{"id":192842,"date":"2023-11-07T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=192842"},"modified":"2023-11-07T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:26:09","slug":"retired-coach-proud-of-pan-am-games-achievements-by-former-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/retired-coach-proud-of-pan-am-games-achievements-by-former-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired coach proud of Pan-Am Games achievements by former athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Port Hope native and former Cobourg District Collegiate Institute (CDCI) West high school athlete Dominika Jamnicky placed fifth in the women\u2019s triathlon Thursday at the Pan-Am Games in Santiago, Chile and earned the bronze medal with Canada\u2019s mixed relay team on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cobourg\u2019s Kate Current placed seventh in the women\u2019s 1,500 metre run on Friday. She was an athlete at Cobourg Collegiate Institute, which is the amalgamated school of the former CDCI West and CDCI East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"I just could explode, I'm so proud of both of them,\" <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">retired high school track and cross-country coach Dawn Watson said of her former athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watson worked with Jamnicky, even though she was at CDCI East across town, and credits CDCI West coaches John Cordukes and Chris Crooks for their coaching and work with the young athlete at the time as well. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At CCI, Watson said Brad Johnson also played a key role in coaching Current.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson said all the coaches worked hard to prepare the athletes in their pursuit of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's just amazing to have been part of that little blip in their athletic career to help them get started,\" she remarked.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santiago2023.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pan-Am Games<\/a>, featuring nations of the Americas, are held every four years in the year prior to the Summer Olympics. The 2024 Olympic Games will be held in Paris next summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the audio report below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Hope native and former Cobourg District Collegiate Institute (CDCI) West high school athlete Dominika Jamnicky placed fifth in the women\u2019s triathlon Thursday at the Pan-Am Games in Santiago, Chile and earned the bronze medal with Canada\u2019s mixed relay team on Saturday.\u00a0 Cobourg\u2019s Kate Current placed seventh in the women\u2019s 1,500 metre run on Friday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":192860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,204],"tags":[32482,32483,25834,30962,26123,32484],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193114,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192842\/revisions\/193114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192842"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=192842"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=192842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}