PATIENT SPOTLIGHT
Hear What Our Patients Have To Say!
My name is Erica Gavel and I am a member of the Wheelchair Basketball Senior Women’s National Team. Over the last 4 years, I have had the privilege of representing Team Canada at the 2015 U25 World Championships, 2015
ParapanAm Games, and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Summer Games. I have been playing wheelchair basketball for five years, but have been training with Craven SPORT services for the last seven. With Craven SPORT services, I can confidently say Bruce and Karen have been some of the most influential people in my life. When Bruce and I first started working together, I had just suffered six injuries in two years, had a 66% school average, and was not mentally healthy. We had a very successful first year training for the Huskies, then I wrecked my knee. Following this injury, my world came crashing down on me and everything was falling apart. After a month of staying here, Bruce called me into his office and drew a “T” on a white piece of paper. He said I could listen to him and go to the Paralympics, or I could listen to him and get my life back in order. Since then, we have accomplished things I never thought were possible. We don’t set a lot of outcome goals, but really focus on the process goals. This mentally has transferred into every aspect of my life. Currently, I am a master’s student at the University of Toronto, training for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Summer Games, and involved with the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) Athlete Council, CPC High Performance and Games Committee, and CPC Sport Science and Classification Committee. Because of Craven SPORT services, I am “living the dream”. - Erica G.
JARED STEVENS “Although I played a variety of sports growing up, I foundmyself to be particularly passionate about fastball. I started playing inmy home town of Harris at 5 years old, and have played competitively for 17 of the last 18 years. As a pitcher, the thing I really enjoy about fastball is the individual pressure to perform on each and every pitch, combined with the reliance and trust you have on all your team mates to perform their roles. For a sport that can appear to be very individual at times, a truly great team relies heavily on each other, and I enjoy the pressure of being depended on.” BLASTFROM THEPAST
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