Canada’s National Adaptive team is holding a camp at the St. Catharines Rowing Club, June 14 to 20.
The camp will feature the LTA (legs, trunk and arms) coxed four training group. Athletes attending include St. Catharines native Laura Comeau, Victoria Nolan, Meghan Montgomery and Tony Theriault – all from the fourth-place boat at the 2009 [...]

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The recently concluded Rowing Canada Aviron Junior Trials featured the largest number of entries ever for national junior trials, with more than 100 athletes.
Hosted by the South Niagara Rowing Club at the Welland International Flatwater Centre, June 7-8, the finishers included Victoria City Rowing Club’s Graham Obee and Niall Paltiel in the men’s pair in [...]

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A strong tailwind was again blowing down the course at Malta Lake in Poznan, Poland – causing havoc for some of the smaller boats at the 2009 World Rowing Championships. The final race of the day, however, proved to have a silver lining for Canada with the men’s eight taking a medal.
Germany won in 5:24.13, [...]

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Canada jumped through a couple more hurdles today at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland to advance two more crews in Olympic boat-class events.
The lightweight men’s four got the job done in today’s repechage, coming second – Switzerland took the rep in 6:02.59 and Canada secured the next qualifying spot (top two advance [...]

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McMaster rowing alumnae Rebecca Gregory (Brampton) will represent Canada at the World Rowing Under 23 Championship in the lightweight women’s fours in Racice, Czech Republic, from July 23 to 26.
The World Rowing Under 23 Championships are a showcase of up-and-coming athletes who are above a junior level age, but are still in need of further [...]

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