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Para Sport: Swim, Athletics and Training 2022-2023 Highlights
Para Sport: Swim, Athletics and Training 2022-2023 Highlights
53 Fall Swimmers & Athletes 37 Fall Volunteers
73 Winter Swimmers & Athletes 52 Winter Volunteers
2 New Swim Programs
Adaptive Learn to Swim and U12 Development Para Swim
Partnership Events
Partnership Events
Para Sport Try It Day: November 12, 2022
10 athletes registered
Participants tried athletics, powerlifting, swim, and para hockey with TSC and partners
Youth Summit: February 4-5. 2023
12 attendees
With ALACD partners, the event brought together youth experiencing disability from across Canada to network and learn together
The Steadward Bears: Canada Summer Games 2022
The Steadward Bears: Canada Summer Games 2022
We want to offer a huge congratulations to all of our Steadward Bears who traveled to Niagara, Ontario for the Canada Summer Games! We are so proud of Morgan Cathcart, Matthew Dysktra, Torie Langdale, Maggie Slessor, Britney Volkman, and coaches Maegan Ciesielski and Evelyn Kostiniuk. These athletes were part of the biggest provincial para athletics contingent at the games, and the best overall placing of Alberta in track and field in Canada Summer Games history!
Results included personal bests for Matthew Dysktra in men’s wheelchair racing, a 6th place finish for Torie Langdale in women’s para shot put, Maggie Slessor with a personal best and Bronze medal in women’s 400m wheelchair racing, and Britney Volkman placed Gold in both the 400m and 1500m women’s wheelchair racing.
“The thing I love most about wheelchair racing is getting to race against other people, and improving my personal bests. It's been fun to be surrounded by other athletes with disabilities from across Canada and compete with them. Traveling across Canada has also been a huge highlight of racing.”
Britney Volkman, on The Canada Summer Games
Para Swim Makes Waves!
Para Swim Makes Waves!
Para Swim at The Steadward Centre continues to grow in success with long term athletes, new athletes, and swimmers who are new to the water!
Long term para swim athlete Morgan Cathcart’s 2022 season highlights included Gold in the 400m freestyle at the Ken Demchuk Invitational and 4th place in the 100m breaststroke at the 2022 Canada Summer Games. Morgan summarised her long term participation in para swim, “Swimming means freedom, community and health. On the daily, I struggle to use my body to its fullest potential due to medical and physical barriers. It feels like my body wasn’t made to be on land. In the water I can move my body in the ways it was meant to moved. I have also been able to build a super supportive community who have gotten me through some of the hardest days”.
New para swimmer Delaney Frame joined The Steadward Bears after a ‘try-it’ day in December 2022, “I found a great program at TSC as part of the para swim team that has allowed me to significantly increase my confidence in the water and improve my swimming skills. Working with the amazing coaches and interacting with my teammates has had a huge positive impact on my recovery both mentally and physically."
And, TSC had brand new swimmers join us in the pool this year as the para swim program launched a learn to swim aspect to our programming options!
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