Sara Groenewegen, a pitcher for Team Canada women’s softball team, was supposed to have a very busy spring preparing for the 2020 Olympics — then the novel coronavirus outbreak hit.
The 24-year-old was with the team in Halifax for a six-week training camp, but the trip was cut short when COVID-19 landed in Canada early March.
Within a few days, the team’s trip to California was cancelled and rumours were swirling that the 2020 Olympic Games were going to be cancelled, too.
Soon after, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced it wouldn’t send a team to Tokyo unless the Games were postponed. For Groenewegen and her teammates, this was especially tough news to swallow because 2020 was going to be the first time softball was included in the