{"id":40342,"date":"2016-07-28T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T19:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40342"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:54:09","slug":"brock-to-celebrate-athletes-and-coaches-headed-to-olympic-and-paralympic-games-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/07\/brock-to-celebrate-athletes-and-coaches-headed-to-olympic-and-paralympic-games-in-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to celebrate athletes and coaches headed to Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six athletes and two coaches headed to the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have connections to Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>Former or current students, club members and coaches make up the Brock contingent headed to the Summer Games in three sports: wrestling, rowing and track and field.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the Brock connection, the community is invited to a send-off party <strong>Tuesday, Aug. 2 from 3 to 4 p.m.<\/strong> in the Guernsey Market.<\/p>\n<p>Expected to be in attendance will be wrestlers Michelle Fazzari, a Brock alumna and her Brock Wrestling Club teammate Jillian Gallays, as well as Jessica Lewis, a fifth-year Brock student who will represent her native Bermuda in the track events of the Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the send-off party will be Marty Calder, head coach of Brock\u2019s legendary wrestling program who will serve as assistant coach for the Canadian women\u2019s wrestling team in Rio. Another Canadian women\u2019s wrestler, Jasmine Mian, is a Brock graduate who went on to continue her studies in Calgary, where she now lives and trains.<\/p>\n<p>Three other Brock alumni headed for the Games in rowing won\u2019t be in attendance because they\u2019ve already left for training camps. Competing on the Canadian men\u2019s rowing team are Brock Badgers alumni Eric Woelfl and Tim Schrijver, while fellow alumnus Terry Paul will coach the men\u2019s quad team.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s send-off party is open to everyone at Brock and from the Niagara community. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Olympic and Paralympic send-off party<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Where: Guernsey Market, Brock University<br \/>\nWhen: Tuesday, Aug. 2 from 3 to 4 p.m.<br \/>\nWho: Athletes Jessica Lewis, Michelle Fazzari and Jillian Gallays<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Brock contingent headed to 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michelle Fazzari and Jasmine Mian: <\/strong>Brock alumnae, women\u2019s wrestling<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jillian Gallays: <\/strong>Brock Wrestling Club member, women\u2019s wrestling<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Lewis: <\/strong>Fifth-year Brock student, track racing in Paralympics representing Bermuda<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric Woelfl and Tim Schrijver: <\/strong>Brock alumni, men\u2019s rowing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marty Calder: <\/strong>Assistant coach of Canadian women&#8217;s wrestling team<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terry Paul: <\/strong>Brock alumnus, coach, Canadian men&#8217;s quad rowing team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40345\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Brock-Olympic-send-off.jpeg\" alt=\"Brock-Olympic-send-off\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six athletes and two coaches headed to the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have connections to Brock University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,58],"tags":[4333,4331,3243,4332,3850,4330,307,381,623,4334,3191,699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40359,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342\/revisions\/40359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}