Jessica Frotten won her second bronze medal Friday at the Parapan Am Games in Toronto.

Born and raised in Whitehorse, Frotten posted a personal best of one minute, one second and 13 one hundredths in the 400-metre wheelchair event, edging her teammate Ilana Dupont by half a second for the podium.

“That was probably my best race of the whole Games,” Frotten said in an interview this morning from her home in Regina. “Everything just kind of came together. I was feeling really good on the warm-up track. It was a good race.”

Chelsea McClammer of the United States earned gold in the 400-metre in a Parapan Am record of 56:54 and her teammate Shirley Reilly took silver in a time of 58:64.

Frotten won her first bronze on Thursday in the 100-metre sprint, finishing behind Dupont and just edging U.S. wheelchair athlete Jill Moore by just 13 one hundredths of a second.

Had it not been for a sideswipe by a Bermuda athlete in the 800 metre that cost her precious time, the 27-year-old former Yukoner believes she would have had another medal.

For the 400 on Friday, Frotten was on the outside in lane eight. She said she didn’t know how close it was between her and Dupont until after she crossed the finish line.

“My dad (Howard Frotten of Whitehorse) always tells me ‘keep your brain in the lane, so I was just having an awesome race.”

The 200 metre, her favourite race, was not included in her category.

But she likes the 400 as well because it’s once around the track and racers stay in their own lane unlike the longer races.

“You can get up to speed and you can really put all your power into it,” she said,

Frotten said Dupont was also her roommate in Toronto, and it was nice to room with and learn from a veteran wheelchair athlete.

“And then we both made the podium in the 100. That was awesome.”

Frotten said the whole Games experience was breathtaking.

“It was pretty incredible when you go out there and everybody is cheering so loud for Canada,” she said. “It just blew my mind.”

Toronto, Frotten added, did a great job of hosting the Games.

She pointed their accommodations were about 45 minutes to an hour away from the venue in York. And with traffic particularly heavy on Friday, the bus taking them to the stadium Friday morning was escorted the whole way by police with three officers on motorcycles in front and three in back, complete with lights and sirens.

“I felt like a rock star.”

Frotten is taking a week off from heavy training. But she’ll be back at it quickly, as she prepares for the world wheelchair championships in Doha, Qatar.

The national team for the world championships has not been named yet but Frotten is confident she’ll be a part of it, though there are no guarantees.

“I think I had a really good showing at the Parapan Am Games so I am pretty sure I’ll be on the team.”

And of course, there is the ultimate goal of qualifying for the Paralympics next year in Rio de Janeiro.

Frotten hasn’t lost sight of that.

Frotten was injured in a car accident along the Alaska Highway west of Whitehorse in 2009. She moved to Regina where she continues her rehabilitation and training.