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Lew is Lima bound with eyes set on World Championships

Grappler hopes to take another step toward Olympics
Wrestling
Jacqueline Lew will compete at the Cadet Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru, next month, where she hopes to garner a strong enough showing to qualify for the world championships later this year.

Jacqueline Lew will be getting into the ring with some international competition next month. 

The Coquitlam athlete will spend Canada Day in Lima, Peru, where she will compete in the Cadet Pan American Championships, an event featuring competitors from around the world.

This is the second year in a row that Lew has made the national team and she hopes that after battling in Lima she will qualify for the World Championships in September, which will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia. She said she hopes her accomplishments will get her close to a spot on Canada’s Olympic team. The 17-year-old competitor has been busy the last few months.

After securing her spot on the national team earlier this year, she grabbed gold at the Western Junior Regionals in Las Vegas and she was recently inducted into the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame as Junior Female Athlete for 2015. 

The honour caps a season that saw the young athlete win gold at the United World Wrestling Cadet Trials in Calgary,  gold at the northwest regional juniors in Washington and first place at the B.C. Provincials. 

She currently trains with coach Frank Mensah with the Coast Wrestling Academy at the Pinetree Community Centre. She also works with provincial high school development coaches John Pineda and Kate Walker along with Simon Fraser University head coaches Dave McKay and Mike Jones. Lew is currently trying to raise money for her trip to Peru. She has started a GoFundMe page at www.gofundme.com/jacquelinelew2016. 

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