A huge team of 48 Ottawa athletes competed at the St. John’s 2025 Canada Summer Games in Newfoundland from Aug. 9-24. Our coverage of their journeys is all posted here on our Ottawa at the Canada Games central webpage.
Ottawa at the Canada Games Daily Newsletter
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Daily Coverage
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Final Day: Ottawa champs in all 4 team gold medal games, Will Batley carries Ontario flag at closing ceremonies
There was an awkward silence after everyone was instructed to stand for the national anthem before the gold medal game in women’s volleyball at the 2025 Canada Summer Games. At long last, a noisy bass track that was most certainly not O Canada crept out from the speakers. After a little laughter, the music screeched to a stop. READ MORE…
Day 15: Thomas Sénéchal-Becker wins second national title of season, 3-gold winner Will Batley sets Games record
The mischievous climate in Newfoundland had a few more tricks up its sleeve on the second-last day of the 2025 Canada Summer Games. The wind chill dipped to a biting 5°C in the morning with gusts near 40 km/h. It brought its share of cheer and chagrin for Ottawa track and field athletes, who will leave St. John’s with medals of every colour. READ MORE…
Day 14: National Capital wrestlers win team medals, 2 more track podiums, 1 in artistic swimming
Dexter Bates and Makinleigh Courtney’s voices are both hanging on for dear life. The boisterous crowd at Glacier Arena and a crowded mat of wrestlers have been locked in a fierce competition to outscream one another. Drums, bells and many screeches accompanied Ontario’s men’s and women’s wrestling teams en route to gold and silver medals. READ MORE…
Day 13: Deng Yout takes unique road to Team Ontario volleyball, Ottawa aquatics athletes powerful in pool
Ask any of the players in the Canada Summer Games volleyball tournament how they got into the sport and there is likely only one who will tell you it involves an anime cartoon and a low-key beach volleyball tournament at school. Team Ontario men’s volleyball player Deng Yout hesitates to admit how he was first exposed to volleyball. READ MORE…
Day 12: Conner Hopper hammers grand slam in spectacular softball start, lots more Ws and Qs for Ottawa
After delayed flights and opening-day games postponed due to rain, Ontario’s men’s softball team finally got off to the hot start they were looking for at the St. John’s 2025 Canada Summer Games as Durham’s Alex McGillivray hit a first-pitch home run, followed later by a grand slam from West Carleton Electric’s Conner Hopper. READ MORE…
Day 11: Mavs pay homage to club’s milestone 40th in volleyball win, historic women’s baseball, diver Lindsay medals
It’s already been a summer to remember for Jasmine Chrétien and what promises to be the biggest highlight has only just started. Her final stop on an extremely roundabout voyage to begin her university volleyball career with the Calgary Dinos is with the Ontario women’s volleyball team at the St. John’s 2025 Canada Summer Games. READ MORE…
Day 10: 3-thrower, 7-athlete track and field lineup leads Team Ottawa into week 2 of St. John’s 2025 Games
After a mammoth first week where 28 local athletes brought home a total of 53 medals, 20 more are raring to compete in week 2 of St. John’s 2025, and we’re very eager to see what kind of feats this group will have in store for us to follow in our daily Ottawa at the Canada Games coverage. The lion’s share of local athletes will take part in track and field. READ MORE…
Day 8: Josh Adamson perfect in gold medal tennis run, BYC sailors land on podium after tumultuous week
Kanata’s Josh Adamson won his 15th consecutive match in national competition Saturday at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, NL en route to winning a unique triple Canadian crown. Adamson was just days removed from winning Tennis Canada U16 boys’ singles and doubles championships in Toronto before starting play in St. John’s. READ MORE…
Day 7: Nepean lacrosse goalie Kyleigh Payne wins second tournament medal within two weeks
If hockey goaltenders have the reputation of being curious creatures behind barricades of padding and obscured expressions, box lacrosse goalies are altogether otherworldly. When the ball is stuck at the other end and you glance at them, impossibly still between the posts, you might begin to wonder whether you’re looking at some strange and burly inflatable. READ MORE…
