{"id":596,"date":"2021-01-27T18:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidsportcanada.ca\/alberta\/calgary\/?post_type=news_stories&p=596"},"modified":"2021-01-27T18:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:47:04","slug":"team-kidsport-jessica-zelinka","status":"publish","type":"news_stories","link":"https:\/\/kidsportcanada.ca\/alberta\/calgary\/fr\/nouvelles-histoires\/team-kidsport-jessica-zelinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Team KidSport: Jessica Zelinka"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jessica Zelinka is a Canadian pentathlete, heptathlete, and 100 m hurdler. She competed at 2 Olympic Games (2008, 2012) in heptathlon. After having a baby daughter (Anika) in 2009, she came back and broke her Canadian record in heptathlon and qualified for the Games by winning the individual 100 m hurdle finals at the Olympic trials in Calgary (2012). She is now coaching, mentoring, and speaking about the importance of equipping our young athletes with high performance “living” tools; in combining all-around athletic development with empowering mindset practices to build resiliency to handle challenges on and off the field.<\/p>\r\n