Interview with Danielle Merasty

Interview with Danielle Merasty

Danielle Merasty participated in the 2009 Canada Summer Games in Charlottetown, PEI as a swimmer for Team New Brunswick. This interview covers her memories of those Games including relationships with her coaches, teammates, family and friends. Danielle also shares her journey into adulthood, and both the mental and physical struggles that came with phasing out of competitive swimming.

Friendships at the Canada Games

Athlete Mentality in Competitions

Indigenous/First Nations Relations

Mental Health

2020-08-17

video

English

CGOH-001

Vlossak, Elizabeth

Linzel, Jessica

Merasty, Danielle

Recorded over Microsoft Teams in St. Catharines (Ontario, Canada), and Grimsby (Ontario, Canada).

2009

Canada -- Prince Edward Island -- Charlottetown
Canada -- New Brunswick -- Fredericton

Permission from the SOHA is required for publication or reproduction.

This oral history interview was conducted digitally via Microsoft Teams. The video was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, at which point an introduction sequence and question slides were added, and the interviewer's video and audio were removed.

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Swimming

Team New Brunswick

Athletes

Friends

Competition

Sport

School

Coaches