{"id":7282,"date":"2014-07-09T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2014-07-23T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:01:51","slug":"haberer-is-vancouver-bound-taking-on-canada-in-special-olympics-summer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/haberer-is-vancouver-bound-taking-on-canada-in-special-olympics-summer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Haberer is Vancouver-bound taking on Canada in Special Olympics Summer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner<\/strong><\/p>\n

From July 8 to 12, athletes from all over Canada are headed to Vancouver for the 2014 Special Olympics Summer Games and Aurora\u2019s Mary Haberer will be right there in the thick of it.<\/p>\n

Haberer is no stranger to the Special Olympics, having participated in plenty of regional and provincial competitions in swimming and softball over the years.<\/p>\n

Now she is taking her talents to the national stage and the Aurora Master Ducks swimmer couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m nervous because it is my very first time,\u201d she recently told The Auroran. \u201cIt is for the Nationals and yes, it\u2019s the first time I will visit Vancouver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haberer has been swimming for about 15 years and will be competing in the 100m freestyle, the 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle and doing the 25m butterfly, which has become one of her favourites.<\/p>\n

Haberer\u2019s coach, Lloyd Brown, has known her for about seven years, but the two have been training intensely for about a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is huge for her,\u201d Brown said. \u201cShe\u2019s been excited about it since she found out in November that she had qualified for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two have become good friends over the years and Brown said he is proud to see her take the next step to the national level after seeing her work so hard in the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has incredible drive and she is driven to do things and likes to do everything,\u201d he said. \u201cShe never admits to being tired, she\u2019ll do a huge workout and then say she\u2019s ready for more. She\u2019s always smiling and always happy and when she goes into things, she goes full force. When she does something, she doesn\u2019t do it halfway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haberer has been training hard over the past few months, spending plenty of time in both the gym and pool. She goes to the gym for two hours about six times a week and then in the pool with the Aurora Master Ducks every week.<\/p>\n

Brown said when it comes to being prepared for a big match, Haberer is always ahead of the game, making his job easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have to do a whole lot,\u201d he said. \u201cMentally I try to just get her ready for the race, but I don\u2019t really have to do much to get her ready, she\u2019s always ready on her own. All I have to do is get her focused a bit more sometimes. She\u2019s totally driven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helping her get ready for competition, Haberer recently took part in the first ever swim meet hosted by the Special Ducks in Aurora.<\/p>\n

In total there were about 25 people from Aurora and a few from Newmarket that took part.<\/p>\n

But make no mistake; she is focused on doing her best this week in Vancouver.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From July 8 to 12, athletes from all over Canada are headed to Vancouver for the 2014 Special Olympics Summer Games and Aurora\u2019s Mary Haberer will be right there in the thick of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7283,"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-10-15.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1Ts","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 18:47:38","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\/7282","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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}