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Ultimate Frisbee: Coming Soon to a High School near You?

By Casey Leger players themselves. “It’s about honesty
and sportsmanship,” she says. “There is no
or a lot of students, going back to school room for tempers.”
Fin September means a return to athletics
as well as academics. This year, there’s Another thing that sets Ultimate Frisbee
a new sport on offer, and Saint Joseph’s apart from other sports is the fact that it’s co-
Catholic Secondary School’s Nicole ed: male and female athletes play together.
Desjardins is coaching it for the Panthers: According to Coach Desjardins, teams field
Ultimate Frisbee. seven players at a time: four boys and three
girls. “There’s significant interest in the
Desjardins, a veteran of Ultimate Frisbee’s sport here,” she says about St. Joe’s. “We’re
Ottawa circuit, is very enthusiastic about the hoping to put two teams together, and we’ll
sport’s high school inaugural season. “It’s a need about twenty-eight athletes to do that.”
sport for everyone,” says Desjardins. “It’ll
attract a lot of different athletes.” The list of SDG schools interested in
participating in this year’s Ultimate Frisbee
One of the things that Desjardins likes the league hasn’t been finalized, but Coach
most about Ultimate Frisbee at the secondary Desjardins expects to see a schedule soon.
level is the fact that it’s a sport without a If there’s enough interest in the sport,
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referee. Disputes on the field are settled Desjardins believes it will be an EOSSA and
by mediation and negotiation between the OFSAA level event. Photo Submitted
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Sports enthusiasts watched sports’ history unfold recently when Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu stopped Serena Williams in straight sets to win the US
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Open Grand Slam title. In your opinion, has this young teenager managed to raise her notoriety and status in Canadian sports to the levels of a Wayne Gretzky
or Sidney Crosby?

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Gilles Gaudet - Sports Enthusiast - Like many of you, I’ve watched about as much women’s tennis as I did professional bull riding until Bianca came onto
the scene, first at the Canadian Open and then the US Open. Then we couldn’t get enough of Bianca. Bianca is a phenom, but like all phenoms Bianca has to
add continued success and longevity to her resume to attain the status that Gretzky and Crosby have achieved. You only have to look at recent Canadian tennis
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history to realize that greatness can be fleeting. In 2014 Genie Bouchard had what many would consider a better year on the WTA tour than Bianca’s whirlwind
2019. During 2014 Genie went to the finals at Wimbledon, semi-finals of the French and Australian Opens and to the 4th round of the US Open. She was the
Bianca Andreescu of 2014 in Canada, and in the world of women’s tennis. Since then Bouchard has struggled, her ranking has fallen from a high of 5th in the
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world (ironically that’s the same number as Bianca’s present ranking) to her present 149th ranking. Don’t feel sorry for Bouchard though, her career earnings
in tennis alone have brought her a little over 6 million dollars in revenue. In fact you’re more likely to see Bouchard in a Sports Illustrated magazine than on a
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tennis court. To achieve the status of Gretzky or Crosby, Andreescu will probably have to dominate the tennis world for the next ten years or so. She’ll need to
win a few more Grand Slam titles, Wimbledon included, and probably about 20 other WTA titles. She’s an incredible story, a talented athlete, and exactly what
tennis in Canada needed to propel the sport to new heights. She still a long way off from being considered a Canadian sports icon, let’s hope that she’s successful
in maintaining her incredible 2019.
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Jake Lapierre - Conditioning Coach - Earlier this year very few Canadians recognized the name “Bianca Andreescu”; a young tennis player from Mississauga
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Ontario, listed No. 118 in WTA rankings. At the age of 19, Bianca’s tenacity on the courts winning Indian River, Roger’s Cup, and the US Open, as well as
her poise and charm with fans and the respect towards fellow athletes skyrocketed her popularity in Canada and around the world. She truly has become an
inspiration to many Canadians, especially an inspiration to young Canadians by demonstrating that young people can do anything. Her win in New York made her
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a national hero, and her final against Serena attracted record TV audiences on TSN and RDS as she elevated the game of tennis in Canada to eclipse hockey for a
full month; what an accomplishment! Has this young teenager managed to raise her popularity and status in Canadian sports to the levels of a Wayne Gretzky or
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Sidney Crosby? Bianca has certainly carved her name in stone in Canadian Tennis history and sits amongst some great Canadian sports figures; the names Gretzky
and Crosby are iconic because of their talent and the longevity of their success.
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Jim Riddell - Seaway Karate Club -Bianca Andreescu has made her presence known on the Women’s Tennis Circuit. In January she won her first WTA title at
Newport Beach and followed up by winning another at Indian Wells. On August 11th in Toronto, Andreescu won the Rogers’ Cup, becoming the first Canadian
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in fifty years to do so. Less than one month later she defeated Serena Williams in the final to capture the US Open title. Just three years into her professional
career Andreescu is now ranked #5 in the world by the WTA. Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, who played for 19 and 17 years professionally, are considered
two of the greatest hockey players of all time. Together they dominate the NHL record books with Gretzky still holding sixty NHL records twenty years after his
retirement. Their status is so great that they each
Greater Cornwall & Areas Community Sports Newspaperhave their own statue – Gretzky’s outside Rogers’ Place in Edmonton, and Lemieux’s outside the PPG Paints
Arena in Pittsburgh. Bianca Andreescu is a very talented athlete who has some very significant accomplishments, but she will have to continue to play at this
level for many more years before she reaches the status of Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
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