Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Team Canada won its first medal at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Monday. Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu of St-Constant, Quebec and Olympic bronze medalist Jennifer Abel of Montreal, Quebec won the silver medal in the women’s three metree Read more
Team Canada delivered a comeback for the ages on Monday at the 2017 World Men’s Water Polo Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Trailing 8-4 against Montenegro with five minutes left, Team Canada scored four unanswered goals and salvaged an 8-8 tie, in Read more
Three-time Olympic medalist Karen Cockburn of Toronto, Ontario announced her retirement from trampoline at the age of 36 on Sunday according to CBC Sports. Cockburn (pronounced co-burn) won the silver medal for Canada at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Read more
It appears that Canadian Olympic medalist Andre De Grasse of Scarborough, Ontario is heading into the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championship in Athletics in fine form. That is because on Sunday, De Grasse won a men’s 200m Read more
There has not been much to celebrate when it comes to the Canadian men’s national soccer team over the last decade. When you are ranked 100th in the world, there does not need to be much explanation why the Canadian Read more
It will be a difficult challenge for Team Canada on Tuesday night in Houston when they face the favoured Costa Rica squad in the 2017 Gold Cup of soccer. In their last eight games, Canada has only beaten Costa Rica Read more
Carling Zeeman of Hamilton, Ontario won a silver medal in a women’s World Cup single sculls rowing competition in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sunday. It was Zeeman’s second career World Cup medal in the women’s single sculls and third career World Read more
For the first time ever, the Canadian men’s national volleyball team won a medal in the World Volleyball League. On Saturday, Canada beat the United States 18-25, 25-20, 25-22, 25-21 in the bronze medal game in Curitiba, Brazil. Team Canada Read more
Two Canadian female beach volleyball players–Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario and Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario are in their first season as teammates on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. After having separate partners the last few years (Humana-Paredes was with Taylor Read more
For the second time in five years, Canada has beaten Russia in the final round of the World Volleyball League. On Tuesday, Canada defeated Russia in straight sets–25-23, 29-27, 25-17 in the final of the World Volleyball League. With the Read more