Athlete of the Month

Stettler Rugby Star is ASDC Female Athlete of the Month

Published

1 year ago

The Alberta Sport Development Centre – Central (ASDC-C) is pleased to announce the ASDC-Central Female Athlete of the Month for May 2018 is Emily Brown.

Emily Brown is an 17 year old, grade 12 student at William E. Hay Secondary School in Stettler. The Big Valley, AB resident is a competitive Rugby athlete.

Before she discovered rugby, Emily was a multi-sport athlete (all school sports plus hockey and fastball). In Grade 11, Emily led the WE Hay Wildcats to a Provincial Championship in Basketball. In the spring of Grade 11 Emily started her Rugby journey with the Stettler Wildcats. It was love at first sight! While just starting out as a player, Emily has committed herself to developing the sport in the Stettler area by helping to deliver school and community clinics. Emily joined the Titans Rugby Club in Red Deer last summer and was part of the Titans incredible run of success.

2018 started on an incredible note as Emily was selected to Captain the Red Deer/Central Alberta Rugby 7’s team. They captured their first tournament championship the same month.

This spring, Emily was chosen to represent Alberta as part of Rugby Alberta’s 7’s team that competed at Rugby Canada’s 7’s Nationals in Vancouver. They brought home the Silver medal. Emily will continue to compete for Titans and Alberta during the coming summer.

An excellent student/athlete, Emily excels on the pitch and in the classroom where she is an Honors student. Emily will attend the University of Alberta this fall. She’ll major in Kinesiology and will try to crack the Pandas Rugby roster.

Emily’s strong work ethic, her undeniable athletic abilities and her training experiences with ASDC-Central will ensure that Emily continues to grow, develop and succeed in her Rugby career!

ASDC-Central thanks Tom Bast Sports for celebrating the ASDC-Central Athlete of the Month recipients by the provision of commemorative apparel for each recipient.

For further information regarding this athlete, the ASDC-Central and our programs, please contact Miles Kydd @ miles.kydd@rdc.ab.ca or 403-342-3231.

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Athlete of the Month

Olympic dream alive for Central Alberta’s Elle Couture

Published

3 weeks ago

August 24, 2019

Duane Rolheiser

Elle Couture posing with her medal haul from the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games!

The letters HWPO are embroidered on Elle Couture’s swim bag. Elle’s been swimming competitively for 5 years and HWPO has been with her for almost as long. The letters stand for Hard Work Pays Off. Elle says her dad always gives her that advice. It’s really starting to pay off.

Before any swimmer ever achieves a provincial or a national ranking… there’s hundreds and then thousands of hours spent in the pool. Before school, after school, on weekends, that’s when the good swimmer becomes great. The races themselves are just a compilation of all the time and effort put into increasing speed and stamina, and working on the minute details and techniques.

As the summer of 2019 progressed Elle’s results kept getting better and better and as she prepares to start another school year, her dreams of representing Canada one day are very much alive. Elle’s times have qualified her for the 2020 Canadian Swim Trials. Since 2020 is an Olympic year there’s an outside chance for Elle to qualify, but it’s much more likely she’ll be coming into her own in four more years.

Earlier this summer we shared her provincial results.. Here they are again:

Summer Championships Alberta age group 13-14 July 4-7 Edmonton, Ab

50m Breaststroke – Bronze medal

200m Breaststroke – Bronze medal

100m Breaststroke 100m Freestyle 4th place

Best times in these 3 events

Later in July Elle swam at the Canadian Junior Nationals, where she made a strong showing:

Canadian Jr Nationals Calgary Alberta August July 24-29

Qualified for 4 events.

100m Breaststroke 6th in Canada

200m Breaststroke 5th in Canada ( having to do a head to head swim off with one other girl to qualify in 8th )

Elle came back in finals to place 5th after entering in 8th position.

The best was yet to come… As Elle competed for Team Alberta in the Western Canada Summer Games and you might say she cleaned up! Here are the results:

Western Canada Summer Games – Swift Current Sk Phase 1 August 9-13

Elle was chosen by Swim Alberta to compete in the Games for her 100-200 Breast stroke abilities during the qualifying period Spring 2019. A total of 33 swimmers from across Alberta represented Team Alberta. Elle traveled with Team Alberta August 5-8 to Calgary for team practices and Team building at UofC campus.

