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ENFIELD:<\/strong> Two East Hants wrestling twin brothers are excited about sharing in the experience of both competing at the 2022 Canada Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luken and Makaulay Lawson said both being able to go and represent Nova Scotia on such a big stage is a great feeling. The two have been wrestling for 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing able to showcase our hard work as a family gives me great pride,\u201d said Makaulay. \u201cWe always push each other to new limits, and I believe this will help us compete well at the 2022 Canada Games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said he is honoured to don the colours of N.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a great once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which I put a lot of time and energy into,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISING:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”161″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n When he learned he had made the team, Makaulay said he was super excited and super proud for and of himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve been dreaming of this since I was in Grade 8 and I was a year too young to compete,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the past years since then I have put countless hours into my wrestling, and I am so proud to say that I\u2019m representing my home province on a national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luken is excited to represent my province on a bigger stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m also excited for the opportunity to meet all different types of athletes,\u201d said Luken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said learning both he and Makaulay made the team sent him onto Cloud Nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was proud to see us both be able to show our abilities on the bigger stage,\u201d Luken said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISING:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”174″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luken said his aim is top three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy expectations are to wrestle to my best abilities,\u2019 he said, \u201cand chase that gold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Makaulay feels his training and hard work will serve him well at the Canada Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have faith in myself that I will put everything I have into each and every match,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo matter if I win or lose each match, I will leave the mat proud that I put everything I had into my wrestling and I will have no regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”162″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”156″] ENFIELD: Two East Hants wrestling twin brothers are excited about sharing in the experience of both competing at the 2022 Canada Games. Luken and Makaulay Lawson said both being able to go and represent Nova Scotia on such a big stage is a great feeling. The two have been wrestling for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,21],"tags":[4010,196,679],"class_list":["post-30506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-sports","tag-2022-canada-games","tag-east-hants","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506","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=30506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/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=30506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}