A number of native athletes—together with 2016 Olympians Dorothy Yeats and Jacqueline Simoneau—attended the second annual Soirée Reconnaissance de l’Alliance et de la Fondation Sport-Études on November 15.
Yeats, a wrestler, narrowly missed the rostrum in her weight class was honoured, as was Simoneau, a scholar at Vanier School who completed seventh within the synchronized swimming ladies’s duet competitors. Determine skater and Vanier alumnus Andrew Meng additionally acquired two scholarships totalling $three,000 on the occasion—a number of the $169,000 scholarships awarded by the inspiration in 2016.
The Sport-Études group supplies educational help to high-performance Quebec student-athletes like Simoneau, who can contact a devoted educational counsellor and modify their course schedule or program necessities to suit their coaching schedule. The inspiration organized 116 scholarships in 2016.
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