Soccer: Tyson Farago

Soccer: Tyson Farago

Farago was a part of the Canadian U20 team that participated at the 2010 Torneo COTIF. Farago received his first call up to the Canadian senior team on January 22, 2015. He currently plays for the FC Edmonton and is number 21. He is born on May 1,1991 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is 25 years old. Farago is 1.89m and is a goalkeeper for his team.

Prayer: God our Father,
You have created us to strive for the best.
Grant to all athletes, coaches, and fans,
strength to pursue excellence during this event.
We pray for the safety of these athletes;
Protect them from injury and harm.
And finally, we pray for your grace,
that you would provide us
with the endurance to pursue our heavenly prize:
eternal life in Your Son. Amen

Swimming: Ashton Baumabann (born May 1, 1993) is a Canadian competition swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke. Baumann will compete for Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 200 m breaststroke. He is the son of former Canadian Olympic swimmer Alex Baumann. Often told he looks like his double Olympic gold medallist father, Ashton Baumann is set to become an Olympian himself after winning his specialty, the 200m breaststroke, at the 2016 Canadian Trials and cutting his personal best time by almost three seconds. The younger Baumann made his international debut at the 2011 Pan Am Games in Guadalajara where he made the final of the 200m breaststroke. Two years later he made his FINA World Championship debut in Barcelona. But injuries began to take their toll on his progress. In 2013 he suffered two stress fractures in his ribs, including one before the world championships, as well as a stress fracture in his pubic bone while at the worlds, all from training. Out of the water for six months, he missed the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific Championships in 2014. In early 2015 he suffered another injury, torn cartilage and a bruised bone in his left elbow, which kept him out of the Pan Am Games. Having considered “throwing in the towel” during those two years, he was only able to truly dedicate himself fully to swimming in the eight months leading up to the 2016 Trials. Despite living halfway across the world, Baumann and younger sister Tabitha are both proud to compete wearing the maple leaf because if it wasn’t for Canada, they wouldn’t be swimmers.

Prayer: I dive off the block
my head in a rush
the cold water brings me a shock.
Kicking my feet as fast as I can
I can’t slow down
number one is my plan.
Faster and faster
there’s no stopping now
second place would be a disaster.

Football: Jim Thrope

Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma. He played as part of several all American Indian teams throughout his career, and "barnstormed" as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians.

From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which would become the National Football League (NFL) in 1922.

He played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression. Thorpe struggled to earn a living after that, working several odd jobs. Thorpe suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and poverty.

In a poll of sports fans conducted by ABC Sports, Thorpe was voted the Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century out of 15 other athletes including Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Wayne Gretzky, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan.

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