MacIsaac named to Team Canada for FISU Summer Games
Tigers track & field athlete Chelsea MacIsaac has been named to Team Canada for the FISU Summer Games.
Dalhousie Tigers Chelsea MacIsaac has been named to the roster of Team Canada athletics athletes set to compete at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU Summer World University Games this summer.
Hailing from Greenfield, Nova Scotia, MacIsaac recently competed her career with the Tigers by capturing her first U SPORTS medal in shot put and being named the Class of ’55 award winner as Dalhousie’s co-female athlete of the year.
This is the first time the recreation management student will be donning the maple leaf. Normally stepping into the throwers circle for the Tigers in shot put and weight throw, in Germany she will be competing in the hammer throw.
MacIsaac is the second Tiger to be named to a FISU team this season, with women’s hockey goalie and the other half of the co-female athlete of the year winners, Grace Beer, bringing home a silver medal in January.
Team Canada has won 83 medals all-time (10 gold, 40 silver, 33 bronze) in athletics at the at the FISU Summer World University Games. At Naples 2019, Canada won three medals in athletics, including Canada’s only gold of the games, by Sarah Mitton in the shot put.
From 16 to 27 July 2025, around 8,500 student-athletes and officials from over 150 countries will compete for medals in 18 sports – making the 2025 FISU Summer World University Games one of the largest multi-sport events in the world in 2025. MacIsaac and the rest of the athletics team will be competing in Bochum, Germany from July 21-27.