When the Summer Universiade (FISU Games) kicks off on July 6, there will be a strong Langley connection on Team Canada.
The Games run July 6 to 17 in Kazan, Russia.
The men’s volleyball team features three former members of the Trinity Western Spartans as well as one current player.
Dan Jansen vanDoorn and Stevan Marshall — who graduated this past year — and 2012 graduate Marc Howatson are on the roster as is fifth-year Spartan Lucas Van Berkel.
Jansen vanDoorn is a Langley Christian alumni.
Django Lovett is one of three track and field athletes who will represent Canada.
Lovett, a Brookswood Secondary graduate, just completed his junior season at the University of New Mexico with the Lobos track and field team. He is a high jumper who trains in the summers with the Abbotsford-based Valley Royals.
Two javelin throwers from the Langley Mustangs Track and Field Club, Kyle Nielsen and Tiffany Matteazzi, will also wear the red and white in Russia.
The Trinity Western Spartans women’s soccer team is also sending four players to play for Canada in Kristen Funk, Colleen Webber, Jilian Dietrich and Natalie Boyd.
Dietrich and Funk graduated this past year while Webber and Boyd are back.
And the Spartans women’s volleyball team is sending Alicia Perrin and Kelci French to Russia.
