2010

June - Nanaimo Rowers Bring Home Medals

Seven Nanaimo rowers brought home medals from the 65th annual Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association regatta held in St. Catharines, ON from June 4-6.  Rowers Evan Earp-Jones and Daniel Cameron are current Nanaimo Rowing Club members and were representing Dover Bay Secondary at the regatta.  They were accompanied by Nanaimo coach, Craig Rutherford.  Past Nanaimo Rowing Club members included Martin Barakso, Andrew Crowley, Evan Marback and Connor McGuigan representing Brentwood College School in Mill Bay and Arden Gill representing Shawnigan Lake School.

Earp-Jones and Cameron brought home silver in the Senior Mens Pair event with a time of 7:19.32, 5.26 seconds out of first place.  They also competed in the Senior Mens doubles but were knocked out in the semi-finals.

Barakso brought home gold in the Junior Mens Single with a winning time of 7:49.33, 10 seconds ahead of second place.  Along with Crowley, Marback, and McGuigan, he also won silver in the Senior Mens Eight.  Crowley, Marback and McGuigan added to the medal count with a bronze in the Senior Mens Four.

Gill collected gold in the Senior Womens Double and bronze in the Senior Womens Quad.

These same rowers also competed in the Rowing Canada Junior National Team trials on June 7-8 in Welland, ON.  The trials featured the largest number of entries ever for a Canadian junior trials with more than 100 athletes. Rowers were competing for a spot on the team going to the Junior World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic in early August and the CanAmMex junior regatta in the U.S. this summer. More information on the team structure will be announced later this week.

Once again the Nanaimo rowers had some impressive results despite some weather challenges on the first day. Barakso was second in the A final of the Mens Single race and Gill was first in the B final of the Womens Single race.  The remainder of the Nanaimo rowers competed in the Mens Pair race.  Marback and McGuigan were fourth in the A final, Crowley and partner Ben Coull were 5th in the A final and Earp-Jones and Cameron were fifth in the B final.  Earp-Jones and Cameron were in fifth place out of 16 pairs after the time trials but couldn't compete with the wind in the semi-finals.

February 28 - Head of Shawnigan
Congratulations to Evan Earp-Jones on his 3rd place finish in the Men's single.

2009

April 24/25/26 - Brentwood International High School Regatta

April 21 - in the Nanaimo Daily News - Tony Theriault, our Paralympian!  Check out the answer to Tony's 5 questions.

April 18 - Quamichan Lake regatta hosted by the Maple Bay Rowing Club.  We had some awesome results:

March 27/28 - 9th Annual NRC rowathon @ Woodgrove Mall.  Ran from 5 pm on Friday until 5 pm on Saturday.
Rowathon:  the final tally is not yet in but it looks like we had fewer rowers participating and probably less money raised.  We will have to do better next time...  A special thanks to the coaches, Don, Alex, Kelly and Craig.  English John - awesome job --> 16.5 shifts which amounts to 5.5 hours on the erg!!  A couple of others did 10 and 12 shifts each.  A few photos have been posted.

February - Congratulations to Tony Theriault on winning Male Athlete of the Year at the PacificSport Sport Achievement Awards!!

January - local rowers have been nominated for the Pacificsport Sport Achievement Awards.  Olympian Tony Theriault has been nominated for Male Athlete of the Year.  Tony participated in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing as part of the Canadian LTA quad.  Junior rowers, