BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Indiana University alum Shae Fournier (Winnipeg, Manitoba/Grant Park) and current University of California star Emma Wright talk about competing with Team Canada at the 29th Summer Universiade (University Games) hosted by Taipei City in Chinese Taipei/Taiwan on August 18-29.
Fournier, Wright and the Canadian Women will commence the tournament by facing New Zealand on Friday, August 18, at 9:00 a.m. local/9:00 p.m. Eastern. Action continues versus Russia (Sunday, August 20), Hungary (Tuesday, August 22), Japan (Thursday, August 24) and Great Britain (Friday, August 25) prior to the Quarterfinals (Saturday, August 26), Semifinals (Sunday, August 27) and Championship (Tuesday, August 29).
A 2014 graduate of Indiana, Fournier (2011-2014) is one of the most decorated players in Indiana water polo history. She holds the top two school records for single-season goals (95 in 2014, 83 in 2013) and career goals (305), and is second in IU history in career steals (311). Fournier was the 2014 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Player of the Year, and earned second team Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-America and College Sport Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) First-Team Academic All-America honors. Fournier is one of five players in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history to score 300 or more goals in her career.
The Most Valuable Player of the 2014 CWPA Championship hosted by Bucknell University for leading the Hoosiers to an 11-10 victory over Princeton University, she is among a select group of Indiana women’s water polo players who won a pair of league titles during their tenure. In 2011 as a freshman, Fournier helped her squad down the University of Michigan, 5-3, at home in Bloomington for the program’s first title since taking home the 2003 crown.
The University Games mark the third major international event of the Summer for Fournier who combined with current Indiana goalie Jessica Gaudreault (Sr., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada/St. Joseph) to help Canada finish in Fourth Place at the 2017 FINA World Championship in Budapest, Hungary, at the Alfred Hajos Pool. For Canada, the Fourth Place finish marked a dramatic seven place rise in the international ranks as the team finished 11th at the 2015 FINA World Championship in Kazan, Russia.
Fournier and Gaudreault previously helped Canada to a runner-up finish at the 2017 FINA World League Super Final in Shanghai, China, in June.
