Ashlyn Fehr has made a meteoric rise in the sport of rowing. The Grade 12 student at Saint Michael joined a learn to row program in the summer before starting...
Sabrina Cottringer’s foray into the world of rowing took place behind a computer screen rather than on the water. The Niagara Falls had just started Grade 9 at Saint Paul...
It has been a whirlwind 18 months for Blessed Trinity student Michael Gore. In April 2022, the 12B student was among more 1,500 athletes who took part in RBC Training...
The world is coming to St. Catharines for the third time. On Thursday at the Neil Campbell Rowing Centre on Henley Island, a flag ceremony was held to begin the...
Early on, it wasn’t smooth sailing for the E.L. Crossley senior men’s eight. “It was really rough at the start,” crew member Aidan Smouter said Sunday, after he teamed with...
Matthew Winslade and Val Hudson made history at the 76th Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association Regatta Sunday on Henley Island. The 18-year-old, Grade 12 students captured gold in the men’s...
Following are local crews that medaled Sunday at the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association Regatta. GOLD Event 1: Women’s junior lightweight 59-kilogram coxed four: E.L. Crossley (Evelyn Stacey, Keira Smith,...
Ridley College’s championship boat in the CSSRA senior women’s pair was anything but an overnight sensation. “We did a really good job of working together and finding our rhythm. It...
What a difference a year made for Ingrid Eshuis. In 2022, the Grade 12 student at Eden placed last in the final of the senior women’s single at the Canadian...
Malarie Jones checked off all the boxes Saturday at the Ontario Indoor Rowing Championships at Ridley College. “It’s the Ontarios so you want to go out there and do your...
Barbara Armbrust’s experience of winning a silver medal in the women’s coxed four at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was topped by the event’s opening ceremonies. “Walking in...
Ella Woodcock is one of the busiest teenagers around. The Grade 12 student at Notre Dame Welland schedule includes training with both the Notre Dame Rowing Club and the Brock...
Stella Bittman’s passion for rowing runs deep. The Grade 12 student at Notre Dame was initially a basketball player but switched her focus over to rowing when she entered Grade...
A summer of success on the water paid off in a big way Wednesday for Notre Dame’s Madeson Scott. Prior to flying out to British Columbia to compete in the...
Payton Gauthier concluded his Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games experience with a pair of rowing gold medals around his neck. After winning gold in the eight Saturday, the 18-year-old Niagara...
The Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games were the perfect tonic for Virginia scholarship rower Teagan Orth. “It was a challenging year,” the 19-year-old St. Catharines native said. “There was a...
For the second time in the last two and half months, Lucas Maroney had a gold medal placed around his neck at the Henley Grandstand. In early June, he won...
Applying to and being accepted into the Ontario NextGen Performance Centre in Welland two years ago, was a pivotal moment in Madeson Scott’s rowing career. “They have given me all...
Based on her selection to Canada’s under-23 team for the world rowing championships, a spot on Team Ontario in the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games was Hailey Mercuri’s for the...
Owen Bartel is having the summer of a lifetime. The Eden graduate completed his high school rowing career with gold medals in the single and double at the Canadian Secondary...
It was the Sunday of the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association championships and the novice women's coxed quad final was crossing the finish line at the Henley grandstand. In third-place...
Lucas Maroney will represent Canada in the double at the upcoming junior worlds. BPSN Photo There will be a strong Niagara presence in Varese, Italy, later this month at the...
Crossley’s Shane Irvine, Preston Darling, Bassil DiLorenzo, Chris Irvine, Matt Jinks, Matthew Johnston, Owen Nicholls, Alessio Perco, Aidan Smouter won the final race of the day, the senior men’s eight...
Lucas Maroney comes by his rowing excellence honestly. “I have had rowing in my blood since my grandparents,” the Grade 10 Notre Dame student said Sunday, after winning the junior...
Cait Whittard ended her high school rowing career in style with a CSSRA gold medal Sunday morning. The Grade 12 student at Denis Morris recorded a decisive victory in the...
Two Notre Dame athletes found their way to the top of the podium twice Sunday at the 75th Annual Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association Championships on Henley Island. Stella Bittman...
Day 1 of the post-COVID-19 recovery of the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association championships began this Friday at Henley Island with the 75th annual staging of the regatta. “Some people...
Kristen Kit’s acceptance speech for being the co-winner of the 2021 St. Catharines Athlete of the Year Award along with Mohammed Ahmed was all about thanking those who made her...
Shane Keagan was at it again Saturday at the Ontario Ergometer Championships. The holder of back-to-back Ontario and Canadian ergometer crowns and a bronze medal at the 2021 world indoor...
Malarie Jones was up to the task Saturday afternoon at the Ontario Ergometer Championships at Ridley College. The 16-year-old Wainfleet resident put the pedal to the metal and won the...
