{"id":9300,"date":"2025-10-09T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:51:44","slug":"three-queens-county-residents-honoured-for-olympic-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/10\/09\/three-queens-county-residents-honoured-for-olympic-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Queens County residents honoured for Olympic achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liverpool residents Jillian Young, Susan Inglis and Rebecca Delaney are the newest inductees on the Olympic Wall at Queens Place Emera Centre. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

Three Queens county residents who have made their marks on the world stage were honoured at Queens Place Emera Centre on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liverpool athletes Jillian Young and Rebecca Delaney and coach Susan Inglis were added to the Region of Queens Olympic Wall, in front of a full house in the foyer of Queens Place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Young and Delaney each won gold medals<\/a> in snowshoeing at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Italy in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inglis, who is Delaney\u2019s mother, was also in Italy as one of Team Canada\u2019s coaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Scott Christian said the community is proud of the athletes and coaches from Queens County who have represented Canada at the Olympics, Paralympics and Special Olympics. After Thursday\u2019s ceremony, 12 banners now hang on the Olympic Wall at Queens Place.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that this is a great initiative having the Olympic Wall here. I don’t know what we’re going to do because we’re running out of room, but no, I think I think it’s really fantastic that we have a way of honouring folks for their achievements. We’re happy to celebrate any athlete from Queens County who can climb that mountain and manage to get to an Olympic Games. And so that’s what this is all about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Inglis said having her banner sharing space with fellow inductee Sarah Mitton is \u201ca dream come true\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really wasn’t that much of an athlete myself growing up, so I could never have dreamed that I would be on the Olympic wall of anything, let alone, you know, here locally. It’s such a privilege. Special Olympics is an amazing organization, and I am very, I’ use the word again, privilege to be a part of it, and to have guided my athletes to get to where they are today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Inglis has coached the five Special Olympians who are now inductees. And she said it\u2019s important for all athletes to be recognized for their achievements in world competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at the talent that comes out of this small town, you know, people think, oh, you’re from a little small town, you’re not going to get anywhere, but, you know, you look at Sarah, you look at Jenna Martin, all the other people that are on the wall, the special Olympians. And I don’t know that it really hit home to me until I went to Italy and I saw the talent on the world stage and saw how our athletes could measure up to that world talent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Delaney, who has numerous medals at national and international competitions, said it\u2019s exciting to be among her heroes like Sarah Mitton and to be inducted alongside her mom.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love it because we have a good bond together. I would have never expected to be on the wall, but here I am, at Queens Place.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Jill are very good teammates and I\u2019m glad she got to do it with me. It was a good experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Young said she was “happy and excited” to be recognized for her achievements, though she joked that she didn\u2019t like the food in Italy and was eager to get home to her parents after the games were over.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Region of Queens is also selling commemorative prints of all the Olympic Wall inductees<\/a> to raise money for its Recreation for All program.<\/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\/10\/queensolympicwallstoryoct925.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Queens county residents who have made their marks on the world stage were honoured at Queens Place Emera Centre on Thursday. Liverpool athletes Jillian Young and Rebecca Delaney and coach Susan Inglis were added to the Region of Queens Olympic Wall, in front of a full house in the foyer of Queens Place. Young […]<\/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":[2935,3479,1716,39,883,884,1450,49,351,1711,226,1714,1710,2933,1626,1712],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-athletes","tag-coaches","tag-jillian-young","tag-liverpool","tag-olympic-wall","tag-olympics","tag-paralympics","tag-queens-county","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-rebecca-delaney","tag-scott-christian","tag-snowshoeing","tag-special-olympics","tag-special-olympics-world-winter-games","tag-sports","tag-susan-inglis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300","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=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}