Boccia Canada News
Boccia Team Announced for BISFed World Open in Kansas City, USA
Ottawa, ON (Sept 18, 2017) – Boccia Canada is excited to announce the athletes going to the 2017 BISFed World Open in Kansas City, USA from Sept 22-28. A month after the Americas Regional Championship in Cali, Colombia, the team is ready to face a broader range of competitors at their first World Open of…
Boccia Canada Celebrates the ParticipACTION 150 Play List
Residents of Ottawa take part in national physical activity challenge to honour Canada’s 150th Ottawa, ON (Sept 8, 2017) – Today, Boccia Canada hosted Boccia Day to celebrate the ParticipACTION 150 Play List – the ultimate list of physical activities that define us as Canadian. ParticipACTION created the ParticipACTION 150 Play List in honour of…
Final Day for Team Canada in Colombia
Cali, Colombia (August 20, 2017) – A challenging day for team Canada as the best in the region faced off in the quarter finals. The silver lining came when BC1 Hanif Mawji of Burnaby, British Columbia advanced to the semi-finals, the only Canadian to do so, and finished fourth. After losing in the semi-finals to…
Eight Canadians Advance to the Quarterfinals
Cali, Colombia (August 19, 2017) – Eight Canadians advanced to the quarter finals at the Americas Boccia Championships. Hanif Mawji (Burnaby, BC) and Joseé Lamothe (Trois-Rivières) both head to the quarterfinals in the BC1 classification. Lamothe took the court by storm this weekend and finished at the top of her pool. She lost only one…
Canada Steals the Show in Colombia
Cali, Colombia (August 18, 2017) – Playing late into the night, Canada shone on the first day of individual play at the Americas Boccia Championships with an incredible thirteen wins and just two losses. The day started with back to back wins from Adam Dukovich (London, ON) and Marco Dispaltro (St. Jerome, QC) and the…