Former UNBC Timberwolves basketball star Kady Dandeneau made history Tuesday at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
The 32-year-old Dandeneau, a native of Pender Harbour who played with the T-wolves for six years from 2007-13, scored a team-high six points and collected nine rebounds and four assists in Tuesday’s final.Canada went undefeated after preliminary-round wins over Kenya, 17-1, and England, 13-8, and a 12-5 semifinal win over Scotland.
Meanwhile, in the 3X3 men’s wheelchair basketball tournament, former UNBC student Robert “Bo” Hedges and Fort St. John native, will be coming back to Canada with a silver medal. Hedges’ disability is rated at 2.5 on the wheelchair basketball classification system. He had one point and five assists in the gold-medal game.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)