A total of 4 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 and 2 Bronze

Events:

50m Breaststroke – GOLD

100m Breaststroke- GOLD

200m Breaststroke- BRONZE

50m Freestyle-SILVER

50m Fly -4th

3 Relays

4x100m IM relay female – GOLD

4x200m Free mixed relay – GOLD

4x100m Free mixed relay – BRONZE

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And here’s a note from Elle’s mom:

The experience of swimming on behalf of Alberta and being with such a cohesive group of swimmers have really motivated Elle to work hard so that she can be considered for other Team Alberta travel teams for next season 2019-2020.

Elle has qualified for the Canadian Trials in March-April 2020 with her 100 Breaststroke and is 0.11 seconds off qualifying for the 200 Breaststroke. This is the Olympic Trial year and meet and Elle is hoping to swim well enough to be considered for other travel teams for Canada as she will be 15 and making the Olympic team is a dream but perhaps will have to wait for the next Olympic cycle. ” No Opportunity Wasted ” is something that her mental skills coach Doug Swanson has helped her work on.

Her goals have also expanded, she is working towards a chance to be chosen for Canada Games in Summer 2021 which will be held in the Niagara Region Ontario.

Here’s a video feature on Elle produced when she was just starting to show the potentials she has now begun to realize…

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ASDC Athlete of the Month, named to Canada’s U20 Pan Am Games team

Published

3 months ago

June 20, 2019

Alberta Sport Development Centre

It’s time to take another look at this profile video of Red Deer’s Jeremiah Lauzon. Lauzon is lighting it up at meets around Alberta this season and that will mean a couple of big trips this summer. The Red Deer Titans Track and Field club member started the season with Canada’s best U20 time in the 200m and has since bettered that time. His personal best 200M time is now 20.90 which is putting him on the national and international track and field radar.

Lauzon has been named to Canada’s national team and he’s going to be representing Canada in the U20 Pan Am Games in Costa Rica in July!

Check out this video profile of Jeremiah courtesy of Alberta Sport Development Centre – Central Alberta.

The Alberta Sport Development Centre – Central (ASDC-C) is pleased to announce that the ASDC-Central Athlete of the Month for May 2019 is Jeremiah Lauzon. Jeremiah Lauzon is an 18 year old Red Deer, AB resident, Grade 12 student at Lindsay Thurber High School (LTCHS) and a competitive track & field athlete specializing in the sprints.

Jeremiah will represent Lindsay Thurber this coming weekend at ASAA Track & Field Provincials in Calgary in the 100M, 200M, 4 x 100M relay and the 4 x 400M relay. Last week, Jeremy captured all 4 events in the Zone Track & Field meet in Red Deer, winning the boys Aggregate Title.

Running for the Red Deer Titans Track Club this May, at a Track meet in Calgary, Jeremiah ran the best 200M race of his career to date, posting a time of 21.20 seconds. This time translates to the #1 ranking in Canada in the U20 age group, the #2 ranking in Canada in the U23 age group, and #11 overall men’s ranking in Canada at the 200M distance. This time also met the 200M qualifying standard for the Pan-American Games beginning July 24 in Lima, Peru. Jeremiah must await an announcement from Athletics Canada on whether he will be selected for the Pan-Am team.

Jeremiah graduates this month from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and has accepted a scholarship to Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, BC and will begin classes this fall. SFU competes at the NCAA Division II level which will provide Jeremiah many opportunities to train and compete in the US moving forward. Jeremiah’s long term goal would be to compete in a summer Olympic Games for Haiti, his country of birth.

With Jeremiah’s strong work ethic, his undeniable athletic abilities and his training experiences with ASDC-Central, he will surely continue to grow, develop and succeed in his athletics career!

Anchor leg of 4X100 relay gold medal zone performance.

ASDC-Central thanks Tom Bast Sports for celebrating the ASDC-Central Athlete of the Month recipients by the provision of commemorative apparel for each recipient.

ASDC-Central Athlete of the Month – Jeremiah Lauzon

For further information regarding this athlete, the ASDC-Central and our programs, please contact Miles Kydd @ miles.kydd@rdc.ab.ca or 403-342-3231.