{"id":55701,"date":"2025-05-29T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=54824"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:30:00","slug":"braveheart-swimmers-named-to-team-n-s-for-canada-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=55701","title":{"rendered":"Four Braveheart swimmers named to Team N.S. for Canada Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;238&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EAST HANTS\/LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> Four Sackville-Bedford Bravehearts have been endorsed to join Team N.S. at the Canada Games this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four will be part of Nova Scotia\u2019s entry at the Games, set for Aug. 8-15 in St. John\u2019s, NL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another piece showing that Canada Games has taken a step towards inclusion with the addition of Special Olympic and Paralympic categories in Athletics and Swimming at the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection was made based on performance at a time trial this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Named to the Canada Games were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maxim Thibault<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landon Arbeau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellie Hearn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three produced the fastest times and have been selected to represent SONS on Team NS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three will be joined by Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens Athlete Aiya Peters and another Bravehearts Swimmer, Dylan Balmaceda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balmaceda qualified as a Paralympic Swimmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Staff Sgt. Mike Blamaceda has been selected to the coaching staff for Swim NS Canada Games Team as the coach for these athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is honoured to continue to give back to the community through this selection as he does as an RCMP officer in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;238&#8243;] EAST HANTS\/LOWER SACKVILLE: Four Sackville-Bedford Bravehearts have been endorsed to join Team N.S. at the Canada Games this summer. The four will be part of Nova Scotia\u2019s entry at the Games, set for Aug. 8-15 in St. John\u2019s, NL. This is another piece showing that Canada Games has taken a step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,21],"tags":[312,148,2,48,8446,73,731,255],"class_list":["post-55701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-sports","tag-athletics","tag-canada-games","tag-fall-river","tag-n-s","tag-sackville-bedford-bravehearts","tag-special-olympics-n-s","tag-swimming","tag-team-nova-scotia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55701","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=55701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}