Eighteen-year-old Javier Acevedo now knows that dreams can come true. A competitive swimmer for nearly a decade, earlier this month he became the first man to earn an Olympic nomination at the Team Canada trials and will be heading to Rio this summer for the 2016 Olympic Games. “I’ve been dreaming of this my whole […]
The last several weeks have been a whirlwind for Beach volleyball player Dallas Keith. Not only has the 23-year-old been busy finishing his masters at the University of Guelph – he’s studying the role of sport for development, peace and gender equality – but a nearly game-day decision to partner up with a beach volleyball player […]
When she stepped on the ice to play the gold-medal game in Buffalo, Kaitlin Tse had a flashback. It felt just like the women’s hockey final at the 2006 Olympics – two arch rivals and an arena split by chants of “Can-a-da!” and “U-S-A!” “I’ll never forget it, for sure,” said Tse, a local high […]
