Bradford teen Olivia Deane received two awards this past weekend at the Ontario Karate Federation (OKF) Summit and Awards Banquet in Burlington.
She was nominated for Female Athlete of the Year in the U18 Girls Kumite category, and the Special OKF Female Athletes Recognition International Performance Revelations category, and won both.
This past summer, Deane won gold for Team Canada at the Junior Pan America Games in Ecuador for kumite karate.
Deane, 16, has been practicing with Jennings School of Karate for the past nine years.
Jennings School of Karate also picked up two awards: The 2019 DOJO Membership Recognition, and one awarded to Jim Jennings for Coach of The Year.
