Quest for Gold
Ontario Athlete Assistance Program (OAAP) – Quest for Gold
The Ontario Athlete Assistance Program (OAAP) or “Quest For Gold” is a funding program of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Sport that provides financial support to Ontario’s amateur high performance athletes in the form of “provincial carding”.
ONPARA is the Provincial Sport Organization responsible for administering the Quest For Gold program athlete carding in wheelchair athletics, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, and wheelchair tennis. You can support our athletes by buying Quest for Gold Lottery tickets at your local OLG Outlets across Ontario.
- Posting of Selection Criteria – March 2020
- Application Deadline – see Selection Criteria for each sport
- Draft List of Nominations Posted – April 8, 2020
- Athletes wishing to appeal must contact ONPARA by April 14, 2020
- Appeals must be submitted by April 20, 2020
- Final list of nominated Ontario Card athletes posted – May 22, 2020
Please click on the link below to download the appropriate sport’s selection criteria:
Wheelchair Athletics QFG 2019-20 Final Criteria
Wheelchair Basketball QFG 2019-20 Final Criteria
Wheelchair Rugby QFG 2019-20 Final Criteria
Wheelchair Tennis QFG 2019-20 Final Criteria
2019-20 Quest For Gold FINAL List of Nominees
The Ontario Para Network is pleased to announce a FINAL list of athletes and alternates who have been nominated for Ontario Cards under the 2019-2020 Quest for Gold – Ontario Athlete Assistance Program (OAAP). The athletes nominated were selected using the sport specific selection criteria developed by ONPARA and applied by the Selection Committees.
Wheelchair Athletics | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Wheelchair Tennis |
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Katty Abran | Adel Akhmed | Faisal Burale | Candice Combdon |
Isaiah Christophe | Laura Calovini | Kristen Cameron | Shawn Courchesne |
Tiffany Gaudette | Himmat Dhillon | Ian Crowe | Anne-Marie Dolinar |
Anthony McMillan | Ahmed El-Shwekh | Matt Debly | Gary Luker |
Martha Sandoval Gustafson | Vanessa Giancaterini | Cody Fournie | Gillian Mauro |
Nandini Sharma | Michael Kilonzo | Brianna Hennessy | |
Joanne Lee | Rio Kanda Kovac | ||
Rosie Long | Nick Kovac | ||
Broden Nagle | Dylan Lamoureux | ||
Jason Naval | Jamie Sopha | ||
Victoria Ross | |||
Travis Topping | |||
Sana Worley |
An archived list of past Quest For Gold recipients (2015-2019) can be found here.