{"id":10623,"date":"2011-06-22T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2011-07-05T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:28:25","slug":"women%e2%80%99s-world-wheelchair-basketball-championship-coming-to-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/women%e2%80%99s-world-wheelchair-basketball-championship-coming-to-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s world wheelchair basketball championship coming to Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10667\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10667\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10667 \" title=\"Ashley Baerg from Team Canada contemplates her next move\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bball.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Baerg (in red) from Team Canada contemplates her next move during a wheelchair basketball game. \" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Baerg (in red) from Team Canada contemplates her next move during a wheelchair basketball game. Brock will co-host the Women&#39;s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships next month. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The world is coming to Brock this summer.<\/p>\n<p>From July 15 to the 21, the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation will host the first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u25wwbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is a milestone in the ongoing growth of international wheelchair basketball, is co-hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairbasketball.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wheelchair Basketball Canada<\/a> and Brock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrock University is proud to be a part of this inaugural international tournament,\u201d said Steven Pillar, Vice-President Finance and Administration. \u201cThis event represents an incredible opportunity for our students, our community, and our country. We look forward to hosting the games and welcoming the world to our University this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eight countries are participating in the tournament: Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in the history of our sport, we get to showcase the talents of these elite young female wheelchair basketball athletes in a world-class championship,\u201d said Wendy Gittins, event co-chair and executive director of Wheelchair Basketball Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u25wwbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> is primary source for the latest news, event information, ticketing, team rosters, schedules and game results.<\/p>\n<p>The site features a comprehensive social media hub with exclusive access to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_BDFdMxpLCY\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a>, photo galleries, contests, polls, and athlete blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a promotional video for the event:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_BDFdMxpLCY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_BDFdMxpLCY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is coming to Brock this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10669,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions\/10669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}