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Jessica Gaudreault and the Canadian women’s water polo team came within a goal of forcing extra time in the match that determined if they’d go to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, falling 8-7 to Italy on March 26 at the Olympic Qualification Tournament in the Netherlands.
The 21-year-old member of the Capital Wave Water Polo Club earned special praise from Team Canada captain Krystina Alogbo for her “outstanding” goaltending in the deciding match.
Canada went 2-3 in the preliminary round of the tournament to earn their chance at one of the four available tickets to the Olympics in the quarter-final round.
The Canadian men’s team, featuring Ottawa Titans products John Conway, Alec Taschereau and Dusan Aleksic, plays in their Olympic qualification tournament Apr. 4-10 in Italy.
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