Emiigwed Shognosh-Diaz, a member of the Walpole First Nations community, is an ambassador for the Toronto 2017 North American Indigenous Games. Photo courtesy Toronto 2017NAIG.A partnership between Brock University and the Toronto 2017 North American Indigenous Games will provide students with a unique experiential learning opportunity.
Students from the major games field course offered by the Department of Sport Management will gain hundreds of hours of work experience by volunteering in the North American Indigenous Games, being held in Toronto this summer.
The official announcement of the partnership will take place Wednesday, March 1 at Brock University.
The North American Indigenous Games is the largest continental sporting and cultural gathering of Indigenous peoples. More than 5,000 athletes and 2,000 volunteers will take part in the eight-day event being held from July 16 to 23.
This is the fourth time the Department of Sport Management has partnered with large-scale sporting events.
Past games have included the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, the Ontario Winter Games in 2014 in Muskoka and the Ontario Summer Games in 2014 in Windsor.
Media and the Brock community are invited to join Peter Tiidus, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and Marcia Trudeau-Bomberry, CEO of the 2017 North American Indigenous Games Host Society for the partnership announcement on Wednesday, March 1 at 11:30 a.m. in Brock’s Market Hall.
