OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced
Wednesday the 11 student-athletes and four staff members who will
represent Canada in golf at the 26th Summer Universiade in
Shenzhen, China, in August.
2011 Summer Universiade website: http://www.sz2011.org/Universiade
Team Canada website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/universiade/summer
This will mark the second appearance for golf at the world
university games. The sport made its Universiade debut in 2007 in
Bangkok, Thailand, but was not part of the program in 2009 in
Serbia.
The Canadian men finished 12th in the team competition in Bangkok,
while the women's squad placed 13th. Thailand (men) and Mexico
(women) are defending Universiade champions heading into the
tournament set for Aug. 17-20 at the Mission Hills Golf Club.
Highlighting the red and white roster for the Shenzhen Games are
the University of British Columbia's Kylie Barros and Humber
College's Mark Hoffman, who captured the women's
and men's individual titles at the 2011 Canadian University/College
Championships conducted by Golf Canada earlier this month in
Ashburn, Ont.
Barros, a 19-year-old native of Edmonton who is also the reigning
NAIA national champion, scored a nine-shot victory at the
tournament held at The Royal Ashburn Golf Club to lead the UBC
women to their third straight team banner.
Hoffman shot a 3-under par 69 in the final round and was 1-under
par for the tourney as he guided Humber to the men's team title.
The 22-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., won the Trinidad and Tobago
Amateur Championship in 2010 and finished third at the Scottish
University Championship in 2009.
Rounding out the five-member women's squad for the Universiade are
a trio of University of Victoria Vikes including Anne Balser of
Digby, N.S., Alyssa Herkel of Port Alberni, B.C., and Megan
Woodland of Victoria, as well as Devon Rizzo, a University of
Waterloo student from Brantford, Ont.
Balser finished second at the University/College Championship,
Herkel and Woodland tied for third, and Rizzo placed fifth.
On the men's side, the six-member team is completed by two of
Hoffman's Humber teammates, Gregory Belsito of
Thornhill and Adrian Cord of Etobicoke, Ont., as
well as UBC teammates David Sheman of Newmarket, Ont., and Jack
Wesche of Calgary, and UVic's Darren Hupfer of Edmonton.
Belsito was fourth at the University/College Championship, Sheman
and Wesche tied for fifth, while Cord and Hupfer tied for
ninth.
Balser, who won the University/College title a year ago, is the
only returnee from the 2007 Universiade in Bangkok where she
finished 46th. She also has FISU world university championships
experience, having placed 12th in 2010 in Spain and 31st in 2008 in
South Africa.
The top Canadian performers in Bangkok were Humber College's
Michael Zizek with a 15th-place finish on the men's side and UVic's
Christina Spence, who was 27th in the women's tournament.
Ray Chateau from Humber College, who was Team
Canada's head coach in Bangkok, will act as team leader in
Shenzhen. Chateau coached the Canadian entry at the 2004 FISU world
championships and was team leader at the event in 2006, 2008 and
2010.
The coaching staff for Shenzhen is comprised of Dave Hollinger and
Carla Munch, both from the University of Waterloo, and Chris
Dickson from the University of Western Ontario.
Hollinger (2006, 2010) and Munch (2008, 2010) both have FISU world
championships experience.
TEAM CANADA ROSTER
Women
Name | School | Hometown |
Anne Balser | University of Victoria | Digby, N.S. |
Kylie Barros | University of British Columbia | Edmonton, Alta. |
Alyssa Herkel | University of Victoria | Port Alberni, B.C. |
Devon Rizzo | University of Waterloo | Brantford, Ont. |
Megan Woodland | University of Victoria | Victoria, B.C |
Men
Name | School | Hometown |
Gregory Belsito | Humber College | Thornhill, Ont. |
Adrian Cord | Humber College | Etobicoke, Ont. |
Mark Hoffman | Humber College | Thornhill, Ont. |
Darren Hupfer | University of Victoria | Edmonton, Alta. |
David Sheman | University of British Columbia | Newmarket, Ont. |
Jack Wesche | University of British Columbia | Calgary, Alta. |
STAFF
Position | Name | School | Hometown |
Team leader | Ray Chateau | Humber College | Richmond Hill, Ont. |
Coach | Chris Dickson | U of Western Ontario | London, Ont. |
Coach | Dave Hollinger | U of Waterloo | Waterloo, Ont. |
Coach | Carla Munch | U of Waterloo | Cambridge, Ont. |
About the Summer Universiade
The Summer Universiade is an international multi-sport event that
takes place every two years and is second only to the Olympic Games
in the number of participating athletes and countries. The
Universiade is open to competitors who are at least 17 and less
than 28 years of age as of January 1 in the year of the Games.
Participants must be full-time students at a post-secondary
institution (university, college, CEGEP) or have graduated from a
post-secondary institution in the year preceding the event.
About Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of
university sport in Canada. Fifty-two universities, 10,000
student-athletes and 550 coaches vie for 21 national championships
in 12 different sports. CIS also provides high performance
international opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter
and Summer Universiades, as well as numerous world university
championships. For further information, visit www.cis-sic.ca.
Source: CIS Communications