Martha McCabe
Bennington Heights Martha McCabe has won the 200-metre breaststroke in the qualifying events for the Toronto Pan Am Games which kick off Wednesday June 10 in Toronto. Martha was in the water at the new Pan Am Sports Centre at 857 Morningside Ave. in Scarborough on Wednesday, April 1. Trials run through to Saturday, April 4, 2015. It a qualifying event for both the Pan American Games in Toronto and the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia this summer. Martha won the bronze medal for the 200-metre in 2011 the World Championships in Shanghai. The well-known local girl was Leaside’s first Athlete of the Year in 2013. Martha’s life, apart from university in Vancouver, has been here at home near her birthplace. Now she is in Toronto after graduating from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Human Kinetics. Morning heats begin at 10 a.m. each day at the new facility, with evening finals beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday’s finals will be followed by the live announcement of the national team for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games and FINA World Championships. Admission to the event is $5 for heats and $15 for finals with children 12 and under free and various packages available. Live webcast is available at: www.swimming.ca/2015TeamCanadaTrials