Day 6: Local paddlers close canoe-kayak competition with commanding 37-medal performance
Canoe-kayak events came to a close on Thursday at the 2025 Canada Summer Games, and with them, nearly a quarter of Ottawa’s contingent competing in St. John’s, Newfoundland will soon be heading home – 37 medals in tow. The team of 11 local paddlers weren’t about to leave Quidi Vidi Lake without one final splash. READ MORE…
Day 5: Kayaker Ryan Naroditsky wins 4th gold medal of Games as local paddlers take 8 more podiums
Team Ontario’s paddlers once again brought home a bevy of medals in the canoe-kayak events on Wednesday at the 2025 Canada Summer Games, and Kanata’s Ryan Naroditsky helped lead the charge. After two earlier golds, Naroditsky continued his winning streak in the K-1 500 m and the K-2 200 m with Ottawa’s Fred Brais. READ MORE…
Day 4: Rugby’s Grace Dingwall stars in front of her Newfoundland grandma, basketball boys battle back
Rugby stories have the happy tendency to be covert family stories raked into patches of ryegrass. The Canada Games have been something of a homecoming for Ottawa’s Grace Dingwall, whose father originally hails from Newfoundland. He played on the pitch at the bustling Swilers Park venue many times before her. READ MORE…
Day 3: Double-podium day for Rideau paddler Madeleine Beauregard, youngest swimmer wins 2 medals
Early Monday morning, in preparation for their C-2 women’s 500-metre event, junior world champions Isabel Lowry and Madeleine Beauregard were out for a gentle morning pre-paddle when their canoe took an unfortunate tumble into Quidi Vidi Lake. “It was pretty cold,” Beauregard told the Ottawa Sports Pages, still with a shiver in her voice. READ MORE…
Day 2: Swimmer Deniz Capraz scores Ottawa’s first medal, soccer team cools off in ocean after hot win
On a sticky summer night, Reinaldo Abraham and his Ontario teammates desperately needed to cool down after their opening 2-0 victory over Saskatchewan in men’s soccer. It was just a short skip and a jump out from picturesque CBS Soccer Field on the shore of Conception Bay and into the salty seawater. One by one, the players hopped in. READ MORE…
Day 1: Triple world junior canoe champion Isabel Lowry carries Ontario flag to open St. John’s 2025
The 2025 Canada Summer Games officially opened on Saturday night in Newfoundland, and proudly waving the Ontario flag in St. John’s was local athlete Isabel Lowry. Lowry has rapidly become one of the province’s best-known youth athletes, and not just because she was able to keep pace with Summer McIntosh in the water once upon a time. READ MORE…
Pre-Games Profiles
Read our Series of pre-Games stories on participating local athletes by clicking on the links below.
Athletics: Ottawa track and field stars throwing it all on the line in Newfoundland
Just two weeks after their hometown Canadian Track and Field Championships, a trio of Ottawa Lions throwers are ready for another national competition. It will be Jessica Gyamfi’s second multi-sport event of the season, having represented the uOttawa Gee-Gees at the late-July FISU World University Games in Germany. READ MORE…
Lacrosse: Kyleigh Payne heads to St. John’s with provincial & national gold in her bag
Kyleigh Payne will hardly have a moment to savour her most recent gold medal before jumping on a plane in pursuit of another. The 16-year-old Team Ontario box lacrosse goaltender is fresh off winning a provincial ‘B’ championship with her Nepean Knights club team at the Ontario Lacrosse Festival from Aug. 5-7 in Whitby. READ MORE…
Rugby: Fresh off a national 15s title, Jack Priestman seeks rugby sevens gold
Fresh off a dominant performance at the 2025 U19 Canadian Rugby Championships, Ottawa’s Jack Priestman is ready to suit up for Team Ontario again for the 2025 Canada Summer Games. Although Ontario went undefeated in Alberta to win the 15s national title, they’ll have to stay sharp to capture a sevens title in Newfoundland. READ MORE…
Basketball/volleyball: Career hits new heights for 6’8″ forward Godson Okokoh
Ottawa’s Godson Okokoh was always a tall kid and people always said he should play basketball. But he didn’t decide to actually join until age 12, when his younger brother Richard started playing. Now he’s a Canadian basketball sensation and ready to play at the St. John’s 2025 Canada Summer Games with Team Ontario. READ MORE…
