Three Brock wrestlers golden on mat in Canada Cup finals
Rowers selected to represent Canada at under-21 regatta in New Zealand
Brock Badgers wrestling was well-represented when gold medals were awarded at the Canada Cup in Calgary.
Ty Bridgwater, a recreation and leisure student from Cambridge who spent the past two years at the university, defeated Carson Lee 11-1 in the 79-kilogram men’s freestyle final.
Brock Wrestling Club members Jessica Brouillette and Emily Schaefer pinned down firstplace finishes in the women’s 62 kg and 57 kg weight classes, respectively.
Brouillette, a native of Barrie, received the Outstanding Wrestler Award after overcoming Minju Kim of South Korea by technical superiority for a 10-0 decision in the final.
Schaefer went 2-1 to top her division. The Sarnia native defeated Shauna Kemp of the United States and Youngjin Kwon of South Korea before losing to Karla Lorena Godinez Gonzales of the Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club from Burnaby, B.C.
Brouillette, who was coming off a victory the day before at the nonOlympic weight trials, defeated Breanne Graham to clinch a spot on the Canadian senior world championship team.
Held at the University of Calgary, the Canada Cup featured wrestlers from Brazil, Jamaica, South Korea, the United States as well as the host country.
NextGen hopefuls
Rowing Canada is giving three student-athletes something to write about should the subject “what I did on my summer vacation” come up in an assignment after they return to Brock University for a second year.
Jordan Isnor, a political science major from Nanaimo, B.C., has been named to the national women’s under-21 team; Thomas Markewich, medical sciences, Regina, and Sam Stewart, history, London, Ont., were named to the under-21 men’s team.
The three will be part of a contingent representing Canada at the Trans-Tasman Regatta taking place Aug. 22-24 at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand.
Isnor, women’s lightweight; Markewich, men’s lightweight; and Stewart, men’s open, were selected on the strength of their performances at the 2019 Speed Orders as well as at NextGen National Training Camp held last month in Victoria.
Also on the five-member women’s team is University of Western Ontario University student Lauren Gadson, a member of the St. Catharines Rowing Club.
In addition to sending nine athletes to New Zealand, Rowing Canada is also competing in the world under-23 championships later this month in Florida.
“These two events are valuable components of our NextGen program and will provide beneficial developmental and international competition for these up-and-coming athletes,” said Adam Parfitt, Rowing Canada national team operations director.
NextGen is a program focusing on rowers with the potential to compete in the Olympics and Paralympics within the next five to eight years.