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PROFILES
OF TWO OF VANIER'S TOP STUDENT ATHLETES
ENROLLED IN THE SPORTS-ÉTUDES PROGRAM
Vanier
Business Management (Marketing) Student
Kimberly Hyacinthe is a Rising Track Star
April
10, 2008
Kimberly (right)
accepts her Saputo Award from Lino Saputo Jr. |
Vanier has one
of Canada's top track prospects studying here. Kimberly Hyacinthe
is one of our top students in the Sports-Etudes program and she's
been making quite a splash in international-level track competitions.
Her latest
exploits involved her participation on April 5, 2008 at the 28th
Colonial Invitational, held in Fort de France, Martinique. Competing
in intense heat and sweltering humidity, Kimberly won a gold medal
in both the 100m and 200m finals. As a result of this amazing
performance, she won the trophy for top athlete of the meet, both
male and female.
Kimberly
was the Canadian competitor at the 2007 Pan Am Junior Games in
both the 100 and 200m races, and on October 11, 2007, Kimberly
won a $3000 Saputo scholarship for her athletic excellence. (See
photo at left)
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the May 2007 La Loma Festival International, held in Mexico, she
won a Silver Medal in the 200m race by equaling her personal best
time of 23.88 seconds.
She also won a Gold
Medal in the 200m at the 2007 Canadian Junior Championships.
Previously in 2005,
she broke two Quebec records at the 2005 World Youth Championships,
held at Marrakech, Morocco. First, she ran 11.78 seconds in the
100m, breaking a Quebec record that had stood since 1977 and then
ran 24.13 seconds in the 200m, also breaking the Quebec record
for that distance.
Vanier College is indeed
proud of Kimberly's accomplishments and we wish her the best in
all her upcoming competitions.
Perhaps a medal for
Canada in Track and Field at the 2012 Olympics is within reach!
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The
above picture dates from 2004 |
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Vanier
Social Science Student (Psychology
Major)
Éliana Parvu is a Top Fencing Competitor
April
11, 2008
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Éliana Parvu
is one of Québec's top female fencers in her age group.
She can be seen at right in a photo taken just after she received
a silver medal at a 2004 competition held at the Canadian Sport
Centre in Saskatchewan.
Graduating
from Vanier College this year, she represents a major success
story in the Sports-Études program.
We just recently received
word that Éliana has been awarded a $750 bursary from RDS
(Réseau Des sports) for the continuation of her studies.
The prize was given
as part of the 2008 Sports-Études Foundation Scholarship
Award Program. She will officially accept her award at a golf
tournament at Club de golf La Madeleine on June 19, 2008.
Congratulations, Élianu.
See photos of her in action below.
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