Following are the winners and locals who placed in the top 10 at Saturday’s Ontario Ergometer Championships at Ridley College: Junior high school men: 1. Lucas Maroney, South Niagara (6:32.5);...
Early mornings are nothing new for Brock rower Stephen Harris. But last Saturday came earlier than normal for the 20-year-old Guelph native, who got up at 3 a.m. to complete...
Denis Morris rower and St. Catharines Rowing Club member Cait Whittard won the junior women's single at the recent National Rowing Championships. Kevin Light photo. Cait Whittard has had a...
Payton Gauthier won the junior men’s single at the recent National Rowing Championships in Victoria, B.C. Photos by Kevin Light. Payton Gauthier continues to be a trailblazer for the Niagara...
Two weekends ago, St. Catharines Rowing Club member Giancarlo DiPompeo made a triumphant return to the local rowing scene. Competing for the University of Victoria at the South Niagara Rowing...
It was decision time this week for Denis Morris rower Cait Whittard. The 17-year-old St. Catharines resident had four NCAA Division 1 rowing scholarships to choose from and Wednesday she...
Brock's Thomas Markewich and Stephen Harris compete in the men's lightweight double race at the Canadian University Rowing Championships. Photo by Jayson Childs. The Brock rowing team garnered a pair...
Brock’s men’s rowing team won five of 10 races last Saturday in Welland to rule the waters at the Ontario University Athletics championships. The men also won three silvers and...
Competing in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics was an emotional time for St. Catharines coxswain Laura Court. “I think I teared up almost every day but not in a sad way,”...
Even during a COVID-19 pandemic, athletes can find a silver lining. Payton Gauthier, a 17-year-old Niagara Falls resident, managed to do just that in his rowing career. “At first, I...
Giancarlo DiPompeo knew he was up against it this summer trying to earn a spot on the Canadian team heading to the World Rowing Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, from...
Kristen Kit was greeted Saturday at the airport by her parents, Jerry and Janice Less than 48 hours after winning a gold medal in the women’s eight at the Tokyo...
With on-the-water rowing mostly halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Rowing Canada had to take a different approach to choosing the athletes it would send to the World Rowing Junior Championships...
Meredith Hillmayer celebrated her inclusion on Rowing Canada’s CanAmMex roster in enemy territory. Since early May, the Grade 12B student at E.L. Crossley Secondary School has been training with the...
It is going to be a hectic August for Teagan Orth. The recent graduate of St. Francis will be representing Canada in the women’s quad at the World Rowing Junior...
Lucas Maroney is taking full advantage of an early start in rowing. Introduced to the sport by his father, Evan Maroney, and grandfather, Edward Maroney, the 15-year-old Welland resident started...
If anyone was due for a stretch of good fortune it was Steven Rosts. After completing his freshman year at the University of Washington by stroking the school’s third varsity...
Morgan Rosts is heading to the Tokyo Olympics as the spare for Canada’s heavyweight rowing team. Photos by KEVIN LIGHT. Last Wednesday night was a momentous occasion for Morgan Rosts....
Brock rower Sam Stewart will represent Canada at the under-23 world championships. Photo by KEVIN LIGHT. Sam Stewart’s meteoric rise up the rowing ranks has continued in 2021 with the...
Brock's Thomas Markewich will represent Canada at the under-23 world rowing championships. Action photos by Kevin Light. Like many rowers in Canada last year, Thomas Markewich saw his rowing dreams...
Kristen Kit will cox Canada's women's eight at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo by Merijn Soeters. Despite the internal selection process having been completed for about two weeks, Kristen Kit was taking...
Cait Whittard continues to enhance her scholarship rowing resume. The Grade 11 student at Denis Morris was recently named to Canada’s squad for the CanAmMex regatta, a developmental regatta featuring...
Governor Simcoe grad and Ridley Graduate Boat Club member Morgan Rosts has been named as an alternate for Canada’s Olympic rowing team. Canada’s rowing team at this summer’s Tokyo Olympics...
It came as no surprise when the Canadian Henley Rowing Corporation announced the cancellation of this year's Henley regatta. “We have been talking about this since January hoping that we...
Should I stay or should I go? That was the dilemma facing 18-year-old Welland resident Gillian Jansen as she contemplated where she would pursue her post-secondary academic and rowing career....
For the second straight spring, the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association championships have fallen victim to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, it was announced the 75th Annual Championship Regatta and...
Present and future Brock University rowers performed well at the Canadian Indoor Rowing Championships. “It can be tough to compete without your teammates there to cheer you on and trying...
Wernher Verbraeken had no idea he was in contention for an award from Rowing Canada Aviron. The 52-year-old native of the Netherlands is well known in local rowing circles, helping...
St. Catharines Sports Hall of Famer Clint Page passed away on Jan. 10. Photos by Renata Hodges. The rowing community is mourning the loss of a long-time official, fundraiser extraordinaire...
No one needs to tell St. Francis basketball coach Jon Marcheterre how hard David Picard works. “He is a throwback, hardworking, honest, shake your hand and look you in the...
