{"id":75667,"date":"2021-12-10T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=75667"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:42:21","slug":"brock-universitys-grey-cup-connections-hit-the-gridiron-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/12\/brock-universitys-grey-cup-connections-hit-the-gridiron-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock connections ready to keep Grey Cup players safe, healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trio of sports medicine experts connected to Brock University will be on the sidelines keeping the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers safe and healthy when they clash in the Canadian Football League\u2019s (CFL) 108th Grey Cup this weekend.<\/p>\n

Many Brock grads and former Badgers work for the Tiger-Cats and across the wider CFL, but when the Grey Cup kicks off at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton on Sunday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. Steven Lam (BKin \u201917) of the Tiger-Cats and Nicholas Lichti (BKin \u201917) of the Blue Bombers will be on the sidelines in athletic therapy roles.<\/p>\n

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Katie Dalziel<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, Brock Sports Medicine\u2019s (BSM) Dr. Katie Dalziel has been assigned to the game by the CFL as a neutral physician.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be the first championship game of this level for me. It is a huge honour,\u201d said Dalziel, who joined Brock in 2018. \u201cI\u2019m extremely grateful for the opportunity, and for it to be in my hometown of Hamilton is a bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lam is the Ticats\u2019 Assistant Athletic Therapist, and Lichti has the same role with the Blue Bombers. Both majored in Kinesiology during their time as students in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock.<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Lichti (BKin \u201917)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brock Sports Medicine Athletic Therapist Jim Bilotta worked directly with Lam and Lichti as student therapists for various Brock Badgers varsity teams and said they were both great students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very proud of both these young therapists and feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with them during their time at Brock,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A former Badgers soccer player, Lam discovered the field of sports medicine during his time at Brock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I wanted to get into sports medicine when I started to have a handful of injuries during the end of my competitive soccer days,\u201d Lam said. \u201cI was then able to become a student trainer the following year, and the ability to help other athletes toward growth in their performance is what drew me in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lam worked as a student therapist for three years with Brock\u2019s cross country team in the fall and wrestling team in the winter seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrock was my base in athletic therapy. Being a student trainer drove my passion for the profession that took off into future education in becoming an Athletic Therapist,\u201d said Lam. \u201cBrock gave me opportunities as a student to explore practically in the sports medicine field.\u201d<\/p>\n

After graduating from Brock, Lichti completed his Athletic Therapy training at the University of Winnipeg, where he served as student president of the Athletic Therapy and Kinesiology program.<\/p>\n

He also received the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association\u2019s Student Leadership Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership skills in the classroom and in the community.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg ended a championship drought by defeating Hamilton in the 2019 Grey Cup, before the 2020 CFL season was cancelled.<\/p>\n

The first-place Bombers (11-3) earned a bye to the West Division final, where they defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders for their spot in the Grey Cup. Meanwhile, the Tiger-Cats (8-6) finished second behind the Toronto Argonauts in the regular season standings, but overcame the Argos in the East Division final.<\/p>\n

\u201cReaching this point has been a dream realized not only for our players, but for myself and the therapy team,\u201d Lam said. \u201cThis was a much different season with COVID-19 protocols. We worked through many adversities to get to this game as an organization. This reflects how we came together and pulled through in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pair of Brock University Kinesiology graduates will be on opposing sidelines when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats host the defending champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League\u2019s (CFL) 108th Grey Cup this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":75668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,36,9794,7,3319,1],"tags":[7904,7488,5599,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667"}],"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=75667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75674,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667\/revisions\/75674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}