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Zach Zwanenburg Brock’s

Qualifies for 2017 World

Championships in Rio Blog

By Jordan Todd

ornwall’s own Zachary Zwanenburg
Crecently won the Canadian National Publishers Note: Brock McBride is a local Professional Hockey Player
team trials in C1, OC1 and came in fourth Playing Hockey in Austria. In an exclusive to Sports Energy Brock will
in kayaking, meaning he’ll be representing be writing about his experiences in Austria each issue during the Hockey
the country in all three categories at the Season. Sports Energy would like to welcome Brock, his wife Melissa, and
upcoming 2017 World Championships in daughter Maely to the pages of Sports Energy.
Rio.
“It’s better results than I expected,” says Planes, Stains, and Automobiles
Zwanenburg, “Two national championship
titles and then on the team for all three without taking off a nice strip of
categories.” By Brock McBride
The chance to compete in Rio is something paint....Welcome to Europe buddy.
he says he’s very much looking forward to. t is August again and time for
“Always the most exciting part about all The team started training camp

the different world championships is you get Submitted Photo Ianother hockey season. That immediately with fitness testing in
to go and see new parts of the world every some races coming up in New York in the doesn’t sound right to most people the form of a V02 max test. For this
time,” he says. fall before he heads off to school. He’ll be as summer is only half over but in test you are hooked to an oxygen
Despite two national championships at the leaving to attend the Toronto Film School’s Europe that is the way it works. No
age of 20, Zwanenburg tries to use the world program in game design and animation, on mask, a heart rate monitor, EKG
championships as a baseline for success. October 1. matter how prepared I am we are cables, and a guy pricks your ear
“I try to use those events to gauge my Zwanenburg loves everything about always running around last minute for a blood sample each minute.
competitiveness,” he explains. “And last kayaking. But specifi cally, the atmosphere trying to get things done before we You feel like a lab rat. After they
year’s went really, really well for me; I got around the sport is what he really enjoys. leave for Austria. This year we were
a bronze medal. Now I’ve just got to keep “The camaraderie between everyone is have collected some data, which

training and step up my game, so next year I just so amazing, even at world championship flying out of Montreal and I could I’m not sure anyone ever looks at,
can do even better.” events. Everyone’s sitting in the water, have sworn every other Canadian you can go on your way. On the ice
The summer is a bit of a slow time in the everyone’s supporting each other. It’s what that day was at the airport. It was
area for kayaking competitions, so the team drew me into the sport, and it’s what keeps extremely busy but as we have a each day our team starts to get use
trials were a big deal. Zwanenburg does have me coming back.” to each other. There are many new
16-month-old daughter, Maely, the faces this year with 11 Austrians,
airport staff allowed us in a family 7 Canadians, 2 Slovenians, 1
Voted Cornwall’s Favourite check-in line. Eight bags, my wife American, and 1 Finn. As I stepped
Paint, Blind & Shutters Melissa, daughter Maely, and I back onto the bench for the first

made it to the plane. The travelling exhibition game against the Graz

Presents “Famous Sports Quotes” circus headed off. 99ers it feels like I never left. We

After two flights and a one hour won the game 5-4 in Overtime.
“ What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit car ride we arrived in Villach,
Austria where we will spend the
Dean Smith next eight months of the hockey
it, learn from it, forget it.”
season. I wish I could tell you
travelling with a young child is easy
but I would be lying. The plane
staff were very accommodating
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