About Stephanie
I have many fond memories of the friends my parents made through sport and the satisfaction that can be earned when hard work pays off. I was heavily influenced by the dedication they had to training and understood the amount of work involved to be successful in sport. I’ve competed in many sports but my favourites before archery were soccer, volleyball, bowling, and track. The high performance athletics club I was part of helped to develop not only my love of sport, but also laid the foundations for good mental discipline and visualization techniques.
After taking some beginner classes at the Ontario Centre for Classical Sport in 2016, it was clear that archery and I would become inseparable; a week hasn’t gone by that I haven’t been training or competing. The last few years have been intense and sometimes stressful, but I’m looking to the future while building on past experiences. I can’t wait to meet new friends, learn new lessons, and continue to take the steps to make my dream of becoming an Olympic Champion a reality.
I can’t thank my supporters enough for everything they have done to help with this journey. If you’d like to help positively impact the lives of Canadian athletes in the pursuit of their dreams, please consider donating to Archery Canada or the Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CAN Fund).
Latest Posts
Steady. Strong. True.
Archery, sport, and even life isn’t always, and is only rarely as glamorous as we may portray it online. Sharing the excitement of your highs is fantastic, but it sometimes hides the truth, the journey of what it took to get there.
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2019 Pan-American Games
Wow, what an experience; I have just returned home from the Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru. The weather was calm & cool but the competition was on fire. This was my first multi-sport games and third international competition. I’m so proud of what the team accomplished here and how we were all there for each other through the highs and the lows. The practice…
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End of 2018-19 Indoor Season
Well, I seem to have done it again. Several more months have flown by without a post from me. I did partially start this blog as a journal for myself, but now that I’m using an actual journal, I sometimes find that it feels a little redundant to write it all out again. But it’s not, it’s helpful to write detailed notes immediately after…
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