PRC_FallProgramGuide2021_FA

BRIAN MALFESI Kayaker Brian Malfesi is the first sprint paddling athlete from B.C. to qualify for the Olympics in the past 33 years, after he qualified in the doubles kayak 1000m event. Olympics. He attended Whonnock elementary, and was just a walk to the club’s headquarters at Whonnock Lake. He started paddling 16 years ago, at the age of 11. Malfesi came from a soccer family – his father Mike played for the SFU Clan – but he fell in love with kayak racing. Malfesi is also the first member of the Ridge Canoe and Kayak Club to make it to the

TOKYO OLYMPICS UPDATES

TOKYO HIGHLIGHTS Tokyo 2020 Canoe/Kayak - Sprint

K-2 1000m - Men

Finished 14

LARISSA FRANKLIN Larissa Franklin’s first action with the national teamwas at the WBSC Junior Women’s World Championship in 2011 where the team finished fifth. She joined the senior team in 2013, competing in the World Cup of Softball and the WBSC Americas Qualifier where Canada won a silver medal. Since then, she has been a mainstay in the outfield for Canada, competing in multiple international events including the 2014, 2016 and 2018 WBSCWomen’s Softball World Championships, helping to bring home bronze at the latter two events.

TOKYO HIGHLIGHTS Tokyo 2020 Softball

Women

Finished with Bronze

MONIKA EGGENS Monika Eggens represented Canada for the first time at the 2007 FINAWorld Junior Championships. Eggens made her senior debut in 2009 when she competed alongside her sister at the FINAWater Polo World League Super Final, helping Canada to a first ever silver medal. It was also that summer that she competed at the Summer Universiade, the first in which women’s water polo was included. Eggens went on to help Canada win silver at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Pan Am Games, the latter securing the team’s ticket to Tokyo 2020.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE ATHLETES AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS!

CATCH UP WITH OUR MAPLE RIDGE ATHLETES.

TOKYO HIGHLIGHTS Tokyo 2020 Water Polo Women

Finished 7

30

VISIT MAPLERIDGE.CA/PARKSANDREC TO EXPLORE OUR SERVICE OFFERINGS.