Jenna Hamel will be sparring for her country in Finland this fall.
She has been selected to Team Canada’s Junior team for the International Taekwon-Do Federation World Championship.
“I am very excited, very nervous, but I am ready,” Hamel told My PG Now, looking forward to the September competition.
Hamel, 17, recently represented Prince George’s Family Taekwon-Do in Vernon at the Canadian National Taekwon-Do Championship and finished second place in the Junior Black Belt division.
“From Nationals I went to a selection camp,” she explained, which is where she was selected to go to Finland.
Across all of the divisions in the tournament, Hamel said Team Canada consists of about 50 people – she said she is the only one from northern BC that made the cut.
“I have been in Taekwon-Do since I was eight,” she said, “I have been training for 10 years… and I train at least two to three times a week.”
This will be her first time competing internationally.
The tournament will take place from September 4-10, information on the event, and (eventually) results and a livestream feed can be found here.