{"id":99571,"date":"2025-02-26T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=99571"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:51:18","slug":"brock-to-host-national-university-wrestling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/02\/brock-to-host-national-university-wrestling-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to host national university wrestling championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University will welcome the nation&#8217;s top university wrestlers when it hosts the 2025 Wrestling Canada Lutte U SPORTS Invitational Championships this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The event \u2014 taking place Friday, Feb. 28 to Saturday, March 1 at Canada Games Park \u2014 marks the first championship under a new partnership between U SPORTS and Wrestling Canada Lutte (WCL) that aims to enhance collaboration and elevate the competition.<\/p>\n<p>With a dominant history in U SPORTS wrestling, Brock&#8217;s teams are primed to compete on home turf. In 2024, the women&#8217;s team claimed its 11th national title while the men&#8217;s squad secured its ninth consecutive championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to host this premier event,&#8221; said Brock Sports Associate Director Courtney Smith. &#8220;Brock\u2019s strong wrestling tradition makes this partnership a perfect fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event are <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.universitytickets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will also feature an awards banquet and a Brock Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which takes place on Sunday, March 2 at Amici\u2019s Banquet and Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing in the spirit of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/08\/brock-sports-to-honour-new-badger-hall-of-fame-inductees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrating Olympic excellence<\/a>, this class will include five former student-athletes and coaches who have made outstanding contributions to the Olympic Games in the sport of wrestling. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colin Daynes (BA \u201998) \u2014 Atlanta 1996 (Athlete)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Deschatelets \u2014 Sydney 2000 (Builder)<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Fazzari (posthumously) (BPhEd \u201910, BEd \u201913) \u2014 Rio 2016 (Athlete)<\/li>\n<li>Evan MacDonald \u2014 Athens 2004 (Athlete)<\/li>\n<li>Tonya Verbeek (BRLS\u2019 00, BEd\u2019 03, MEd \u201906) \u2014 Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 (Athlete)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University will welcome the nation&#8217;s top university wrestlers when it hosts the 2025 Wrestling Canada Lutte U SPORTS Invitational Championships this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":99572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794,58],"tags":[3333,256,4437,13065,10286,582,4620,699,14076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99571"}],"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=99571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99578,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99571\/revisions\/99578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}