Athlete of the Month

Vault specialist from Exelta Gymnastics is ASDC Athlete of the Month

Name: Vinyasa with a View
Start: 2019-9-22T14-14-00-00
End: 2019-9-22T16-16-00-00
Location: Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre

Published

1 year ago

Alberta Sport Development Centre

The Alberta Sport Development Centre – Central is pleased to announce that the ASDC-Central Female Athlete of the Month for March 2018 is Ruby Butler.

Ruby Butler is a 15 year old, grade 10 student at Notre Dame High School, Red Deer resident and a competitive Artistic Gymnast at Exelta Gymnastics for the past ten years.

Ruby began gymnastics when she was 14 months old, and loved somersaulting, climbing and trampolining. She began competitive gymnastics when she was 4 years old and is still excited every day to go the gym.

Ruby maintains Honors academic status at school while training over 22 hours per week at Exelta as well as coaching in the Exelta recreation program every week.

Ruby excels at the Vault event of competitive Artistic Gymnastics and this has seen her on the podium for Vault in almost every competition she has entered this season.

Now in her 3rd year with ASDC-C, Ruby and her coach, Barb Bilsborrow, both agree that ASDC has helped Ruby with the mental side of her sport and has allowed her overcome some of her specific fears on the balance beam and allows her to focus on the positive. With Ruby’s strong work ethic, her undeniable athletic abilities and her training experiences with ASDC-Central she will surely continue to grow, develop and succeed in her Artistic Gymnastics 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.

Related Topics:ASDC ASDC Central Barb Bilsborrow Exelta Gymnastics feature Ruby Butler

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Athlete of the Month

Olympic dream alive for Central Alberta’s Elle Couture

Published

4 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…

Athlete of the Month

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.

september, 2019

tue06augAll Daysun29sepHot Mess - Erin Boake featured at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery(All Day)

Event Details

Hot Mess: A Residency in Motherhood The exhibition Hot Mess: A Residency in Motherhood by local Artist Erin Boake will be on display at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery (MAG) July 20^thto September 29^th, 2019. In her exhibit Hot Mess, Boake explores and embraces the chaotic, cluttered and cyclical nature of motherhood. Boake’s self directed Residency in Motherhood, is an ongoing and evolving experiment in seeing and embracing the beautiful side of the clutter, and the raw, sticky, messy side of parenting. This project is for the invaluable, behind the scenes, household heroes we call Mom.

“It has been thrilling to watch Erin Boake mature as an artist,” says Lorna Johnson, Executive Director. “She has mastered her drawing and painting skills and she continues to challenge herself with creative new projects. Hot Mess shows that even the most mundane of household tasks can be fuel for a creative mind and a source of beauty. We are very pleased to present Erin’s work at the MAG.” Erin Boake was born and raised in Red Deer, where she completed her first two years of visual arts at Red Deer College, before transferring to Alberta College of Art & Design. She graduated with a degree in Painting in 2003. Erin spent many years traveling and living in various communities around Canada and abroad. Between 2008 and 2013, Erin had the opportunity to live and work in Iqaluit, Nunavut, teaching drawing and design at the Nunavut Arctic College. Erin has been teaching art for 17 years, and in the last year, has taken over the role of owner and operator of Artribute Art School, alongside her own studio practice. Erin currently lives in Red Deer with her husband and two small girls, and spends her time doing laundry when she’s not painting it.

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August 6 (Tuesday) - September 29 (Sunday)

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sun22sep2:00 pm4:00 pmVinyasa with a View2:00 pm - 4:00 pm MT Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre, 120 College Circle Event Organized By: Lululemon Red Deer

Event Details

Together with Breathing Room Yoga Studio, lululemon Red Deer presents “Vinyasa with a View”. This unique rooftop yoga class will leave you refreshed, energized and full of gratitude. Live music and inspirational local yoga instructors Bonnee Gregg and Krista VandenBrink will guide you through this unforgettable class on the spectacular patio of the Gary W. Harris building at Red Deer College.

All ticket sales will go directly to the Central Alberta Women's Outreach Society, an agency devoted to supporting women affected by family violence, help meet their basic needs, and find solutions to creating a safer, healthier and more secure life for themselves and their families.

Over the past years the organization has effectively adapted and increased programming to meet increasingly complex issues within communities and the people they serve. Their programs have evolved providing many services to women, men, and children who are affected by domestic violence, homelessness, and the effects of poverty.

For tickets CLICK HERE

The class is suitable for all levels and will start at 2pm Sunday, September 22, 2019.

This is a BYOM event (bring your own mat) with a limited number of mats available to borrow on a first come first served basis.