Canadian Women’s Alpine Speed Team take Right To Play support to the slopes
Brydon, Janyk, VanderBeek, and teammates launch Right To Play initiative at 2007 Lake Louise Winterstart World Cup
Lake
Louise (November 29, 2007) – Canadian Women’s Alpine Speed Team members
and Right To Play Athlete Ambassadors Emily Brydon, Britt Janyk, Kelly
VanderBeek, along with their teammates, today announced a Canadian
Women’s Alpine Speed Team initiative in support of Right To Play.
Beginning
this weekend at the Lake Louise Winterstart World Cup Brydon, Janyk,
VanderBeek, and their Canadian Women’s Alpine Speed teammates are
kicking off their Right To Play partnership initiative to raise
awareness and fundraising within the international and national ski
community.
“Right To Play
epitomizes the power, passion and unity of sport. It exceeds the
boundaries of competition into the daily lives of people world wide; it
even overcomes the power of hatred,” Brydon said. “The Right To Play
initiative with the Canadian Women’s Alpine Speed Team is a great
opportunity for me to pay it forward and to help lessen the gap between
sport in our backyard and the international doorstep.”
As
three of Canada’s top female skiers, Brydon, Janyk, and VanderBeek see
their Women’s Alpine Speed Team’s Right To Play initiative as a great
team building tool for their whole team, including skiers, coaches, and
staff this World Cup season and going forward to the Vancouver 2010
Olympics.
The Women’s Alpine Speed
Team is encouraging the international ski community, Canadian ski
community and all Canadians to join them in supporting Right To Play’s
Sport for Development and Peace projects across Africa, Asia, and the
Middle East. To show your support for the Women’s Alpine Speed Team,
visit the team’s link at www.righttoplay.com/goals
Right
To Play’s ‘Make Your Goals Count’ program empowers Canadian athletes to
have an impact on more than just the playing surface. By collecting
pledges in support of their sporting successes, athletes will allow
children on the other side of the world to share in their celebrations
while raising awareness of the power of sport as a force for positive
social and individual change.
"I am
inspired by the Right to Play Initiative with the Women’s Alpine Speed
Team,” Britt Janyk said. We are coming together as a team and giving to
an organization that emulates the qualities we strive for as athletes.
Through our goals in sport we can help children around the world to
play."
About Right To Play
Right To Play runs specially-designed sport and play programs in 23
countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The world leader in
the Sport for Development and Peace movement, Right To Play is
supported by an international team of Olympic, Paralympic and
professional athletes who generously donate their time to give back
through sport. Visit www.righttoplay.com.
Contact:
Simon Ibell
Right To Play
416.203.0190, ext. 205
sibell@righttoplay.com
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