CORA Rowing Championships , bring home 3 more gold, 4 silver for Silver Lake

The Silver Lake Rowing  continued to have success at the Central Ontario Rowing Championships in St. Catharines on the weekend.

Crews raced in their standard categories, with good consistent performances like our under 17 mens quad,  the under 17 single, and under 23 mens double; while some athletes  were challenged to the next level by  rowing up in weight class and/or age class and  others had to compete against our junior national development team members that are currently preparing to compete at CanAmMex games in Oklahoma.

Our under 19 girls four and girls pair had great rows against these junior national development team members and had excellent results in the field of 7 boats placing a very tight 4th in the fours (Charlie Hollander coxing Samy Fairley, Hannah Anderson, Kristina Frazer and Chaundra Manorome) and placing 2nd (Hannah Anderson and Samy Fairley)  and 4th (Kelsea Parker, Chaundra Manorome)  in the pairs event.

In their pair race, Samy and Hannah actually beat out one of the girls pairs that made the CanAmMex team that will be rowing in Oklahoma.

Fairely also teamed up with Anna Ardiel (back from University of Louisville where she is on a rowing scholarship) and they placed 2nd for silver in the under 23 double.  Anna also won gold in the under 23 single.

Showing grit and determination to race well Caleb McCleary along with Travis Belanger finished 4th in the under 17 mens double even after Caleb knew he had an injury.  The medic did not clear Caleb to row his 2nd race so showing great team spirit Zac Azzopardi stepped up to the plate right after his quad race and filled in for Caleb  so that Travis would not be denied his second race. Travis and Zac placed 5th in the under 19 mens double.

Gold, silver and bronze were awarded at the championships.

Winning gold were the following crews:

Under 17 single: Kristina Frazer

Under 19 womens double: Kristina Frazer, Chaundra Manorome

Under 23 single: Anna Ardiel 

Winning Silver were:

Under 17 mens quad: Scott Fariley, John Veltri, Zac Azzopardi, Marcus Snow

Under 19 womens pair: Hannah Anderson, Samy Fairley

Under 23 women double: Anna  Ardiel , Samy Fairley

Under 23 mens double: Robbie Puddy, Terry Lovegrove

Placing 4th:

Under 17 mens double : Caleb McCleary, Travis Belanger

Under 19 womens single: Chaundra Manorome

Under 19 women's pair: Chaundra Manorome, Kelsea Parker

Under 19 Womens four: Charlie Hollander Cox), Samy Fairley, Hannah Anderson, Kristina Frazer, Chaudnra Manorome

Under 23 mens double: Tyler Wilson, Mike Veltri (our lightweight team that rowed heavy due to their lightweight race time conflict with the quad)

Under 23 Mens Quad: Robbie Puddy, Tyler Wilson, Mike Veltri, Terry Lovegrove

Four other crews placed 5th and 6th.

Coach Sue Fairley and Silver Lake  Rowing club athletes  would like to congratulate Ian Edwards on making the junior national development team and wish him well in Oklahoma at the end of July.  Ian will be rowing for London for the balance of the summer  where he will train and compete with a fellow junior national team-mate.

The next regatta will be the St Catharines Invitational back on Martindale Pond in St. Catharines next Saturday This regatta is  is known as the "preview to Henley" and helps prepare crews for the upcoming provincial championships that take place July 26/27 in addition to the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta.

attached is the SLRC 2008 club team picture: back row: Robbie Puddy, Travis Belanger, Zac Azzopardi, Kelsea Parker, Kristina Frazer, Marcus Snow, Mike Veltri, Ross Fairley, Anna Ardiel, Scott Fairley, Caleb McCleary (behind Scott), Terry Lovegrove

front row: Tyler Wilson, Samy Fairley, Chaundra Maonrome, John Veltri, Charlie Hollander, Hannah Anderson, coach Sue Fairley

absent: Ian Edwards, Chantelle LeMoine (Away from CORA  helping with Row for Heart regatta at Silver Lake)