Ashley Menagh has a well-deserved reputation of being able to do everything and anything to make a wrestling meet run successfully. On Wednesday afternoon at Canada Games Park during team...
Wrestler Zubin Gatta is loving the opportunity to compete in the Canada Summer Games close to home. “It’s amazing that it’s at my home court,” the Grade 12 student at...
Shawn Lally was on a promising path in his wrestling career. While a student at Louise Arbour Secondary School, the 23-year-old Brampton resident lost in the bronze medal semifinals at...
Brock Wrestling Club member Hannah Taylor is in a new phase of her wrestling career. The 24-year-old Summerside, P.E.I., native is enjoying her first year away from school and work....
Amaan Gulacha wasn’t lacking in confidence heading into the Canadian junior wrestling championships. “I train like I am in second and I compete like I am No. 1,” the Brock...
After winning an Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations wrestling title in her Grade 12 year, 19-year-old Sarnia native Brianna Fraser decided to head to Brock University to pursue the...
Mia Friesen’s gold medal at the recent national junior wrestling championships will help erase the memories of her first appearance at the Canadian championships. “My first nationals I was a...
Richard DesChatelets Jr. finished his Ontario University Athletics’ wrestling career in the same way he started it. The 23-year-old Niagara Falls native won the 90-kilogram OUA title Saturday at Brock...
The beat goes on for the Brock men’s and women's wrestling programs. Following a one-year absence because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario University Athletics wrestling championships returned to centre...
Multi-sport Mia was up to her usual tricks Saturday afternoon. Last fall, Mia Friesen was named the Ontario University Athletics field lacrosse rookie of the year and Saturday, the Governor...
Brock wrestler Samantha Romano got a lot more than she bargained for when she stepped on the podium Saturday to receive her Ontario University Athletics 50-kilogram gold medal at Brock...
Stephanie Fazzari lovingly refers to her twin sister, Michelle, as Mother Teresa. That nicknamed is well-earned for the 2016 Olympian and long-time member of the Brock Wrestling Club. “I’m a...
As she reaches the end of her storied wrestling career, Michelle Fazzari has sought out a new beginning. In the second week of January, the long-time Brock Wrestling Club member...
Jevon Balfour thought he had taken the second to last step in his quest to represent Canada at the Tokyo Olympics when he defeated Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club’s Jasmit Phulka...
Armed with a government permit, the Brock Wrestling Club’s coaches and high performance, national team athletes recently returned to the mats. With Brock University not available for training, two separate...
For the past year and a half, multi-talented Mia Friesen has been agonizing over whether to pursue track and field or wrestling at the post-secondary level. “I cried a lot,”...
Heather Sweezey would be the first to admit a teaching career wasn’t one of her lifelong dreams. “I actually went into teaching because I had just finished my first degree...
A breakout performance at last December’s Olympic trials has resulted in Richard DesChatelets Jr. being selected to Wrestling Canada’s NextGen program. The 21-year-old Niagara Falls native it made it to...
Zubin Gatta is pictured above celebrating his OFSAA gold medal with parents Kekoo and Farah. Zubin Gatta headed into the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations’...
Like most people in Ontario, wrestler Michelle Fazzari is going stir crazy coping with social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has gone hiking, trained a little and on Tuesday...
The Brock women’s wrestling team won its ninth straight U SPORTS title Saturday at Brock. Photo by STEPHEN LEITHWOOD. The Brock women’s wrestling team won its ninth straight U SPORTS...
The Brock men's wrestling team won its seventh straight U SPORTS championship Saturday at Brock. STEPHEN LEITHWOOD photo. Led by gold medals from Ligrit Sadiku, Cruiz Manning and Clayton Pye...
The newly crowned 64-kilogram boys Southern Ontario Secondary Schools Association wrestling champion was anything but an immediate sensation in the sport. “I tried it in Grade 9 and didn’t really...
Mia Friesen took the first step Thursday towards winning her third provincial wrestling championship in 2020. Competing at the Southern Ontario Secondary Schools Association in her home gym, the Grade...
Blessed Trinity won the boys, girls and combined team titles at Thursday’s Southern Ontario Secondary Schools Association wrestling championships at Governor Simcoe. Finishing second and third in the team standings...
Richard DesChatelets Jr. has no problem wrestling up a weight class for the Brock University men’s wrestling team. “I do what the team needs me to do,” the 21-year-old Niagara...
Jevon Balfour is one step closer to his dream of representing Canada at the Tokyo Olympics. Last weekend in Calgary, the 25-year-old Brock Wrestling Club member defeated Jasmit Phulka of...
Jevon Balfour’s Olympic dream is still very much alive. Last August, the five-time defending Canadian senior wrestling champion was grappling with an awful predicament. He had a detached retina in...
At the conclusion of the Olympic wrestling trials Saturday night, Clayton Pye looked like he had gone 10 tough rounds with Mike Tyson. The Brock Wrestling Club member had a...
About an hour after winning the Canadian Olympic wrestling trials and his first national title Saturday, Ligrit Sadiku was still trying to process his memorable night. “It was surreal and...
