Paris Olympics 2024: Punjab based Jessica Gaudreault part of Canada’s water polo team

Who is Jessica Gaudreault? Water Polo player Jessica Gaudreault hails from Fatehgarh Sahib, with roots in Punjab. Jessica is now going to make waves at the Paris Olympics 2024. She will be the goalkeeper for Canada. Jessica’s mother Ajit Kaur Tiwana was born in Chanarthal Kalan, the largest village in Fatehgarh Sahib district.

She started playing Polo from 2008, at the age of 14 and now she is a part of Canada women’s water polo team. She started playing water polo in 2008 at the age of 14. Her parents enrolled her in a summer camp when she showed interest in water sports. Her parents enrolled her in a summer camp when she showed interest in water sports. Since then, she has never looked back.

Jessica contributed to Canada’s fifth-place finish at the inaugural FINA World Youth Championship 2012. After this, she helped Canada to win the Silver Medal at FINA World League In the year 2017. In this, she was on the list of best goalkeepers. The Capital Wave Swimming and Water Polo Club representative won silver medals at the Toronto 2015, Lima 2019, and Santiago 2023 Pan-American Games.

If we talk about her studies, she completed her studies in Chemistry at Indiana University in 2019. She joined the University of Michigan team as a coach in 2022. This made her the first woman of Asian-Indian descent to coach in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

According to the information the grandparents of Jessica, maternal grandfather Amarjit Singh Sathi and mother Ajit Kaur Tiwana from village Chanarthal Kalan said we are very happy that she was selected for the team of Olympic.

Not only Jessica selected for the Olympics but also two more Punjabi athletes Jasneet Nijjar and Amar Dhesi will be representing Canada in Paris. Jasneet Kaur, who is 23 years old, lives in British Columbia and will be in Canada’s 4x400m women’s relay team.

Amar, 23, who is also from British Columbia, made his Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, where he finished 13th in the men’s 125kg freestyle event. His father Balbir was an elite wrestler in India before immigrating to Canada and starting the Khalsa Wrestling Club for youth in Surrey, BC in 1976.