{"id":10484,"date":"2019-06-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:00:12","slug":"michelle-russell-named-to-canadian-team-for-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10484","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Russell named to Canadian team for worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WAVERLEY:<\/strong>\n Fall River\u2019s Michelle Russell is one of four Nova Scotia canoe\/kayak \nathletes named to Team Canada for the World Championships, scheduled for\n the summer in Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russell, who competes out of Cheema; Mark \nde Jonge; Alex Scott; and Dartmouth product Connor Fitzpatrick are on \nthe list of 20 athletes who will don the Maple Leaf for the Aug. 21-25 \nevent in Szeged, Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worlds are an integral competition \nfor the athletes as preparations ramp up for the 2020 Olympics in Japan \nare underway. The worlds serve as an Olympic qualification event as \nCanadian paddlers look to secure boats for Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the boats are secured, Canadians will compete to crew them at trials scheduled for next spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a release, Canoe Kayak Canada said it selected its roster after recent World Cup competitions in Poland and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\n Canadian team we selected following the World Cups showed several \nopportunities to reach finals, be on the podium and qualify for the \nOlympics later this summer,\u201d Canoe Kayak Canada\u2019s chief technical \nofficer Graham Barton said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLEY: Fall River\u2019s Michelle Russell is one of four Nova Scotia canoe\/kayak athletes named to Team Canada for the World Championships, scheduled for the summer in Hungary. Russell, who competes out of Cheema; Mark de Jonge; Alex Scott; and Dartmouth product Connor Fitzpatrick are on the list of 20 athletes who will don the Maple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[400,2,403],"class_list":["post-10484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-cheema","tag-fall-river","tag-michelle-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484","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=10484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}