A team of 16 UBC KIN students competed at Brock University in Niagara Falls, Ontario in the 2020 Kinesiology Games. Alongside 35 other teams from schools all over Canada, our team competed in four categories: Dance, Academics, Sports, and Spirit. UBC KIN placed 3rd in Spirit and 2nd Overall! This was a huge accomplishment for the KIN team, as they had been preparing for the games since tryouts at the end of September, and UBC had never placed in the overall category, nor in any other category since 2017.
In a joint statement prepared by the captains of the Kin Games team they wrote, “The biggest lesson we have learned throughout all of this is the power of Strength in Numbers which, coincidentally, happened to be the theme of the Kin Games this year. When we all work as a team to build each other up, to do our part to protect our communities, and spread a positive message throughout the UBC Kin and Kin Games community, the stronger we are in fighting through this time of uncertainty.”
KIN Games Team Members included:
Captains: Mika Fogelman, Grace Huang, Olivia Tobias
Dance choreographer: Madison Bulloch
May Guan
Aaron Harpaz
Allison Hill
Davin Hu
Brandon Lam
Jennifer Lim
Samuel Lin
Kei Poon
Veronika Scherer
Myah Sisson
Gurkeerit (Gary) Sidhu
Max Wahl
Joshua Wang