Former captain of the Gee-Gees rugby 15s, Watcham-Roy, from Gatineau, started playing rugby in Grade 9 because her brother played. Only the women’s team will be in Rio to represent Canada on the rugby pitch. Natasha Watcham-Roy (BHSc ’14) and her teammates will make history at the Rio Olympics: rugby sevens is a new sport at these Summer Games (along with golf). She plans to write her bar exams after Rio. Rio is her first Olympic Games and she’ll compete in the women’s eight and women’s pair. This was after rowing in five World Cup championships and never missing the podium. From Georgetown, Ont., she was named the 2015 Senior Athlete of the Year by Rowing Canada. (Photo: Claus Andersen/Athletics Canada)Ĭristy Nurse (LLB ’13), six feet tall and originally a basketball player, switched to rowing at age 19. She’ll compete in both the marathon and 10,000m at Rio, her first Olympics. Today, Marchant is a criminal defence attorney in Tennessee. While studying law - at both uOttawa and Michigan State University - she took up road racing and only got into elite marathon-running at age 28. From London, Ont., her first sport was figure skating and she ran to cross train. Lanni Marchant (LLB ’11) is Canada’s fastest woman in both the marathon and half marathon. At Rio 2016, he’ll race in the 4 x 100m relay. He was part of the Canadian contingent at the 2012 Olympics in London, but did not compete. A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. Makinde won two gold medals (200 metres and 4 x 100m relay) at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson. It is essential for the production of steel almost all of the world’s. He went on to become the second-fastest high school athlete in Canada in the 200 metres. Iron ore is the source of primary iron for the world’s iron and steel industries, according to the U.S. Segun Makinde (BCom ’14) of Ottawa started running track at age 15, encouraged to compete by a high school teacher. Rio 2016, where he’ll compete in the 110m hurdles, is Kaba’s first Olympics. At the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, he won a gold medal (110m hurdles), but missed the finals at the 2015 Pan Am Games by just. He began competing for Canada soon after becoming a citizen in 2012. Kaba moved with his family from Guinea to Canada in 2007 and started running at age 11.
Sekou Kaba of Ottawa is a uOttawa criminology student and former Gee-Gees track star. As you watch athletics, rowing and rugby sevens (one of two inaugural sports at these Games), give a shout-out to these Olympians doing us all proud as part of Team Canada at Rio 2016. They will compete in 28 sports (and 42 disciplines) at 34 venues.Īmong the top athletes representing Canada at the Games are five with strong ties to uOttawa. The eyes of the world will be on Brazil from August 5 to 21 as about 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries converge on Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sekou Kaba on his way to qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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