Jessica wishes her dad had a chance to see her on Team Canada.
Instead, she would learn just a month before, that her father suffered an unexpected heart attack and died. It almost stopped her from going to tryouts, but she remembered one thing he told her.
“A week before he passed, he said, ‘I know you can make Team Canada,’” said Jessica.
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