Ringette Canada – Ottawa, ON – April 25, 2017 – Thirty-two of Canada’s top ringette athletes will gather this weekend in Toronto in the hopes of securing a spot on Ringette Canada’s senior national team. Following the selection camp, which runs from April 27-30 at the Tomken Twin Arena (4495 Tomken Road) in Mississauga, athletes will continue to train for competition at the 2017 world ringette championship that will take place from November 27 to December 3, 2017 at Iceland Arena in Mississauga.

During the camp, there will be three inter-squad games that will be open to the public:

Friday, April 28: 6-8pm, Tomken Twin Arena – Rink 2

Saturday, April 29: 7-9pm, Tomken Twin Arena – Rink 2

Sunday, April 30: 10:45am-12:45pm, Tomken Twin Arena – Rink 1

The athletes vying for a spot on Ringette Canada’s senior national team are as follows:

Alberta

Breanna Beck – Red Deer

Dailyn Bell – Lacombe

Jamie Bell – Lacombe

Shaundra Bruvall – Calgary

Annie Debaji – Edmonton *

Robyn Gillespie – Sherwood Park

Ellen Hoban – Calgary

Dani Holliday – Edmonton

Paola Romeo – Calgary

Christianne Varty – Calgary

Lindsay Vink – Lacombe

Manitoba

Amy Clarkson – St. Andrews

Ontario

Sheri Adams – Dorchester

Allison Biewald – Ottawa

Melissa Breslin – Oshawa

Jessie Callander – Oakville

Taylor Campbell – Tillsonburg

Jacqueline Gaudet – Waterdown *

Chantal Gauthier – Pickering

Sydney Granger – Dorchester

Erika Kiviaho – Sudbury

Molly Lewis – Nepean

Paige Nosal – St. Clements *

Shae Reaman – Mount Forest

Abby Richardson – Guelph

Erica Voss – Toronto

Kaitlyn Youldon – Ottawa

Kelsey Youldon – Ottawa

Quebec

Maude Charbonneau – Ste-Julie

Chantal St-Laurent – Gatineau

New Brunswick

Martine Caissie – Bouctouche

Jasmine Leblanc – Dieppe

*Athlete has been granted an exemption from participating in the April selection camp

Barb Bautista (Calgary) leads the senior national team as head coach, along with assistant coach Sharolyn Wouters (Port Perry, ON), head athletic therapist Connie Klassen (Victoria), mental performance consultant Carl Nienhuis (Abbotsford), and strength and conditioning consultant Nick Westcott (Ottawa).

Following the camp, athletes moving on to the next phase of selection will be announced by May 14^th. Athletes will continue to train for the upcoming world championship with training camps being held in Calgary from June 15-18 and Mississauga from October 5-8.

About Ringette

Ringette is a Canadian sport that was invented in 1963 in North Bay, Ontario by the late Sam Jacks. There are currently over 30,000 players on nearly 2,000 teams across Canada, with over 1,500 officials and nearly 8000 coaches. Internationally, it is played in more than a half a dozen other countries around the world. Ringette has been designated a Heritage Sport by Sport Canada and as part of the Sport for Life movement, ringette is well advanced at adapting Sport Canada’s Long Term Athlete Development model. As a proud member of True Sport, Ringette Canada is committed to sport that is values-based and principle-driven. For more information, please refer to the Ringette Canada Web site at www.ringette.ca. 

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