Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I rise in the House to speak about some amazing accomplishments for some constituents from the Nahendeh region this summer.
Mr. Speaker, in December 2017, Jessie Loutit received a call from Rowing Canada's head coach, officially inviting her to join the national team starting in January 2018. With this official invitation to join the team, she is now a carded athlete with Sport Canada with an ultimate goal of representing Canada at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
On August 8, Jessie and her partner, Larissa Werbicki, took another step towards this ultimate goal by winning Canada's first rowing medal at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Peru. Jessie and her partner remained in second place throughout the race, finishing just behind the Chilean duo with a time of 7:30:06. This is Larissa's and Jessie's first Pan Am Games, and Jessie's first international medal.
Mr. Speaker, Brenda Moreau, single mother to four, has been a dart player since 1993, with many achievements under her belt representing the NWT in darts. In 2008 she received a distinguished award with the National Dart Federation for Athlete of the Year. She has been to every province and travelled extensively to attain a ranking for her territory to be proud of. This past March, she was in the play downs in Hay River, coming out first for the NWT. In June, she travelled to Saskatoon and ranked fifth in the "Land of the Living Skies" ladies' single event; and July 17th at the National Canadian Women's Championships. On August 3, 2019, she took home a huge victory, placing first at the Calgary Open.
Currently, Brenda Moreau is ranked third in Canada, and plans to remain in the top 16 for the 2019-2020 dart season running up to April 30, 2020. With the plans to attend six more ranked tournaments her main goal was to get a coveted win and receive an invitation to the World Masters to represent Fort Simpson, the Northwest Territories, and Canada.
Mr. Speaker, yesterday three Nahendeh youth were part of the Northern Youth Abroad graduation ceremony with other participants. They got to share some of their things that they accomplished this summer. I'd like to congratulate Jolan Kotchea from Fort Liard, Emily Hardistay-Marcallais from Fort Simpson, and Holly Norwegian from Jean Marie River and Fort Simpson. At this point in time, Mr. Speaker, I would like unanimous consent to finish my statement.
---Unanimous consent granted