Former Calgary school teacher Janelle Morrison was on her way back from her new home in B.C. on Sunday for a weekend fundraiser to boost her new career as a professional triathlete when a serious highway collision left her in a medically-induced coma.

And while the 33-year-old remains in B.C. hospital as doctors try to repair a ruptured diaphragm, a punctured lung and several broken bones, organizers of the event that had originally been planned to help her athletic dreams now hope it will help with her recovery.

“The two of us had struggled financially to do the professional athlete thing so we created this fundraiser last year,” said Morrison’s teammate Jordan Bryden.

“Now we’re just trying to use the event to make her some money to help with her recovery.”

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Findlay beat an impressive field in Monterrey. Photo: Paul Phillips/Triathlon.org

As a teenager, Paula Findlay was pretty adept at tap, jazz and ballet, so a victory dance might well be in her repertoire.

But members of the International Triathlon Union aren’t likely to see it, even if she keeps winning races.

The shy 20-year-old Edmonton triathlete won a World Cup in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday by a rather impressive 33 seconds over Japan’s Ai Ueda, meaning Findlay had some time to plan a celebration while legging it toward the finish line.

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Canada’s high-performance triathletes are charging into the 2010 season replete with veteran leadership and podium potential.

Building on one of the most successful seasons for Canada’s senior-level athletes, Triathlon Canada named a stellar line up of 12 athletes that will don the maple leaf while competing in World Championship Series and development level races around the world.

Two-time Olympic medalist, Simon Whitfield, will lead a total of three Canadian men and four women that will make up Team Teck at World Championship Series events in 2010. The Victoria native, whose 2009 campaign was highlighted with a victory at the prestigious ITU Triathlon Elite Cup in Des Moines, Iowa, will be joined in men’s races by fellow Victoria resident Brent McMahon, who finished 18th in the 2009 Grand Final and Kyle Jones, of Oakville, Ont., who had a ninth-place finish at the Ishigaki World Cup to go along with this 25th-place finish at the Grand Final.

Canada will field a stellar line-up of elite women who all mounted the international podium in 2009. Vancouver’s Lauren Groves, who captured her first World Cup podium in Des Moines, Iowa, will lead the four Canucks. Groves will be joined by Montreal’s Kathy Tremblay who won a World Cup silver medal en route to finishing 13th overall on the World Championship Series. Victoria’s Kirsten Sweetland, who posted two top-eight finishes on the World Championship Series along with a World Cup victory in Australia, will return for her fourth season on the elite team. Edmonton’s Paula Findlay, who won a bronze medal at the Under-23 World Championships, rounds out the women’s squad.

Triathlon Canada identified a talented pool of five athletes, including three men and two women, who will make up the 2010 National Development Team.

Victoria’s Andrew McCartney confirmed his spot on the development team with a third-place finish at the 2009 Under-23 PATCO Championships, and by winning the Canadian Championships. Connor Hammond, of London, Ont., returns to the national team after a strong season where he won the Canadian Junior Championships, and finished second at the Canada Games and PATCO Junior Championships. Victoria’s Jeff Phillips, who was the first-ever individual male winner at the Canada Games, rounds out the men’s development group.

Two young Victoria residents will represent Canada on the Development Team this year. Alison Hooper, who had a breakthrough rookie season competing in triathlon while winning gold at the Canada Games and Canadian Junior Championships, will form a one-two punch with Kyla Coates who was first at the 2009 PATCO Junior Championships.

While individual race plans for the 2010 season have developed for each of the national team athletes, triathlon’s World Championship Series kicks off April 11 in Sydney, Australia.

A fluid and enthralled audience numbering in the several hundreds and clad in toques and layers, flowed from one vantage point to the next Saturday, as the country’s top distance runners wound around the undulating course.

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