Brock’s Vanessa Keefe will wrestle for U SPORTS gold Saturday at Canada Games Park.

Brock’s Vanessa Keefe will be looking for her first U SPORTS gold medal Saturday at the 2025 Wrestling Canada Lutte U SPORTS Invitational Championships at Canada Games Park.

The 20-year-native of Prince Edward Island is a three-time Ontario University Athletics champion and won U SPORTS bronze in 2023 and silver in 2024.

The third-year kiniesiology major won all three of her 68-kilogram matches by technical superiority Friday to earn her berth in the finals.

“I am excited. I came third, I came second and I plan to win this year.”

She doesn’t think it’s a big advantage to wrestle at home.

“I know a lot of people like wrestling at home but for me I feel that I need to keep my edge because it is really easy to feel like you are just at practice.”

Keefe has had plenty of success away from Brock. At the international level, she placed second in 2024 at the junior Pan-Ams and fifth in 2023 at the under-23 worlds.

Keefe has a goal competing for Canada at the 2028 Olympics.

“I am pretty early in my career right now. Skill-wise, I am working up and I am going to keep getting better. I have been doing well the past three years and I’m excited for the upcoming nationals. I will have seniors, under-23s and I plan to do the non-Olympic trials this year as well.”

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