{"id":10430,"date":"2019-06-04T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10430"},"modified":"2019-06-04T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T02:00:27","slug":"fall-rivers-deveau-to-rep-canada-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10430","title":{"rendered":"Fall River&#8217;s Deveau to rep Canada in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>AMHERST, MASS.:<\/strong> Bridget Deveau will don the Maple Leaf and represent Canada this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n Fall River track star will be part of the U Sports delegation at the \n2019 FISU Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy, set for July 3-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada\n will compete in 12 sports, including athletics, basketball (men and \nwomen), diving, fencing, gymnastics (artistic and rhythmic), soccer \n(women only), swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, rugby 7s (men and \nwomen), volleyball (men and women) and water polo (women only). All \nteams were selected in partnership with each respective National Sports \nOrganization (NSO) or are being managed by the U SPORTS national office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full delegation totals over 300 including student-athletes, coaches, staff, and medical personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\n Mission Staff is looking forward to delivering a great experience for \nour Canadian delegation,\u201d said Team Canada Chef de Mission Ari Grossman.\n \u201cRepresenting Canada at any sporting event is a huge honour and \nresponsibility and we are pleased to welcome all team members and \ncongratulate them on this exciting accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate \nthe milestone 30thedition and 60thanniversary of the World University \nSummer Games, the event returns to its first home, where it was \noriginally held in Turin, Italy in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada finished in 16<sup>th<\/sup>at\n the 2017 FISU Summer Universiade in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei with 13\n medals (four gold, five silver, four bronze). More than 9,300 athletes \nfrom 128 countries will compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs the Olympics of University \nSport, the FISU Games are an excellent opportunity for all of our \nstudent-athletes to compete against fellow world-class talent, as they \nset their sights on gold,\u201d said Lisette Johnson-Stapley, Chief Sport \nOfficer at U SPORTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deveau will compete in heptathlon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMHERST, MASS.: Bridget Deveau will don the Maple Leaf and represent Canada this summer. The Fall River track star will be part of the U Sports delegation at the 2019 FISU Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy, set for July 3-14. Canada will compete in 12 sports, including athletics, basketball (men and women), diving, fencing, gymnastics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[306,2,5,545,307,546,547,548],"class_list":["post-10430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-bridget-deveau","tag-fall-river","tag-lockview-high","tag-team-canada","tag-track-and-field","tag-u-sports","tag-umass-athletics","tag-universiade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}