Halfway through the second week of the 2017 Canada Summer Games, Inuvik swimmer Kierra McDonald had already hit a personal best on every race she raced.
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She feels the nerves before races, but they go away once she hits the water.
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Jenna Guy, another athlete from Inuvik representing Team NWT in swimming, had also hit three personal bests when she talked to the Drum partway through the event.
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Guy said she wasnSA国际影视传媒檛 as nervous as she expected to be, probably thanks to training for the event all summer.
Dawson Elias of Tuktoyaktuk and Cody Greenland of Inuvik were the only two athletes from the area to compete at both the North American Indigenous Games and Canada Summer Games this year.
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He was proud to represent Team NWT twice.
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Despite there being more fans in the stands, Greenland said he doesnSA国际影视传媒檛 tend to feel nervous.
In the first week of competition, Liam Larocque of Inuvik and Kolbi Bernhardt of Tuktoyaktuk competed for Team NWT in basketball and soccer.
