Dal alumni – and students – are among the athletes in Toronto this summer for the 2015 Pan Am Games. CBC has compiled short profiles for each of the athletes from Nova Scotia.

Mark de Jonge (BEng’09) / Canoe-Kayak Sprint: At age 31, de Jonge is counted among the best paddlers in the world. In 2011, he won a medal at the World Cup. A year later, he won bronze at the 2012 London Olympics. In 2013, he won his first World Cup gold medal and finished second at the ICF World Championships.

Hannah Vaughan (BA’12) / Canoe-Kayak Sprint: Vaughn says she’s always wanted to compete at the Olympic level. At the 2005 Canada Games in Nova Scotia, she won three gold medals and a bronze. After swimming competitively for the Dalhousie Tigers during a three-year hiatus from paddling, Vaughan was back on the World Cup circuit in 2014 in the K-4 and K-2 events.

Danielle Boyd (BA’13) / Sailing: Born in Kingston, Ont. Danielle ‘Dannie’ Boyd was a member of the Dalhousie Sailing Team that competed at the 32nd Student Yachting World Cup in France. In 2012, she had represented Canada at the ISAF Equipment Evaluation of skiffs for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Jason McCoombs/Canoe-Kayak Sprint: At age 19, McCoombs first qualified for the Canadian Olympic Team in 2012. In 2013, he won silver in the C-1 200m race at the first-ever ICF Under-23 World Championships in Welland. Born in Halifax, he’s working on a double major in physics and applied mathematics at Dalhousie.

Ellie Black / Gymnastics-Artistic: In 2014, Black made history at age 18 when she placed ninth in the women’s individual all-around at the FIG World Championships — Canada’s best result in the event. Black also became the first Canadian female artistic gymnast to win a medal at the world student games since 1983. Born and raised in Halifax, she’s on a hiatus from her kinesiology studies at Dalhousie to focus on competing in Toronto 2015 and Rio 2016.

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