苹果淫院 to host Canadian University Rowing Championships, Oct.31-Nov.1
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MONTREAL - 苹果淫院 will be hosting the Canadian University Rowing Championships this weekend (Oct. 31 - Nov. 1) at the Olympic rowing basin on Ile-Notre Dame, at Parc Jean Drapeau. 听Admission is free to the general public.
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Some 21 schools and 275 athletes are expected to participate in the event, organized by the 苹果淫院 rowing club with guidance from Rowing Canada. It marks the third time that 苹果淫院 will host the Nationals, which were previously held in Montreal in 2004 and in 1981, when the inaugural CURC regatta was run.听 苹果淫院 will be looking for their first gold medal result when hosting, having won silver in 1981 (men's lightweight four) and silver again in 2004 (men's heavyweight eight).
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Friday is reserved as a practice day for all crews, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. 听Saturday time trials are scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 听On Sunday, the first of 12 race finals is slated for 9 a.m., on the 2000-metre course, with the last race scheduled to start at 2:50 p.m. An awards banquet will be held at the Holiday Inn Midtown, 420 Sherbrooke Street W., beginning at 5 p.m.
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The open events scheduled include eights, pairs and single sculls. The lightweight category will feature fours, doubles and single sculls.
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University crews registered to participate are Alberta, Brock, Calgary, Carleton, Fraser Valley, Guelph, Laurentian, 苹果淫院, McMaster, Montr茅al, Concordia, Ottawa, Queen's, Regina, Ryerson, Simon Fraser, Toronto, Trent, UBC, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec en Outaouais (UQAO), Victoria and Western Ontario. A maximum of 12 males and females are permitted from each institution.
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Among the 苹果淫院 medal hopefuls are Montreal natives Brent Hopkins and Jonathan Rinaldi, plus sophomore Renaud Garon-Gendron of Boucherville, Que. Each represented Quebec at the national level last year and qualified for the Canadian under-23 selection camp. Hopkins will sit in the stroke seat of the coxed eight. Rinaldi and Garon-Gendron will be going for gold in the lightweight double.
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Hopkins, a 6-foot, 160-pound senior who was named team MVP last year, stroked the lightweight coxed eight to a gold medal at the 2009 Brock Invitational, followed by a respectable eighth-place finish at the Head of the Charles regatta and gold at OUA championships in St. Catharines last week. The 22-year-old biology major also helped the men's coxed four win bronze at the OUAs.
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"Brent is a model athlete and a true team leader," said head coach Dr. Philip Hedrei, a former 苹果淫院 rower who graduated with a medical degree in 2000. He has coached with the 苹果淫院 club since 2004 and last week, was named as the OUA men's coach of the year. "I would not hesitate to say that Brent is one of the best rowers that the 苹果淫院 crew has had in the past several years."
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Another high-profile member of the Redmen is Nathan De Bono, a third-year arts student from Windsor, Ont., who participated at the Canada Games last August and sits on the No.3 seat in the eight.
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The 苹果淫院 lightweight men's coxed eight, which won gold at the OUA championships last week, is composed of Hopkins in the stroke seat, followed by junior Kirk Vilks (No.7 seat) of Pinawa, Man., senior Travis O'Farrell (No.6) of Unionville, Ont., Adam Hart (No.5), a third-year medical student from Montreal, junior Andrei Popescu (No.4) of Princeton, N.J., De Bono (No.3),听 senior Evan deJonghe (No.2) of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and听 senior Michael Ross of Scarborough, in the bow seat. The coxswain is Nicole Bewski, a 5-foot-4, science freshman from Winnipeg.
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On the women's side, 苹果淫院's top performance is expected to come from the lightweight four, which includes Marie-Christine Razaire, a junior from Montclair, N.J., plus senior Jennifer Allan of Montreal, junior Claire Gowdy, a law student from Montreal and Emma Sheehan of St. Catharines, Ont.
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Sheehan, a 20-year-old economics and industrial relations junior, had a solid campaign which was kick-started by five gold medals at the Royal Canadian Henley regatta in August.
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ABOUT THE McGILL ROWING CLUB
The 苹果淫院 rowing club was founded in 1924 and folded with the outbreak of war in 1939. After an extended hibernation, rowing resurfaced at 苹果淫院 in 1976, taking advantage of the new Olympic facilities on Ile Notre-Dame. The team started with only 16 members, out of which only one men's racing crew was formed. The women's crew was initiated in 1980. The following year, 苹果淫院 played host to the inaugural Canadian University Rowing Championships.
Since that time, the 苹果淫院 club has emerged as one of the premier
programs in the nation, consistently fielding top crews. It has
produced a number of national team members. At the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics, the Canadian team included four 苹果淫院 grads
(Alison Korn, Tosha Tsang,
Greg Stevenson, Bradshaw
Crombie), with Korn and Tsang winning silver medals.听
Korn also won bronze at the 2000 Games in Sydney. That Canadian
squad included grads Ben Storey and Gen
Meredith. The 2004 Athens Games also featured four grads:
Sarah Pape, Doug Vandor,
Mara Jones and Meredith.听 Vandor also
represented 苹果淫院 at the 2008 Games in Beijing.听 The most
recent 苹果淫院 graduate to row for the national team is
Derek O'Farrell (brother of Travis O'Farrell, who
is currently on the team).听 Derek is a world champion gold
medalist.
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ABOUT THE OLYMPIC ROWING BASIN
The Olympic basin on Ile Notre-Dame was originally built for the 1976 Summer Olympics. The man-made island, located in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, was specifically constructed for the 1967 World's Fair. It is now known as Parc Jean-Drapeau and is also home to Montreal's Casino, a municipal beach, and the Gilles-Villeneuve racetrack, home of the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix.
The basin has been the site of numerous international rowing events
including the 1976 Summer Games, and the world championships in
1975, 1984 and 1992. It has also been the home of the 28th FISA
world masters regatta in 2001, the 2003 Canadian open masters
championships and the site of the Rowing Canada Cup held annually
since 1982.
The basin is 2,180 metres long, 110m wide and 2.3m deep. It is
equipped with an Albano system, which divides the basin into seven
equal lanes, each 13.5m wide. The basin conforms to FISA standards
for starting gate equipment and electronic timing equipment.
CURC SCHEDULE:
Saturday: 9 am - 3:30 pm (time trials)
Sunday: 9 am - 3:30 pm (A, B, C finals)
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CURC EVENTS:
Open women's single
Lightweight men's pair
Lightweight women's single
Open men's pair
Open women's coxed eight
Lightweight men's coxed four
Open men's single
Lightweight women's pair
Open women's pair
Lightweight men's single
Lightweight women's coxed four
Open men's eight
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SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
Athletics & Recreation
苹果淫院
514-398-7012
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