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Diana Dowthwaite, who played volleyball with Barb when she was in Ottawa, is now retired and is playing pickleball in Ottawa with her husband Paul Leck, who was a science teacher in the high school that Julia and Sarah went to in Barrhaven.  They won a gold medal in the 3.0 level of the Ottawa tournament. They were pretty good athletes and some of the 3.0 teams are pretty old and decrepit.  So they thought they were pretty good.  Then they went to Kingston to play in their age bracket.  They didn't realize that when you play in your age bracket you can come up against all levels, even 5.0 teams.  So they found out the hard way by driving all the way to Kingston which is two hours from Ottawa losing two straight games in a double elimination tournament and going home again.  Barb had to laugh because they thought they were so good when they won in Ottawa.