{"id":81135,"date":"2022-10-13T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=81135"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:08:35","slug":"josh-celebre-leads-the-brock-badgers-on-the-field-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/10\/josh-celebre-leads-the-brock-badgers-on-the-field-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Celebre leads the Brock Badgers on the field, in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no \u2018I\u2019 in team.<\/p>\n

Brock men\u2019s rugby player Carter Filion says you may have heard of the age-old clich\u00e9, but you haven\u2019t experienced what it truly means until you\u2019ve met his friend and teammate, Josh Celebre.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the many reasons Filion and the Badgers men\u2019s rugby team are proud that Celebre will be receiving his Master of Science during Brock University\u2019s 112th Convocation on the morning of Friday, Oct. 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never met someone as dedicated to making others better than Josh. When we step onto the field, he is the epitome of a great teammate,\u201d Filion said. \u201cHe\u2019s willing to play any role for the team, gives 110 per cent and leads by example. But more importantly, he develops real relationships with his teammates off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filion knows first-hand what it means to be friends with Celebre. The duo instantly clicked when they moved in together to a house off campus.<\/p>\n

When Filion lost his mother, Barbara Tomenson-Filion, after a long fight with triple-negative breast cancer last year, Celebre was one of the first ones there for him.<\/p>\n

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Friends and teammates Carter Filion (left) and Josh Celebre pose for a photo during the Brock Sports 2021-22 Athletic Banquet.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cJosh was always there for me, checking in, asking how I was doing,\u201d Filion said. \u201cHe always made sure I was OK despite barely knowing me, but he knew I appreciated the support during that difficult time. Even though I wouldn\u2019t voice it all the time. He\u2019s always willing to help others who are going through hard times. It illustrates the kind of person he is. I am proud to call Josh one of my best friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Celebre crosses the stage in Ian Beddis Gymnasium on Friday morning, no one will be prouder than his parents, who he learned countless lessons about life and the importance of education from.<\/p>\n

He cites his father, Gino, who works in the tumour bank at St. Joseph\u2019s Healthcare Hamilton and mother, Julia, who is in Laboratory Information Systems at Hamilton General Hospital, as the motivation to return to Brock after earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in Medical Science two years ago.<\/p>\n

In September, Celebre started his PhD in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, which he will focus on behavioural and population health while conducting research in the sport psychology field.<\/p>\n

His dissertation, which will assess how team cohesion can affect athletes\u2019 adherence to sport injury rehabilitation programs, is projected to complete his PhD by April 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents are my great motivator. Even when I was uncertain if I wanted to continue the master\u2019s program or pursue something else, they have always picked up the phone and helped me out,\u201d he said. \u201cI am so lucky to have them in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebre played sports growing up in Stoney Creek, playing hockey at a young age and discovering rugby in Grade 7. On the ice, he played for the competitive travel hockey team Southern Tier Admirals before landing with the Grimsby Peach Kings for two seasons in the Provincial Junior Hockey League.<\/p>\n

But it was his love for rugby that became one of the reasons he chose to come to Brock. Celebre would go on to be more than a student-athlete. He dove into all facets of campus life, including an internship as a student therapist with Brock Sports Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrock means so much to me. It\u2019s given me more opportunities than I could\u2019ve ever imagined,\u201d Celebre said. \u201cThe campus feels like a community, you always see someone you know in the halls. To summarize it, it\u2019s been nothing short of perfect. I\u2019m so thankful to everyone I\u2019ve met here and got to learn from. Going to Brock was one of the best decisions I\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebre earned the Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award, which is given to a nominated master and doctoral student in each Faculty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve sometimes had this doubt in the back of my mind at some points that I don\u2019t necessarily deserve to be in a field of higher education, but this award gave me confidence and showed me that I worked to be here and the sky is the limit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the 2021-22 Brock Sports Athletic Banquet, Celebre\u2019s was honoured with the Joseph P. Kenny Student Therapist Award of Excellence for his student therapist work with the Brock men\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n

Maintaining his enthusiasm to help others, Celebre\u2019s end goal is to become a professor like one of his mentors, Kinesiology Professor Phil Sullivan, who was instrumental in Celebre continuing his studies at Brock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that becoming a professor is an ambitious goal, but I\u2019m ready to put in my hours and work for it,\u201d he said. \u201cI fell in love with the whole research process knowing I can have an impact on someone that might be in need of help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no \u2018I\u2019 in team. Brock men\u2019s rugby player Carter Filion says you may have heard of the age-old clich\u00e9, but you haven\u2019t experienced what it truly means until you\u2019ve met his friend and teammate, Josh Celebre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":81137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,36,188,55,1,4,58],"tags":[256,4437,156,7488,1368,1677,582,1874,640,12076,7584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81135"}],"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=81135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81138,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81135\/revisions\/81138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}