TORONTO (U SPORTS) – U SPORTS announced Tuesday 393 Canadians will be heading to the 2017 Summer Universiade, Aug. 19-30 in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei. Of those 393 delegates, 20 will come from the University of Calgary with another three competing with Team Australia. 

A number of Dinos highlight the list of student-athletes to compete at the Games including former Dinos Female Athlete of the Year Jenna Westaway, along with two-time nominee Niki Oudenaarden. Both are also former U SPORTS Track and Field Athletes of the Year and they will join Olympian and former Dino Jessica O'Connell as the University of Calgary's contribution to the Canadian Athletics Team. Four swimmers will also join the ranks for Team Canada including the 2016-17 Canada West Swimmer of the Meet, Danica Ludlow who will be entering her second year at the university in the fall. Tristan Cote, Rob Hill and Lauren Teghtsoonian will also join her on the Canadian Swim Team at the Games.

Other standout Dinos include three men's volleyball players that will be competing with Team Australia including Curtis Stockton, Tim Taylor, and newcomer Regan Fathers who will begin his Dinos career this upcoming fall. 

Announced earlier this month was the men's basketball team which will include David Kapinga and Mambi Diawara, as well as Dinos head coach Dan Vanhooren who will take on an assistant role with Team Canada. From women's soccer, Canada West Player of the Year Jordan Smith will compete with goalkeeper Sarah Dilling.

Other athletes who attend the University of Calgary will also take part in the Games with Team Canada in a variety of sports. These include Austin Bauer, badminton, Bryan Ho, table tennis, Chloe Lee, taekwondo, Reuel D'Souza and Aleksa Stanic, water polo, and Jason Leung, wushu.  Dr. Marcus Robinson of the Sports Medicine Centre on campus and Lindsay Franco from Dinos Athletics will be part of the Team Canada Mission Staff to round out the delegation heading to Taipei City in August. 

As previously announced, the Canadian delegation includes five teams selected and managed exclusively in-house by U SPORTS, while all remaining teams are managed by their respective National Sport Organizations (NSOs). The 393-member delegation includes 276 athletes, 114 mission and support staff, and three referees in 16 sports.

"We are extremely proud of all of our Canadian university student-athletes and staff representing Team Canada at the 2017 Summer Universiade," said Lisette Johnson-Stapley, Chief Sport Officer at U SPORTS. "The FISU Games are the second-largest multi-sport event in the world next to the Summer Olympics, providing a natural high-performance international pathway. At the Rio 2016 Games, 56 former Universiade participants competed, bringing home nine medals. One year later, we are looking forward to the next generation of Olympic stars making their mark in Taipei - the experience and memories they will take away will be life-changing."

Canada won eight medals at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea – two gold (Kylie Masse, Swimming; Carol-Ann Ware and Celina Jayne Toth, Diving) four silver (women's water polo; women's basketball; Benjamin Thorne and Gabriela Stafford, Athletics) and two bronze Carol-Ann Ware and Celina Jayne Toth, Diving; Brittany Crew, Athletics.

The Canadian women's basketball and women's volleyball teams to be announced at a later date.

The Opening Ceremony of the 2017 Summer Universiade will be held on Aug. 19 at Taipei Municipal Stadium, beginning at 7 a.m. ET (7 p.m. local time). 

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY DELEGATES

Athletics
O'Connell, Jessica            Kinesiology         2016 grad (MSc)
Oudenaarden, Nicole        Kinesiology
Westaway, Jenna              Science              2017 grad (BSc, geology)
 
Badminton
Bauer, Austin                     Haskayne School of Business
 
Basketball
Diawara, Mambi               Arts
Kapinga, David                 Arts
Vanhooren, Dan               Dinos Athletics
 
Soccer-Women
Dilling, Sarah                     Werklund School of Education
Smith, Jordan                    Arts
 
Swimming
Cote, Tristan                        Arts
Hill, Robert                           Arts
Ludlow, Danica                    Arts
Teghtsoonian, Lauren         Science
 
Table Tennis
Ho, Bryan                           Schulich School of Engineering
 
Taekwondo
Lee, Chloe                          Science
 
Volleyball-Men
Fathers, Regan (AUS)         Arts
Stockton, Curtis (AUS)        Arts
Taylor, Tim (AUS)                Arts
 
Water Polo-Men
D'Souza, Reuel                  Kinesiology
Stanic, Aleksa                    Haskayne School of Business
 
Wushu
Leung, Jason                     Schulich School of Engineering
 
Mission Staff
Franco, Lindsay                 Dinos Athletics
Robinson, Dr. Marcus         Sports Medicine Centre