Tennis: March Tennis Club player Josh Adamson serving up a season to remember
If Josh Adamson could put a label on the first 15 years of his life, TENNIS certainly would be appropriate. Everywhere he looks, there are reminders of the court sport, whether it’s watching his parents at work, hitting balls with his older brother, collecting trophies or checking his schedule for practices, future tournaments and international travel. READ MORE…
Wrestling: Kingston’s Makinleigh Courtney puts in many miles to train with NCWC
Kingston’s Makinleigh Courtney, 16, tries to make two trips a week to the National Capital Wrestling Club in Ottawa, there and back. Her father Darryl Courtney at the wheel, she’s gotten into the habit of taking a nap, sometimes on the way there, sometimes on the return trip. “Depends on the day,” she laughs. It’s a four-hour round trip, but well worth it. READ MORE…
Soccer: Sharpshooting striker Reinaldo Abraham taking big strides towards pro soccer goal
Ottawa’s Reinaldo Abraham is taking a big trip with Team Ontario to North America’s easternmost city for the Canada Games just a few months after making a big move to join Toronto FC Academy. But these major mileposts are all part of a bigger journey for the Ottawa South United Force product – to become a pro soccer player. READ MORE…
Sailing: Family tradition feeds Britannia Yacht Club sailors’ journeys to Canada Games
Despite competing for different teams at the Canada Games, Ontario’s Brodie Sorensen and Quebec’s Evania Lovshin have a lot in common. They both call Ottawa’s Britannia Yacht Club home, they both share a coach, and for both Sorensen and Lovshin, sailing is a family affair. “Ever since I was super small, I was always in a boat,” explained Lovshin. READ MORE…
Softball: ‘We’re not settling for silver’: Conner Hopper makes Team Ontario goals clear
Conner Hopper is ready to do whatever it takes to bring home gold at the 2025 Canada Summer Games. The last time Hopper was playing against such a high calibre of talent was in 2023, when he represented Team Canada in the U18 Men’s Softball World Cup in Mexico. “Wearing Canada across your chest, there’s a real sense of pride,” says Hopper. READ MORE…
Aquatics: Ottawa’s youngest Canada Games athlete is swimmer Jordyn Richardson, 13
Full credit to Jordyn Richardson for trying swimming, stepping away for an extended period and returning to the pool to make it her primary sport. If Richardson didn’t reconsider swimming about four years ago, she would have missed a number of exciting opportunities, including the St. John’s 2025 Canada Summer Games in Newfoundland. READ MORE…
Canoe-kayak: Former Summer McIntosh rival Isabel Lowry trades swimsuit for paddle
For the longest time, Isabel Lowry was convinced she would be an Olympian – she just thought she’d be a little closer to the water. It wasn’t long ago that the water around her was covered and chlorinated and sheltered from spontaneous sidewind. “I was like up there with Summer McIntosh,” she casually dropped in an interview last week. READ MORE…
Cycling: Cadie Geertsema does it all – firefighting student, park ranger & cyclist
There aren’t enough days in the week for Cadie Geertsema, a firefighting student at Algonquin College in Ottawa who works full-time during the summer and cycles five to six days a week. The former Ottawa Bicycle Club athlete who now rides for The Cyclery women’s racing team will be competing in the 2025 Canada Summer Games. READ MORE…
Coaches: Pat Lester’s passion for coaching takes him to second Canada Summer Games
Like many young Canadian boys, Pat Lester was drawn to hockey to have fun, be competitive and create memories with his brothers and neighbourhood friends. It wasn’t surprising that Canada’s national winter sport quickly became his primary sport. But when winter turned to spring and summer, hockey was put on hold. Now what? READ MORE…
Ottawa Sports Pages will follow huge Ottawa crew headed to 2025 Canada Summer Games
A big team of four dozen Ottawa athletes are getting ready to make their mark at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Nfld., and the Ottawa Sports Pages is gearing up to bring you all the action. Make sure to subscribe to the free Ottawa Sports Pages email newsletter, which will be sent out daily throughout the Aug. 9-24 Games. READ MORE…
Team Ottawa
Meet the 48 athletes from Ottawa competing at the St. John’s 2025 Canada Summer Games:
