
Justina Di Stasio
Cree
Induction Category:
Year Inducted
Athlete
2025
Justina Di Stasio is a proud member of Norway House Cree Nation on her mother, Fiona Di Stasio and maiden name, Arthurson, side of her family. She is of Italian decent on her father, Tony Di Stasio, side of the family. Di Stasio has been a member of Team Canada women’s wrestling program since 2011, and has competed all over the world for her sport.
Starting as a member of the Simon Fraser University Wrestling Team, Di Stasio was a four-time All American, and three-time WCWA National Champion. Di Stasio went on to make her first Senior World Team in 2015, and found international success that summer and placed second at the Pan American Games. She won a bronze medal at the Senior World Championships in 2017, and became a Senior World Champion in 2018. Di Stasio also won the 2019 Pan Am Games, then started to focus on making the Olympic team for Tokyo 2020.
Di Stasio was the Olympic alternate for Team Canada in 2016 and 2020; after the second Olympic trials, she took a break from wrestling during the Covid pandemic to finish her teaching degree, then came back to the sport in 2021.
Di Stasio won the Commonwealth Games in 2022, won the Canadian Olympic Trials in 2023, qualified for the Olympics in February of 2024, and competed for Canada at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, placing 12th.
Di Stasio is now focusing on her teaching career as an Indigenous Resource Teacher in the Burnaby School District, and plans to return to wrestling to learn how to manage a full-time job and training leading into the 2025 season.

