{"id":8400,"date":"2025-03-03T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8400"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:28:26","slug":"queens-lunenburg-athletes-to-represent-canada-at-special-olympics-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/03\/03\/queens-lunenburg-athletes-to-represent-canada-at-special-olympics-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens, Lunenburg athletes to represent Canada at Special Olympics in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Susan Inglis, snowshoeing coach with Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens, will be heading to Italy this week with these athletes for the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin: Rebecca Delaney, Jillian Young, Chloe Stoddart and Nick Skoreyko. (Rick Conrad photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Queens County athletes are once again getting ready to represent Canada on the world stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Snowshoers Rebecca Delaney and Jillian Young of Liverpool will be among 91 athletes from across the country going to the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin, Italy, from March 8 to 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bridgewater\u2019s Nick Skoreyko will also be competing for a snowshoeing medal. And Chloe Stoddart from Bridgewater will represent Canada in cross-country skiing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Delaney\u2019s mother Susan Inglis, the snowshoeing coach for Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens, will be one of the 24 Team Canada coaches going to Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will be the first world games for all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 50 people showed up at an event at Memories Cafe and Eatery in Liverpool on Saturday to wish them well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inglis says going to Italy is a significant accomplishment for the athletes and for the coaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing opportunity to get to represent their country,” she said. “And to get to go to Italy, for some of them, like Jillian, … this is her first time going out of the country. And they’re going to get to meet people from all other countries and perform on the world stage and see how they stack up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Inglis says she is honoured to have been chosen as one of the coaches for Team Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is humbling for sure. As it gets closer, it really hits home that I\u2019m representing my whole county in going to Special Olympics World Games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebecca Delaney is a multiple medal winner at Special Olympics Canada Games. She\u2019ll be running in the 100 and 200-metre snowshoe event as well as the 4 x 100 relay.<\/span><\/p>\n

She says she\u2019s looking forward to doing her best in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m nervous and excited and I\u2019m ready to go. I\u2019ve been training and going to the gym a lot and it\u2019s been non-stop. I think I\u2019ll do good, but if I don\u2019t win, I will do my best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jillian Young has also won medals at national games. When she went to last year\u2019s winter games in Calgary, it was her first time on a plane.<\/span><\/p>\n

She says she\u2019s pumped to be airborne again and to compete in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud of getting this far. And we\u2019re going to make Canada rock. Go Canada go!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Young says she hopes to win a gold medal and to “kick some butt!\u201d<\/p>\n

Betty Ann Daury of Liverpool has coached snowshoe and track with Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens for 43 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was a coach with Team Canada in Nagano, Japan, in 2005. She\u2019ll be cheering on the team from home this time. She says they’re in good hands with Inglis as coach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daury said going to a world games is a fitting reward for the athletes, who have committed to regular practices, workouts and hard work to get there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve accepted the fact that if you want to go, if you don\u2019t work hard, then you don\u2019t go. … If you can\u2019t do it here, then you can\u2019t do it there. And you know, we\u2019re so proud of these guys.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJillian is an example of how great you can become. She\u2019s come a long way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Hatt was among the people at the event at Memories on Saturday to show their support. He grew up with Rebecca and her sister Kate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am really excited to see how she does in Italy. I know she\u2019s gonna win and if she doesn\u2019t win, she’s going to be brave in the attempt. I just think it\u2019s really important to show support for people you love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Inglis says the team will be leaving Monday for Toronto for two days to meet with some dignitaries in an official sendoff, including a celebratory Italian dinner. Then they fly to Italy to get ready for the week of competition in Sestriere.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a pretty big deal. From little old Liverpool, we\u2019ve got Sarah Mitton who\u2019s a pretty amazing Olympic athlete and then we\u2019ve got our Special Olympians who are going to representing Queens County on the world stage. And I hope that everybody tunes in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Snowshoeing gets underway at the games on March 11. For more information, you can follow the Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/specolympsendoffmar325.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queens County athletes are once again getting ready to represent Canada on the world stage. Snowshoers Rebecca Delaney and Jillian Young of Liverpool will be among 91 athletes from across the country going to the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin, Italy, from March 8 to 15. Bridgewater\u2019s Nick Skoreyko will also be competing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2935,877,379,2931,2767,1716,39,2471,2932,241,884,49,1711,1714,1710,1713,2933,1626,1712,2934],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-athletes","tag-betty-ann-daury","tag-bridgewater","tag-chloe-stoddart","tag-italy","tag-jillian-young","tag-liverpool","tag-memories-cafe-and-eatery","tag-nick-skoreyko","tag-nova-scotia","tag-olympics","tag-queens-county","tag-rebecca-delaney","tag-snowshoeing","tag-special-olympics","tag-special-olympics-lunenburg-queens","tag-special-olympics-world-winter-games","tag-sports","tag-susan-inglis","tag-turin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8404,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}