OYAMA - For most of her young life, volleyball player Bree Sproule has been a rarity in the small community of Oyama, British Columbia.She's the only deaf person in Oyama, the northern-most point of Lake Country. She was the only deaf player on her school and club volleyball teams and the only deaf kid of six siblings, born and raised in Oyama.
But over the past year Sproule, 19, has been hanging with people much like her. She has completed her first year at Gaulladet University in Washington, DC, the world's only university specifically for Deaf people where she was a member of the women's volleyball team.
And last week she departed with 10 other Deaf volleyball players as part of Team Canada that will take part in the 22nd Deaflympics in Sofia, Bulgaria. Close to 4,000 Deaf people from 84 countries will be competing.
"It's really exciting, I've never been to Europe before," said Sproule through her interpreter, her sister Brooke. "It's going to be a new experience for me. I'm really excited to see the different culture and to learn about the history. It's going to be really fun to be with the team because we are all going to be together and there is going to be a lot of Deaf people there." Read more at http://www.lakecountrycalendar.com/news/216386361.html
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