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GWA athlete Shannon Woeller is playing a big role in helping the Canadian Women’s Soccer Team achieve it’s goal of reaching the London Olympics.  Check out this article about her.

Shannon - 3rd player from the left

At the Pan Am games this past week Canada had two great victories for gold medals.  We beat the USA in men’s baseball on Tuesday and Brazil in women’s soccer on Thursday.  Both teams featured GWA athletes: Mark Hardy, a left hand pitcher for the baseball team, and Shannon Woeller, a defender for the soccer team.

Check out the article on the baseball game here

Check out the article on the soccer game here

Jon Poli has taken a job as the head strength and conditioning coach for the Vancouver Whitecaps residency program.  He spent 5 great years working for us and developing his craft.  This is a great opportunity for him.  Although we will be really sad to see him go, we wish him all the best.

Check out the article on the Factory Hockey Training –GWA gets a mention!!

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Congrats to Vancouver Canuck Jeff Tambellini who scored the shootout winner on Wednesday vs the Anaheim Ducks. Below are two video’s-the shootout and a taste of what he does with us in the off season to achieve his success.

Jon Bula and Jon Poli have recently become certified to administer Functional Movement Screening (FMS) and corrective exercises. We are really excited about adding this to our list of services as it will allow us to make your individual training sessions more specific and focused towards your needs than ever before.

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Today we made The Province online version–check out the article here.

Congratulations to Jackie Lang who made Team BC on the weekend and will be attending the Canada Winter Games in Halifax this February! Jackie has been training hard with us for 3 years in her quest for a US College Hockey Scholarship and never cuts corners in her preprations. Well deserved.

Congratulations to Tyler Morley who was named captain of the Surrey Eagles of the BCHL last week.  The third year forward has commited to Merrimack (NCAA) for the 2012/13 season.  Tyler has been training with us for the past two off seasons.

The website recently sent a couple of ladies to train at GWA with Shawn–check out their review here.