Canadian women strike Pan Am gold in basketball

In the morning session, Shawnacy Barber of Toronto won the men’s pole vault, and Elizabeth Gleadle of Vancouver captured the javelin.

Canada’s previous best at the Pan American Games was a silver medal in 1999 when the event was held in Winnipeg.

“It’s kind of a role reversal now”, George said.

Men’s Basketball: Pan American Games, first round, US vs Venezuela, 9 p.m. (ET) ESPN2. “I didn’t really have anything else to do, so I’d jump on the mats and play on the trampoline”. I try to game plan, I’ve got new things up my sleeve.

Sprinter Andre De Grasse will be looking to add to Canada’s medal haul. Canada’s Emily Batty and Catharine Pendrel pulled away from the pack in what essentially was a two-woman race. Alex Genest claimed the silver. The two added another gold when Canada captured the team event.

Tim Nedow from Brockville, Ont., earned silver in the men’s shot put with a throw of 20.53 metres. George, who’s originally from Kincardine, Ont., eventually installed a full-size pole vault pit in an old airplane hangar on the farm. Canada has to win the tournament to earn an automatic berth, but the Americans have already booked their spot in Rio and so won’t be in Edmonton.

The red-headed Canadian got off to a rough start Tuesday, missing badly at 5.40 – he’d just applied sunscreen, and said his hands were slippery.

And they won. Over the normally dominant Americans, albeit a younger, developing group, not the USA women’s “A” team. “Playing for your country, winning at home, with this crowd – it’s unbelievable”.

Barber captured both the indoor and outdoor NCAA titles this past season, and breaks his own Canadian record on a regular basis.

Split decisions defined Canada’s night in boxing at the Pan American Games, with mixed results.

“I’m having a really phenomenal year for me, I’m hitting the marks that I dreamed of”, Barber said.

Emma Fletcher of Victoria, an emerging soccer player, is part of the youthful Canadian women’s development team headed to a semifinal date Wednesday with Colombia in the Games competition taking place in Hamilton.

As the crowd of several thousand at the new stadium at York University clapped in unison, Gleadle was overcome with emotion.

Nurse scored 12 of her 33 points in the second quarter to help change the game’s momentum.

Although there were fans in attendance for all the competing nations, the three Canadians drew the biggest cheers, with “CA-NA-DA” chants ringing out for each of their ring announcements and again when they had their names announced. You should be shaking in your boots! “It’s that exact same feeling, when you realize how overjoyed you are”.

“We wanted everyone in Canada to know about us, to get on board and love basketball as much as we do”, she said.

“I was the only kid in my class who didn’t hit myself in the back of the head”. “I was hoping that Alex knew when I was going to go”.

In fact, he says even Coach Ernie Whitt and Assistant Coach Larry Walker, two former Major League players admit Sunday’s finale was unlike anything they have ever witnessed.

The Pan-American games has long been a proven ground for future MMA stars.

“Last night was heartbreaking, I wanted to win so badly today to make up for it”, Overholt said.

Less than an hour after singing the national anthem, gold medals still glistening around their necks, Canada’s victorious senior women’s basketball team crossed the street and entered a local bar to a heroes’ welcome.