Hall of Fame
A two-time Olympian, Lappage moved from Olds, Alta., to Burnaby Mountain and developed into one of the best wrestlers SFU has ever produced. Her story is not one of just success but also one of perseverance and overcoming setbacks.
Lappage represented Canada and SFU with pride and honour at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Tokyo, Japan, respectively. She suffered a career-threatening injury while warming up for her opening Rio bout and had to forfeit, but made a full recovery to return to the international stage. In August 2020, a year before the re-scheduled Tokyo Games, Lappage tore her anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in her career, but she recovered to compete at the Olympics in Japan.
As a university athlete, Lappage won three individual Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association national championships and was a four-time finalist and All-American. She, along with other SFU greats Victoria Anthony, Justina Di Stasio and Helen Maroulis, led SFU to its first ever WCWA team title in 2013.
In her first two years, Lappage helped the program win two CIS team championships, while providing major individual contributions. Lappage won the Canada West Rookie of the Year award for the 2008-09 season. The next season (2009-10), she won the CIS national championship at 63 kilograms.
In addition to the Olympic appearances, Lappage's list of international accomplishments is long.
She won the world junior championship at 63 kilograms in 2010, and then bronze at the 2012 World University Championships. A year later, Lappage took first place at the Francophone Games. In 2014, she won gold at both the Commonwealth Games and the World University Championships. Lappage wrestled to 65-kg silver at the World Championships in 2018 and silver at 68 kgs at the Commonwealth Games that same year.
