Williams Earns Silver With Team USA In Pan American Games

Canada led 54-37 at the half. Reimer scored twice in a row to make it 30-27 at 4:15, but the lead twice changed hands before two made free throws from Reimer with just 11.1 seconds remaining in the first half tied the game at 36-36.

To do so, the team needs to get players forward in numbers faster, said Fleming. Canadian team captain and Claremont grad Fred Winters is 2-0 in men’s volleyball heading into today’s final pool match against the USA, while fellow-Victorian Shanice Marcelle, a graduate of Spectrum, is 1-2 with the Canadian women’s team. Finishing fifth at the 2014 world championship in Turkey was the next one for head coach Lisa Thomaidis’s team. “On the biggest stage she rises to the occasion”. She had that in the second quarter alone when Canada rallied from an 11-point deficit to take a two-point lead on a 3-pointer by Nurse with 46 seconds left in the second quarter. Natalie Achonwa helped the cause with 13 points of her own. Nirra Fields, 21, the other member of Canada’s young, dynamic backcourt duo chipped in nine points. The Canadian exploded for 33 points, igniting the sell-out crowd that was raucously cheering for the home side.

“It’s a dream come true for these women, for our team”, Thomaidis said.

In Canadian midfielder Jessie Fleming’s eyes, if you don’t take a risk you won’t get the reward, and that’s what the 17-year-old and her teammates did Sunday night in Hamilton. “To finally get the opportunity to be the home team and come out and win is tremendous”.

Leading the USA karate team’s fight for gold, Tom Scott returns to the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games after capturing silver in 2011. Canada is having some outstanding success, so it’s kind of a nice problem to have (not being able to broadcast all Canada’s medal successes). “This is just the beginning”.

Hodges’ gold brought to 17 medals, including 13 golds, won in events across several sports featuring Island athletes over 10 days of competition. I can’t even describe the feeling.

TORONTO, ON – JULY 20: Kia Nurse #5 of Canada celebrates a point against the US during the Women’s Baskeball … Nurse comes from a family of star athletes.

All Games will be played at the Ryerson Athletic Center.

Canada had 58 gold, 53 silver and 44 bronze heading into Tuesday’s evening events.

“I was thinking ‘Oh no, I’d better get it together, ‘” Gleadle said.

Did Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Puerto Rico and the rest field their best squads at the Pan Am Games? 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.

While Mannella agrees with his coach to some degree about the team’s lack of luck, he understands that just creating chances isn’t good enough if the team wants to accomplish its ultimate goal of qualifying for the Olympic Games in October.

Here’s a look at some of the Pan Am Games-related apps out there, and advice on which are worth the download. When asked if his network was interested in the Games, TSN spokesman Greg McIsaac said, “I can confirm that we did have discussions on the Games, but we knew our focus this summer was going to be on the Federation Internationale de Football Association Women’s World Cup Canada 2015”.

The Americans are represented by a firefighter, a nurse, two high-school students and a wide mix of players, most of whom grew up playing baseball. And Canada’s women’s basketball team clearly is on the rise, with the sport experiencing a boom in this country.