Eric Fernandes
“I’ve always been working out. Ever since highschool I’ve been into fitness, all my friends worked out so I just started getting in the gym with the boys, brolifting in basements and gyms, ended up loving it and took it
“I’ve always been working out. Ever since highschool I’ve been into fitness, all my friends worked out so I just started getting in the gym with the boys, brolifting in basements and gyms, ended up loving it and took it
“I’ve always been active. I was fairly athletic when I was younger but in my early 30s I started having children. I have 3 kids. Somewhere in the midst of raising children I realized I had lost my fitness. I
“I had a strange path into bobsledding. Most people get recruited from testing camps or from University football/sprinting or things like that. For me, I was living in Calgary, was bored one day, went to the bobsled track because there
“Some people say that grade 12 is probably the best year of high school just because it’s your last year, it’s a lot more chill and you can have your life sorted out. For me, it was the opposite. By
“As a fourth-generation track cyclist in my family, I am following in the footsteps of my great grandfather, grandfather and father. My grandfather – my inspiration – rode for Canada at the Olympics and attends as many of my races
“Growing up as an Indian girl with immigrant parents was difficult to say the least. There were many barriers I had to face growing up not only being a girl but being Indian as well and working to break gender
“Everything happens for a reason. And that’s the motto I stand by. From a young age I played a variety of sports, baseball, volleyball, soccer, but the one I put the most work into was always basketball. Throughout high school
“I started soccer because my sister played it and she like it so my parents got me into it. I tried playing softball too but I was always missing softball to go to soccer because it was more intense so