Canadian rowing team selected for 14th FISU world university championship - U SPORTS

Canadian rowing team selected for 14th FISU world university championship

TORONTO (CIS) – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Monday the 21 student-athletes who will represent Canada at the 14^th FISU world university rowing championship. The event will be held in Poznan, Poland, September 2-4.

Official website: http://rowing2016.com/

FISU website: www.fisu.net/en

The team is made up of 20 rowers exclusively from Ontario University Athletics and Canada West schools, as well as one college athlete. Victoria leads the way with four rowers, while defending Canadian university rowing champion Western sees three of its members join Team Canada, in addition to one of its club athletes.

The men’s roster includes UVic’s Mark Davies (Victoria, B.C.) and Adam Donaldson (Victoria, B.C.), Western’s Matthew Christie (Ottawa, Ont.) and Adam Rabalski (Guelph, Ont.), Toronto’s Jacob Giesbrecht (Wanfleet, Ont.) and Andre Vovk (Richmond Hill, Ont.), Brock’s Luke Gadsdon (Hamilton, Ont.) and Zachary Lewis (Ottawa, Ont.), Trent’s Graham Peeters (Omemee, Ont.) and Trevor Jones (Burleigh Falls, Ont.), McMaster’s Logan Madill (Collingwood, Ont.) and Carleton’s Hunter Amesbury (Burlington, Ont.).

The women’s team consists of Victoria’s Olivia King (Toronto, Ont.) and Rebecca Zimmerman (Toronto, Ont.), Western’s Marilyse Dubois (Laval, Que.), and Shannon Kennedy – who represents the Western Rowing Club – Carleton’s Anna Currie (Regina, Sask.), Ottawa’s Alanna Fogarty (Ottawa, Ont.), Calgary’s Helena Hlas (Winnipeg, Man.), McMaster’s D’arcy Arends (Utopia, Ont.) and Patricia Mara (Victoria, B.C.) of Camosun College.

Christie and Lewis return from the 2015 Universiade team, while Mara, who also competed at the Gwangju Games, will be making her fourth appearance for Canada at a FISU event, following the 2010 and 2014 world university championships.

Christie and Peteers have also both represented Canada as members of the national World U23 team in 2013 and 2015.

Victoria’s Rick Crawley, who guided the Vikes women to a second-place finish at last year’s national championship, will serve as team leader. Crawley has won 11 Canadian university titles and captured three gold medals as a coach at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics. His coaching staff includes Ottawa’s Kate Gorsline, Western’s Andrew Jago, McMaster’s Jake Thomasen and Toronto’s Iain Wilson.

At the 2014 world university championship, Canada reached the podium twice, earning silver in the men’s four and bronze in the men’s eight event.

“We have good representation from the Vikes men’s and women’s rowing programs at the FISU championships. Our Western contingent should give a good account of themselves and former Vike Trish Mara will lend an element of experience to the mix having won a bronze medal in this event in 2010,” said Crowley. “This event is a good stepping stone for future national team involvement (and) the level of competition will be very high.”

CANADIAN ROSTER

MEN

Name	University	Hometown	Event
Hunter Amesbury	Carleton	Burlington, Ont.	Coxless four
Matthew Christie	Western	Ottawa, Ont.	Lightweight single sculls
Mark Davies	Victoria	Victoria, C.B.	Double Sculls
Adam Donaldson	Victoria	Victoria, C.B.	Double Sculls
Luke Gadsdon	Brock	Hamilton, Ont.	Coxless four
Jacob Geisbrecht	Toronto	Wanfleet, Ont.	Double sculls
Trevor Jones	Trent	Burleigh Falls, Ont.	Coxless four
Zachary Lewis	Brock	Ottawa, Ont.	Lightweight double sculls
Logan Madill	McMaster	Collingwood, Ont.	Double sculls
Adam Rabalski	Western	Guelph, Ont.	Single sculls
Graham Peeters	Trent	Omemee, Ont.	Double sculls
Andre Vovk	Toronto	Richmond Hill, Ont.	Lightweight double sculls

WOMEN

Name	University	Hometown	Event
D’arcy Arends	McMaster	Utopia, Ont.	Coxless four
Anna Currie	Carleton	Regina, Sask.	Lightweight double sculls
Marilyse Dubois	Western	Laval, Que.	Coxless four
Alanna Fogarty	Ottawa	Ottawa, Ont.	Lightweight double sculls
Helena Hlas	Calgary	Winnipeg, Man.	Double sculls
Patricia Mara	Camosun College	Victoria, B.C.	Lightweight single sculls
Olivia King	Victoria	Toronto, Ont.	Coxless four
Shannon Kennedy	Western	Toronto, Ont.	Double sculls
Rebecca Zimmerman	Victoria	Toronto, Ont.	Coxless four

Team Leader: Rick Crowley (University of Victoria)

Coaches: Kate Gorsline (University of Ottawa), Andrew Jago (Western University), Jake Thomasen (McMaster University), Iain Wilson (University of Toronto)

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