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<\/a>Brock Kinesiology student and student athletic trainer Shawn Sabbatini, left, joined Joe Kenny, centre, Brock’s lead athletic therapist Jim Bilotta, right and Nicole Chimera (not present) as volunteers on opening day of the Canadian Wrestling Trials in Niagara Falls on Thursday, Dec. 5.<\/p><\/div>\n
Sterling transferred from the University of New Brunswick in 2017. In total, she captured an Atlantic gold and silver, an OUA gold and a silver and a national gold and bronze.<\/p>\n
The Brock Wrestling Club will deploy three varsity athletes \u2014 Hannah Taylor, Shauna Kuebeck and newcomer Julie Steffler \u2014 at the Canadian Wrestling Trials, which are taking place at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls from Dec. 5 to 7, in order to compete for Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a different vibe around this season. We have the most intense room in the country, but this year has been next level,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cEveryone walks in with great spirits excited to train and, when practice begins, you can tell each person is focused and ready to give it 100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team has been ramping up with extra matches during practice, said Taylor.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the rookies putting in the work to help those preparing for Olympic trials, the seniors dedicating every minute of the day working towards their dreams, to the coaches making themselves available at all hours for anything we need, it\u2019s an amazing group of people pushing each other in support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s 57kg weight class at the Olympic trails will consist of Taylor, a senior Sport Management student who recently returned with a bronze medal from the 2019 U23 World Championship, and Steffler, who recently joined the Badgers after transferring from Western University where she won two OUA silver medals and a pair of national medals in silver and bronze.<\/p>\n
Steffler, a native of Tottenham, Ont, has overcome two ACL surgeries, including one which caused her to miss an entire season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came to Brock to complete my Masters in Professional Kinesiology, and be in the Brock wrestling room,\u201d said Steffler, who added that she loved Western yet was looking to take her game to the next level.<\/p>\n
The first impression she had of training with the No. 1 team in Canada was the physical energy in the training room.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike the room was literally buzzing. At first this was really nerve racking and a bit intimidating even though I\u2019m an older athlete coming into the room,\u201d said Steffler. \u201cEveryone is working towards the same goals and wants each other to succeed. That\u2019s what I love about this room and the people in it. I still feel the buzzing, but now it feels like more of a normal thing and more like background noise that I always know is there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calder said the magnitude of training that room provides gives his team an edge on the mats, yet it also serves as a humbling tool for his athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat room is an egotistical room, and it should be, but once we return to canvas the grounds of Brock, or the city, wherever we might be then we return to being an \u2018Average Joe\u2019,\u201d said Calder.<\/p>\n
Shauna Kuebeck enters her fourth season motivated to improve upon a tough campaign last year. The Kinesiology student from Greenbank, Ont. injured her meniscus two weeks before the OUA Championships.<\/p>\n
Kuebeck lost the third-place match in the 82kg class at nationals in Calgary last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI managed to recover in time to compete, but I don\u2019t believe I competed at the level I am capable of at either tournament,\u201d she said. \u201cMy team on the other hand did a phenomenal job in their respective weight classes. We had a couple of young girls who really stepped up and performed. This year we may have a bit of a young team but I have no doubt we\u2019re ready. I am beyond excited to get back at it and finally take home a U SPORT gold.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kuebeck will compete in a lower weight class, 76kg, at the Olympic Trials than she did at nationals last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coaches and the team make the best decision for what we feel will make the strongest team,\u201d said Kuebeck.<\/p>\n
This year the Badgers consist of Taylor, Steffler, Kuebeck, Samantha Romano, Skylar Grote, Daina Morris-Armstrong, Nicole French, Jessica Tillmans, Mikayla Custers, Sarah Hein, Makayla Levy, Leigha Smith and Colleen Armstrong.<\/p>\n
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WOMEN’S OLYMPIC TRIALS ENTRIES AND WEIGHT CLASSES<\/strong><\/p>\n 50kg<\/p>\n Dufour, Jade \u2013 Montreal WC<\/p>\n Dutchak, Katie \u2013 Saskatoon Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Eve, Augusta \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Fox, Natasha \u2013 Saskatoon Wrestling Club<\/p>\n MacDonald, Jessie \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Parks, Madison \u2013 London-Western WC<\/p>\n Stinellis, Ligaya \u2013 Hamilton Wrestling Club<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 53kg<\/p>\n Chambers, Grace \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Godinez Gonzalez, Karla \u2013 Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Jayd, Davis \u2013 Montreal WC<\/p>\n Parsons, Jade \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Stewart, Samantha \u2013 Black Bears WC<\/p>\n Weicker, Diana \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Wiebe, Amber \u2013 Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 57kg<\/p>\n Beauregard, Laurence \u2013 Montreal WC<\/p>\n Bellavia, Amy \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Kennett, Tianna \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Morais, Linda \u2013 Montreal WC<\/p>\n Rowbottom, Miki \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Schaefer, Emily \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Steffler, Julie \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Taylor, Hannah \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Town, Alexandria \u2013 York Wrestling Club<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 62kg<\/p>\n Brouillette, Jessica \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Fazzari, Michelle \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Godinez Gonzalez, Ana Paula \u2013 Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Graham, Breanne \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Pinsent, Savana \u2013 Vipers Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Stone-Papadopoulos, Braxton \u2013 Team Impact<\/p>\n Walls, Michalia \u2013 London-Western WC<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 68kg<\/p>\n Di Bacco, Olivia \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Johnson, Berit \u2013 Saskatoon Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Keefe, Veronica \u2013 Montreal WC<\/p>\n Lappage, Danielle \u2013 Dinos Wrestling Club<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 76kg<\/p>\n Di Stasio, Justina \u2013 Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Ferguson, Leah \u2013 Keystone Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Follensbee, Taylor \u2013 Saskatoon Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Kuebeck, Shauna \u2013 Brock Wrestling Club<\/p>\n Slater, Dejah \u2013 Team Impact<\/p>\n Wiebe, Erica \u2013 Dinos Wrestling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The women\u2019s wrestling team at Brock University is entering the 2019-20 campaign with a noble purpose as they look to defend their eighth consecutive U SPORT Championship title on home soil and test their might at the Olympic Trials in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":62564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1,4,58],"tags":[256,4437,5951,3331,699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560"}],"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=62560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62574,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560\/revisions\/62574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}