{"id":27021,"date":"2020-07-16T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=27021"},"modified":"2020-07-16T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:45:31","slug":"aurora-barbarians-fly-half-is-off-to-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-barbarians-fly-half-is-off-to-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Barbarians fly-half is off to British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chloe Daniels works at The Briars Golf Course in\nmaintenance. She\u2019s been working there for the past few summers. It\u2019s a fun job\nas she finishes up her high school career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her rugby career, on the other hand, the one she adores and\nwhere she feels completely at home, is her utter joy \u2013 and it is the part of\nher life currently on pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much like plenty of other athletes seemingly holding onto\nhope as it has never been held before, Daniels is heading off to Langford,\nBritish Columbia in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t for vacation. The 17-year-old fly-half is joining\nTeam Canada Rugby 7s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an awesome opportunity. I\u2019m super excited for the\nchallenge. Just to move out to Langford will be super fun and a great\nexperience within itself. The rugby will be great. I\u2019m excited to learn a lot\nand learn from the older girls that are far more experienced,\u201d Daniels said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if she expected this, Daniels says this is what\nshe has always wanted. She has always aspired to move out to B.C to join the\nprogram and accomplish a life-long dream of Olympic glory. She never expected\nit, but she always wanted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sutton native says her father played rugby growing up. Her\nsister, Hannah, began playing in high school, earning a place on U-18 Canada 7s\nroster and U-20 Canada 15s roster respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if she wanted to play, Daniels says she was\nemboldened by family success and joined the Aurora Barbarians at the age of 12.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter playing rugby when I was in Grade Six, I really loved [that] the game has a place for everyone. It has different skill sets. I really\nlike that aspect of it and just the contact and speed of it is super fun and\nexciting. It\u2019s super exciting to watch and to play.\u201d \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, she loves the space on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With only seven players on either side of the pitch, as a\nfly-half, Daniels is able to take control of the game. She is able to make\ndecisions and facilitate the ball. But she knows how challenging it can be as\nwell. It\u2019s a lot faster. It\u2019s a lot more physically demanding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what has been a huge part of her life, Daniels praises\nthe Barbarians organization for everything members, staff and players have\nprovided for her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Aurora Barbarians have done a lot for me to get to\nwhere I am, especially Khalil Ajram. He was a big part in that and he helped to\nget people involved in the game.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a tightly knit, supportive family. She has made her\nclosest friends through the sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniels is ready to train and pick the brains of Canadian\nveteran players. It\u2019s a stepping stone in further developing her game. While\ndoing so, she\u2019ll also develop further as a person, living with a billet family\nrecommended by a teammate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She isn\u2019t totally nervous. Well, it\u2019s a fusion of\nnervousness and pure excitement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniels says the 2021 Olympics don\u2019t seem to be in her\nsights, as much as she would want them to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She looks into the future at the 2024 Olympic games with the goal of representing her country on the biggest stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Belardi<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chloe Daniels works at The Briars Golf Course in maintenance. She\u2019s been working there for the past few summers. It\u2019s a fun job as she finishes up her high school career. Her rugby career, on the other hand, the one she adores and where she feels completely at home, is her utter joy \u2013 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-71P","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 06:56:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}