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Bill Swinden and Patrick Maloney won a Bronze medal for Doubles, Mens, 55+ Tennis recently at the Summer Games 2016. Photos Submitted

Former Cornwall Resident Aaron Prevost Shares

His Love for Sports

By Jordan Todd the camaraderie. And he’s been blind
since birth.
aron Prevost loves to play
Asports. Born and raised in Prevost first got into sports while
attending W. Ross Macdonald School
Cornwall, and now living in Calgary,
he’s played a variety of sports all his in Brantford, a school for blind
students. He went there for over 10
life. He loves the competition and
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Name: Mackinnley MacKillican
Age: 12
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Grade: 8
years. then, so I didn’t see much court time,”
School: Tagwi Secondary School
Among all the sports she participates in, “One of the reasons I stayed was he says. “But just the atmosphere
was so cool. It was just an awesome
Mackinnley MacKillican enjoys playing because we got to try a bunch of experience.”
different sports and stuff through the
soccer and hockey most. Recently,
school, things every other sighted Unfortunately, he just missed
MacKillican has been active during the
person would assume a blind person the cut for this year’s Paralympics,
start of the 2016-17 hockey season with the can’t do,” says Prevost.
NGS Bantam B House Braves. She was but he’s hopeful he’ll get to play
internationally in the future.
also participating during the U14 Glengarry He still plays hockey. They use a
Hearts tryouts at the end of September. Among MacKillican’s favourite metallic puck so the players can hear “I’m one of the top throwers in the
it. He still skis. Someone trails him country, just my defence doesn’t let
highlights is scoring a pair of hat tricks during the 2014-15 hockey
and tells him where and when to turn me block the ball sometimes, which
season, her first year in hockey, including one in a playoff game. “I

and stop. He just started playing is kind of a big part of the game,”
like sports because they teach me how to be athletic and not be on my
beep baseball. The ball beeps and the Prevost says with a laugh. “But I’m

electronics all day,” she says. “I enjoy learning how to play a specific bases buzz. getting better at that so I’m hoping
position.” I get to go the Pan Am Games in a
Goalball is one of Prevost’s
Delivery Available favourites. It’s a sport designed couple years.”
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SOUP, SALAD AND FRUIT BAR of three alternate trying to throw a of his life.
ball, with bells embedded, into each “I love to play, I love going
other’s goal. In 2009, he played for
to tournaments, that is like my
Canada at the world youth tournament
favourite thing,” he says. “I like
in Colorado.
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