JAN THE MAN’S NOTE

Canada (HACC) held in Toronto in mid-March. Bo Lewis and Januel Ibasco won the preliminary rounds and advanced to the quarter-finals on the second day, as they competed alongside teams from 16 law schools, including American law schools such as Rutgers University and the University of Denver.

Januel Cedrick Ibasco is a proud

Filipino-Canadian and is currently a student at the University of Alberta studying for a Bachelor of Arts in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. Sportsmanship is a big slice of his cake. He is highly-spirited when playing golf, volleyball, and basketball and loves reading, writing and volunteering at church. Jan looks forward to taking up law after his undergraduate degree.

Lewis and Ibasco were the third team in TRU Law history to advance to the quarter-final stage of the HACC. The event was hosted by the Sports and Entertainment Law Society at U of T’s Faculty of Law. HACC is a unique event that provides law students from across the country the opportunity to advance their written and oral advocacy skills within the specialized context of mock National Hockey League (NHL) salary arbitration proceedings.

Coaches for this year’s team were TRU alumni Tiana Reid, Dylan Taylor and Michael Geib.

Each team was assigned three actual NHL arbitration-eligible players from the summer of 2022 and represented either the player or hockey club in three preliminary