{"id":55886,"date":"2019-01-30T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=55886"},"modified":"2019-01-30T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:11:19","slug":"provincial-fencing-swimming-championships-to-be-held-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/01\/provincial-fencing-swimming-championships-to-be-held-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial fencing, swimming championships to be held at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock University is hosting two Ontario University Athletics championships on back-to-back weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Badgers host the OUA women\u2019s fencing championships on Saturday, Feb. 2 and Sunday, Feb. 3, and the swimming championships from Thursday, Feb. 7 to Saturday, Feb. 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHosting the OUA fencing championships is an immense honour for us,\u201d said Badgers fencing coach Tim Stang. \u201cThese championships bring together some of the strongest female competitors in the sport of fencing in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor us as hosts, this is our chance to show our skill and tenacity at Badgers home field. Our women have had a long history of success at the OUA and we\u2019re out to continue the tradition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fencing competition begins Saturday, Feb. 2, running from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. in Ian Beddis Gymnasium and is divided into three disciplines of fencing: foil, epee and sabre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, Feb. 3, team relay begins at 9 a.m., with medals and banner awards at 5 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The No. 2-ranked University of Toronto Varsity Blues look to defend their title when more than 350 swimmers descend on the Eleanor Misener Aquatic Centre for the OUA Swimming Championships beginning on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 10 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Admission is free for spectators.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is hosting two Ontario University Athletics championships on back-to-back weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":55887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,58],"tags":[256,2034,2494,686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55886"}],"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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55888,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55886\/revisions\/55888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}