This years 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Rugby Sevens Tournament featured two Foothills Athletes in High River's Carmen Izyk and Vulcan's Keyara Wardley who were in Buenos Aires in Argentina representing Team Canada in the international event.

Wardley says they got there a little early and were abled to explore the country before beginning competition.

"It was everybody's first time in Argentina, the whole competition and the village we stayed at was amazing. We were there for a week and a half before the games actually started. So for the first few days we were there we got to explore a little. Our venue was about an hour and a half away, so watching all the scenery on the bus was pretty cool too."

The Rugby Sevens tournament pitted six girls teams and six boys teams against each other.

The countries who made it to the tournament for the girls teams were Canada, New Zealand, France, Tunisia, Colombia and Kazakhstan.

On the boys side national teams included the United States, Japan, Argentina, Samoa, France and South Africa.

Wardley says Canada didn't take home the gold medal, but their final result wasn't too shabby.

"When we got to Argentina our unity as a team just came together. We didn't quite get the outcome we wanted, we really wanted gold, but we still got bronze which was amazing too."

The gold medal for the girls rugby sevens went to New Zealand, while France brought home silver.

While the Canadian team was hoping for gold, Wardley says she was proud of her teams unity in the international tournament in Argentina.

On the boys side, Argentina took gold while France won the silver and Japan the bronze.

Wardley says the hard work isn't over however, as she's moving from the U-18 team onto the women's team.

"There's three of us on this team that are currently centralized on the women's program. For me, after this year I'll be done with U-18, so my next step will be to make it on the top 12 squad for the world series women's team. We train everyday and there's only 12 players that will make it onto a tour so everyday you have to grind it out. It's a lot of hard work, but it's definitely what I want to be doing so I don't mind putting up that competition. The next tour will be in Dubai at the end of November, so my fingers are crossed for making that tour."