Media releases

  • Brock women’s hockey to host Clean Sport awareness game

    MEDIA ADVISORY: R00003 – 10 January 2017

    The pressure to use performance enhancing drugs to get bigger, stronger and faster isn’t only placed on professional athletes. Unfortunately, youths are being introduced to these drugs at a younger and younger age.

    To help use education and mentorship to combat the problem, Brock Sports and the Badgers women’s hockey team will host more than 1,000 elementary and high school students and teachers on Friday, Jan. 13 in an awareness game for clean sport.

    The 2017 Badgers Believe in Clean Sport event will run from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Seymour-Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre in St. Catharines with an OUA regular season matchup between the Brock Badgers and University of Toronto Varsity Blues to start at 12:15 p.m.

    Before the game itself, the students will have lunch and listen to a number of guest speakers. The message will be that youths can succeed in their sports, activities and lives without the use of appearance and performing enhancing drugs.

    “Young people today encounter various external pressures, and we want them to know it’s important to pursue their goals with integrity, and that there is help available if they need it,” said Sara Bauer, Associate Head Coach of the Badgers women’s hockey team. “The Badgers Believe in Clean Sport event shares the message that we support these youths and want to encourage them to make informed and healthy decisions.”

    The event is a collaboration between Brock Sports and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, which runs the Succeed Clean program.

    Succeed Clean is a prevention program delivered by peer-mentors from local universities to educate children and youth in Grades 7-12 about the dangers of appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs. Rather than using these drugs, Succeed Clean encourages youths to set positive, healthy and realistic goals for themselves, learn healthy eating and lifestyle habits and educate themselves on the dangers of using drugs.

    “Last year, more than 600 students in the Niagara Region participated in 14 different Succeed Clean presentations,” said Paul Melia, President and CEO, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. “Being able to bring the message of clean sport and clean living to more than 1,000 students in one day is a tremendous achievement. Kudos to Brock Sports, the Succeed Clean team and the Badgers women’s hockey team for creating this opportunity.”

    Members of the media are invited to attend the 2017 Badgers Believe in Clean Sport event Friday at the Seymour-Hannah sports complex.

    For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

    * Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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  • Brock’s Goodman School of Business wins prestigious competition title

    MEDIA RELEASE: R00002 – 10 January 2017

    One of the most coveted trophies in Canadian university business competitions has a new home: Brock University’s Goodman School of Business.

    Goodman students captured the top-prize School of the Year award in Ottawa on Sunday, Jan. 8 at the JDCC case competition, which is central Canada’s largest undergraduate business school competition with 700 students from 12 institutions in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

    When the bus carrying Team Goodman pulled on to the St. Catharines campus late Monday afternoon, the 40-plus students spilled out proudly carrying their new trophy.
    The JDCC, often dubbed the “business school Olympics,” is actually three days of exhaustive competitions encompassing academic cases in eight fields of business, parliamentary style debates, sports tournaments, social competitions and charity contributions.

    Goodman students took first place for both finance and marketing, as well as the all-encompassing Academic Cup. They also placed second in sports, debate, international business and entrepreneurship, and finished third in the participation and Management Information Systems events.

    The School of the Year award takes all aspects of the competition into consideration and includes volunteer hours and the nearly $1,200 raised in funds for charity by the team.
     
    “We are so proud of our students’ successes,” said Goodman School of Business Interim Dean Barry Wright.

    “These results are a true testament to the hard work and perseverance they have put forward over the past semester. We are honoured to hold this title and to have others recognize their passion, excellence and Goodman spirit as well,” he said.

    Brock’s 2017 School of the Year victory comes after the prize had been won for seven consecutive years by another Ontario university.

    Under the guidance of team captain Dan Giddings (BBA ’16), the Goodman team was well-supported by staff, faculty and alumni who devoted hours to preparing students for the competition. Faculty members Eric Dolansky, Wesley Helms, Teju Herath, Glenn Skrubbeltrang, Lewis Stevenson and Peter Yannopoulos, and staff and alumni members Brittany Smith and Alyssa Freeman, coached teams and the final results prompted a steady stream of tweets from proud Goodman graduates, many of whom also dedicated many coaching hours last semester.

    Goodman graduates and JDC Central veterans Sohail Ahmed, Sean Bouwers, Julia Chiarelli, Scott Darlow, Bryan Dizon, James Fioretti, Matt Leslie, Zurain Malik, Anthony Marotta, Jordan Menchella, James Riley Osler Percheson, Brittany Smith, Dayna Stephenson, Derek Visser and Aqib Zia all supported this year’s Goodman JDCC team by devoting some of their weekends last semester to the cause.

    Making up the full Goodman JDCC team were:
    Accounting: Namrata Mistry, Shivam Patel, Amber Williams
    Business Strategy: Jenny Doan, Max Muria Courchesne, Mikayla Zolis
    Entrepreneurship: Justin Enns, Nick Hollard, Srujal Patel
    Management Information Systems: Christian Mindo, Vik Narula, Sean Pereira
    International Business: Farook Al-Yassin, Zach Ferry, Monica Upadhyay
    Human Resources: Emma Lahay, Bianca Read, Amy Rudnicki
    Marketing: Bianca Koop, Ashley Howard
    Finance: Jake Berec, Summer Gullage, Jacqueline Kope
    Debate: Holly Arruda, Josh Hall, Mitch Ledgerwood, Dylan Pereira
    Social: Spencer Bird, Rosie Di Matteo, Daniel Garner, Alexa Ogilvie-Robinson
    Sports: Julia Baird-Oryschak, Max Burtcher, Mitch Cowan, Shreeta Dhingani, Aidan Gilhula, Leanne Karat, Tomash Konefal, Will Spence
    Godparents: Max Muria Courchesne, Kristy-Anne Wytenburg
    Volunteers: Daniel Danaher, Kartika Gaur, Yash Kapadia
    Captain: Dan Giddings

    For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

    * Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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