Road to London
Accomplishments
2012 Olympic Bronze Medalist
2012 Canadian Olympic Team Member
2011 Pan American Games Champion
2010 Commonwealth Games Champion
2008 Olympic Games Champion
2007 Pan American Games Champion
2005 World University Games Champion
4x World Medalist
11x Canadian Champion
Newsflash! September 25th, 2012
Sept. 25th, 2012
Well a lot has happened since the last time I posted. We went to the Closing Ceremonies on August 12th, and had a gret time. We were sporting our Canadian jean jackets and a feeling of the end of a chapter. There were feelings of joy and relief and a bit of sadness that it was all over.
My husband and I took the train to Paris for a short vacation and had a wonderful. When we arrived home, I was soon off again for some sponsor appearances and events in Vancouver and Toronto for PwC. Then off to a friend's wedding in Saskatoon and another trip to Vancouver for Kidsport fundraising and Superior Tofu sponsor event. It has been a very busy month!
I just returned from Toronto for the Canadian Olympic Committee's Olympic Heroes Tour. We had breakfast with Kidsport and Boys and Girls Club youth, I went to do a sport demo and talk at the Town Centre Montessori Private School, and then we visited some of the kids at the Sick Kids Hospital. The next day I did an interview with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's Q Radio show. Afterwards we went to the Parade around downtown Toronto. It was amazing to see so many people out to cheer us on and show their support. It was so cool! That evening we went to the COC Hall of Fame Gala, which Fundraised over a 3 million dollars for the Canadian Olympic Foundation that funds athletes. It was a great night of Inductions and performances by Cirque de Soleil, Hedley, and many more.
The following day I went with Tonya to help with the Grand Opening of a Tapout gym in Burlington. It was a lot of fun. We got to meet some MMA fighters and Dan "punkass" Caldwell, co-founder of Tapout. Later that evening we went to watch UFC 152 at the ACC All in all, it was a great weekend.
Now I'm looking forward to this week. The Women's Wrestling World Championships are happening in Edmonton this week. I won't be competing, but I will be taking part in many aspects of the event. Tonya and I will be putting on a 2 session clinic at the U of A and doing some talks to youth at the Venue on Thursday and Friday. We will be at the competition to cheer on our teammates and sign autographs and take pictures. Hope to see a lot of fans there!
For more information check out this site: http://wrestling.ca/news/article.php?id=2185
Carol was born in the small town of Hazelton, BC. Her parents were hard-working individuals who came to Canada as refugees from Vietnam. Carol grew up with two brothers and two sisters who motivated and supported her to play every sport she could.
At the urging of family and friends, she joined her high school wrestling team at age 15 and has enjoyed and excelled at the sport ever since.
She was recruited by Simon Fraser University in 1998 where she later received a BA in Psychology. She made the Junior World team in 1999 and in 2000 she made both the Junior and Senior World Teams. Since then, Carol has relinquished her position on the senior national team only once in her career. Unfortunately, it was the year leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games. Carol's Olympic Dream hit a snag when teammate, mentor, and role model, Lyndsay Belisle, pursued her Olympic Dream in 2004. Carol lost to her at the Canadian Olympic trials, but supported her as a training partner all the way to Athens.
This snag fuelled the fire to become an Olympian. Determined to make the 2008 Olympic Team, Carol moved from Vancouver to Calgary in 2006. She left her friends and family, and put her academic career on hold to enable her to focus solely on her training and pursue her Olympic Dreams to the fullest.
Now that she has achieved her goal of competing for Canada at the Olympic Games in Beijing and met success there with a gold medal win, Carol has been working on new goals. She has recently completed her Masters degree in Counselling Psychology. She has qualified to represent Canada at the Olympic Games in London this summer and is training for another successful Games.
