Jakarta, tvOnenews.com – The beautiful Indonesian artistic swimming athlete, Nabilah Umarella, managed to create history by managing to emerge champion with her team at the National Championship in Canada titled Canadian National Championship 2024.
Nabilah became champion of the team event by defending her campus at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The Canadian National Artistic Swimming Championship or Inter-Campus League brings together 18 of the best teams in Canada. For your information, Canada is one of the qualified countries for the 2024 Olympic Games. And in the UBC team, there are 3 national team players and former Canadian national team players.
In addition to Nabilah, the UBC team includes Mackenzie Campbell, Hannah Dilger, Marissa Enns, Flynne Gossling, Bree Hanzel, Annika King and Lisa Koyama Wong.
In first place, the UBC team received a total score of 180.4396 points. Second place is McGill University with 172,0000 points, third is University of Toronto with 166.5208 points, fourth is Queens University with 161.6187 points and fifth is University of Ottawa with 154.6375 points.
“It feels good to be the only Asian representative on campus and to be able to join the main team. From the beginning of my arrival, the competition was quite tough, until finally I was able to break into the team Now I am even more optimistic about my presence with Indonesia at the Thailand 2024 SEA Games,” explained JAQ club member Nabilah.
Nabilah is the daughter of Rijal Umarella and Ully Pitaloka who live in Yogyakarta. Her parents then let Nabillah go, who received a scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Culture, namely the second generation BIM scholarship for the sports course. Nabilah studied at UBC Vancouver Canada with a specialization in sports psychology.
“It is quite difficult to determine education and sports. It turns out that synchronizing the two requires a big struggle. We parents only support our children, but if we can succeed in education and sports, it would be even better,” emphasized Ichal, Nabilah’s father, who currently manages waste in Jakarta and Bali. (mir)
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