The University of Victoria's annual Vikes Championship Breakfast has raised nearly $9 million for student-athlete scholarships since its inception in 2008. This year's breakfast features keynote speakers including Olympic silver medalist Carissa Norsten and head coach Brittany Waters, highlighting the importance of funding for U Sports athletes.
School sports teams, so integral to campus life in the U.S., are not a tradition in most of the world. The exception is Canada, yet U Sports is a long way from the NCAA in terms of profile and the generation of big money.
“All these things are important to student athletes,” added Norsten, a kinesiology major, who also works part-time at the front desk at CARSA. “Having those Vikes connections in Paris with Krissy and Shalaya was so cool,” said Norsten, who also won silver with Canada in the 2023 Santiago Pan Am Games.
Rugby has played a big part in UVic sports with former Vikes great and two-time World Cup player Nathan Hirayama, the Canadian flag-bearer in the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the keynote speaker for the 2021 Vikes Championship Breakfast.
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