Penticton’s Andrew Cooke is among 40 swimmers nominated for selection to the Canadian Paralympic Committee for its Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games team.
The announcement was made Monday in Toronto. Following the 2015 Can Am Para-swimming Championships held this past weekend, Swimming Canada, the sport governing body, nominated 24 men and 16 women.
The team includes 15 Paralympians.
“It was such an honour to announce the nominations for the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games swim team this morning,” said Team Canada’s Swimming Canada Para-swimming national head coach Craig McCord of Richmond.
“The team this summer is made up of 25 swimmers who will also compete at IPC World Championships in Glasgow and have the potential to compete for medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games,” said McCord. “We are working in a number of areas to develop our next generation of athletes identified as 2020 podium potential, and they will have the opportunity to compete at Parapan Ams on home soil.”
Canadian Paralympic Committee for the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games Aug. 7 to 15.
Cooke, a member of the KISU swim club, competed in the 2014 Pan Pacific Para Games in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 6-10 and picked up a silver medal, bronze medal and Canadian record. Cooke couldn’t be reach for comment.
