15-year-old Olena Verbinska training to secure her spot on the national team to compete in Paris games
The 15-year-old has partaken in it since the age of five, training and practicing in clubs consistently.
Verbinska was part of the 12-person team that helped ensure Canada would compete at the Olympics starting July 26. With a fourth-place finish in the team technical event, a sixth-place finish in the team technical and a seventh in the team free swim, Canada was able to take the last qualifying spot for Paris.“Our team this year has been through a lot of ups and downs,” she said. “Fortunately, we were able to stay together.
“There’s so many incredible people in the community is amazing, especially in Aurora and Newmarket,” she said. “That’s really where I started to find my passion. I started to really enjoy what I was doing because of all of my coaches, just everyone around me, plus my love of the sport. That really kept me going.”
She made the senior national team in 2022 when she was just 13 and helped the squad win silver and bronze medals at the 2023 World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup Super Final.
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