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Hamilton Spectator
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Canadian swimmer Aurelie Rivard to skip para world championship to focus on studies
VICTORIA - Canada's Aurelie Rivard has withdrawn from selection for the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships in order to focus on her studies. The 29-year-old native of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., said she remains passionate about the sport but wants to focus on earning her law degree at Laval University. 'I've always put swimming first,' Rivard said Sunday in a statement. 'I took sabbatical sessions and built my life around this sport.' 'But at this point, with just under a year to go in law school and the goal of graduating in April 2026, I didn't want to put off again.' Rivard has won six gold medals at the Paralympics since making her debut in 2012. 'I'm still training and I'm still enjoying the process,' Rivard said. 'LA 2028 is still in the back of my mind. This is my fifth cycle, and I want to approach it slowly and thoughtfully, without burning out. I was excited about the worlds, but this time it didn't fit into my schedule.' Rivard was scheduled to compete at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria on Monday and Tuesday. Singapore will host the Sept. 21-27 world championship. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 8, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Canadian swimmer Aurelie Rivard to skip para world championship to focus on studies
VICTORIA – Canada's Aurelie Rivard has withdrawn from selection for the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships in order to focus on her studies. The 29-year-old native of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., said she remains passionate about the sport but wants to focus on earning her law degree at Laval University. 'I've always put swimming first,' Rivard said Sunday in a statement. 'I took sabbatical sessions and built my life around this sport.' 'But at this point, with just under a year to go in law school and the goal of graduating in April 2026, I didn't want to put off again.' Rivard has won six gold medals at the Paralympics since making her debut in 2012. 'I'm still training and I'm still enjoying the process,' Rivard said. 'LA 2028 is still in the back of my mind. This is my fifth cycle, and I want to approach it slowly and thoughtfully, without burning out. I was excited about the worlds, but this time it didn't fit into my schedule.' Rivard was scheduled to compete at the Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria on Monday and Tuesday. Singapore will host the Sept. 21-27 world championship. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 8, 2025.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Owego students design 150 skateboards for Tioga's First Friday
OWEGO, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Tioga Arts Council's First Friday is tomorrow night, and one exhibit will feature artwork from 150 Owego students, who use skateboards as canvases. The Arts Council received a grant from the Floyd Hooker Foundation, to collaborate with an internationally renowned artist Mark Rivard. Rivard's work is unique, using blank skateboards as his canvas to draw on. He provided 150 skateboards to students at Owego and challenged them to make an illustration that tells a story. The students started sketching their designs on paper, before moving to the boards. Rivard says he and his brand, 'Do Rad Things,' have brought skateboards to over 20 thousand kids over the last 20 years. 'Most kids probably aren't going to skate these boards. They're spending five, six hours creating the artwork on these boards. They're not necessarily gonna go and muck it up by skating it at the park. Regardless of whether they skateboard or not, that's more or less irrelevant. This is just more about expression,' says Rivard. All of the designs are done with Sharpie markers. Rivard received an endorsement deal from Sharpie back in 2011. He says the boards themselves are high-quality, real, skate-decks, and the students could put wheels and bearings on them if they wanted to. One student, 6th grader, Coeburn Locke, says even if you're not a skater, or an artist, you get to create something that'll last the rest of your life. 'I can give it to someone, I can keep it, I can hang it up in my room. There's many things you can do with it. You can snap it in half and turn it into a different piece of art. It's your choice. You can do whatever you want with it. You can add more to it with more Sharpies,' says Locke. The students' boards will be on display at the Tioga Arts Council, located at 179 Front Street in Owego, tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. and for the remainder of the month. Rivard will give a brief talk at the exhibit beginning at 6 p.m. with a post party at Lucky Hare Brewing. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
OFA students use skateboards as a canvas for ‘Ascension' art exhibit
OWEGO, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Tioga Arts Council (TAC) has partnered with an internationally recognized artist to help Owego Free Academy art students tell their story through a unique approach. Thanks to funding from The Floyd Hooker Foundation, TAC has collaborated with Mark Rivard of Do Rad Things and Owego Free Academy (OFA) to present a community wide event featuring artwork by 150 students called Ascension: A Student Skateboard Art Exhibition. The exhibition opens on First Friday, March 7, in downtown Owego. Rivard will bring his program Do Rad Things to OFA this week. From March 3 through March 6, Rivard will present a motivational speech and discuss art as entrepreneurship. He will host design sessions using skateboards as a canvas with one-on-one instruction. According to TAC, Rivard's approach is student-centered. Participants will use the skateboard deck to create a work of art that tells their own story under Rivard's guidance. During the residency, students will also discover the value that their creative vision can have as a profession and as a community asset. Following Rivard's visit, TAC says it plans to match his efforts and spearhead an Artist as Entrepreneur curriculum to help artists of all ages gain the knowledge and tools needed to build a successful creative career, as well as facilitate a related Public Art Project. TAC says that over time, the program aims to be the first step toward developing a culture of art as a practical form of entrepreneurship and as an act of civic engagement in Owego. The exhibition will be open on March 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. with an Artist Talk at 6 at Tioga Arts Council, located at 179 Front Street. It will also be on display at Owego Home, located at 173 Front Street; Experience Tioga, located at 200-204 Front Street; and Lucky Hare Owego, located at 17 Lake Street. Remarkable Women in our community: Victoria Kelly JUST demands enforcement of HALT Law during Tuesday rally BCAC raises over $300k for local arts organizations UE families react to administrator's controversial Instagram post Garage Taco Bar under new ownership Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
