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Chantal Pollard’s Team Canada Dodgeball Journey

By Victoria Klassen Pollard represented Team
Canada at the North American
hantal Pollard made Team and Caribbean Dodgeball
CCanada Women’s Cloth Championships in Houston, Texas
Dodgeball Squad in the September, in December. Pollard was one of
which is made up of twenty-two the twelve players who competed
rostered players. Cloth dodgeball and helped to secure a second-
refers to a different type of ball than place finish. Next up, the team is
the foam ball, and there are slight competing at the Dodgeball World
variations in the styles of play. Championships, held in Graz,
Austria, in August 2024.
She began playing dodgeball
recreationally in 2012 with her “A huge component of this game
partner, and together they joined a is honesty. While there are refs who
women’s competitive team in 2018. watch the game, the balls go so fast
In 2022, Pollard played at Nationals. that sometimes a hit cannot be seen
and only felt by the player. It’s up
“Traveling to Edmonton for to that player to call themselves out.
Nationals in 2022 was a pretty
That integrity is so important to this
big moment for me. It gave me sport,” said Pollard.
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could hold my own at that level of Since Team Canada players training on their own. Pollard plays experienced coaches is making me
competition. It pushed me to see are spread across the country, dodgeball twice a week with two an all-around better player and is
how far I could go,” shared Pollard. the athletes must keep up their different ball types and she practices giving me tools and skills that I can
on her own four times a week. She take back to my local teams, which
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Since Dodgeball Canada is a not-
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“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to across the country. I now have businesses are interested in sponsoring
understand. We listen to reply.” Stephen K Covey friends in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Chantal or her team, please reach
Quebec, and of course Ontario. out to her for more information:
One great thing about dodgeball is chantal.pollard@gmail.com.
that players are always willing to
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