Paralympic swim team coach hopes team can follow in wake of Olympic success
Canada’s Olympic swim team won six medals in the pool. The Paralympic team is looking to write its own success story.
Canada’s Olympic swim team won six medals in the pool. The Paralympic team is looking to write its own success story.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – David Eng can carry the Canadian flag, but he can’t keep a secret. On Sept. 6, the four-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball was announced as Canada’s flag bearer for the…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Nine years after winning Parapan Am gold in the pool in Rio, Chelsey Gotell has returned in a much different role for the Paralympics. No longer an athlete herself, the…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Two-time Paralympic gold medallist Chelsey Gotell has been around the block enough times that she can help Team Canada in many ways, from words of advice to pre-game rituals. The…
The battle for Paralympic gold in women’s wheelchair basketball is going to be one of the closest in years, veteran Canadian player Tracey Ferguson says.
TORONTO – Canadian Paralympic hopeful Mitchell Chase, has always been confident in his abilities. Coming off of a breakout 2015 season, in which he won gold in the T38 1,500m at the Parapan Am Games, the 19-year-old…
Sam Charron has great expectations for both the future of his team and himself in Paralympic 7-a-side soccer. Since winning MVP of an international tournament in Barcelona, Spain back in 2012, at the age of…
When Nik Goncin takes to the court for his first Paralympics this September, he won’t only take pride in playing for his country, but also for two of the people cheering him on from the…
UPDATE: Darda Sales made the Paralympic team and will compete in Rio this September. One of the newer members of Canada’s women’s national wheelchair basketball team is fighting to earn a spot on the roster,…
UPDATE: This story was from the Paraswim trials in April. Mrak will be representing Canada in Brazil. TORONTO – Despite a disappointing run on the day before the Canadian Paralympic swim team was selected, a…