UBC KIN Games team leaders Mika Fogelman, Grace Huang, Olivia Tobias report on making history at the 2020 KIN Games

 

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