WOLFVILLE, N.S. — It didn’t seem real for Maggie Graves and Sophie Duncan as the countdown to the largest multi-sport competition for young Canadian ...
11 years ago and completed their first Kids of Steel triathlons about a decade ago.
“I never thought I was going to be fast enough to make the team,” Duncan said, but “in the last like year I realized I might have a shot.” Shannon Read, the coach and athlete development lead for Triathlon Nova Scotia, has been working with Graves and Duncan for nine years. She recalls them participating in little triathlons at Reservoir Park in Wolfville.
Read said having friends involved in the sport provides camaraderie and support. And she noted Duncan and Graves have other swimming friends who have participated in triathlon events in the past.
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