Lowell (Mass.) Holiday Tournament.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bc/58/bc5866d0-9fd9-4113-b959-670d6f16471d/content/images/www-nh-highschoolsports-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jmnnwrest010414-laplante1.jpg)

Marcel Laplante has already had a solid season for the Nashua North wrestling team, including winning his weight class at the Lowell (Mass.) Holiday Tournament.

Marcel Laplante has a perfect reason to be motivated.

After winning Division I and Meet of Champions wrestling titles at 113-pounds a year ago, Laplante went to the New England Championships. As a junior at Nashua High School North, he had a chance to place well, but was forced to withdraw from the tournament after sustaining a concussion early in the competition.

That kind of end to a season could drive him, but it doesn’t. Laplante would much rather go back to New Englands with all of his Titans teammates.

“I really didn’t think much about it,” the North senior said of last season. “I was more focused on the caliber of our team this year, how many returning guys we had. I was more focused getting the team where I thought we should be, which I think is one of the top two or three teams in the state. That’s what preoccupied me for the majority of the year.”

Laplante started wrestling when he was kindergarten, when his father, Joe, started taking him to the Boys & Girls Club for practices. At the time, he participated in several other sports, but as the years went by, wrestling became his focus as the others fell to the side.

“Well, I’m not exactly that tall, basketball was kind of a problem,” Laplante said, who was on the North cross country team in the fall and pole vaults in the spring. “When I was younger, I just enjoyed it and I stuck with it. It grew into my primary sport. I didn’t jump at it, it just kind of developed into it.”

It wasn’t until middle school when Laplante started to take wrestling seriously enough to study what he was doing. He started watching more video of his matches, along with the other wrestlers’ matches, to pick up on the things he was doing right and could be doing better.

“It was only in about seventh grade that I really started watching and thinking critically about it,” he said. “What you put in is what you get out of it. If you want to put in the work outside of practice, you’re going to have a successful career. Wrestling never ends. It’s all day, whether you’re dieting or running before or after practice.”

Laplante would like nothing more than to see the Titans crowned Division I champions, but given Timberlane’s dominance in the sport – the Owls have won every Class L/Division I title since 1999 – he knows that’s not likely. Instead, he thinks North can compete for second in the division (Feb. 22 at Concord) and send a good size contingent to the Meet of Champions and maybe even New Englands.

“I have confidence in everyone,” Laplante said. “If we can get everyone focused and ready to compete come Feb. 21, it could be a fun day.”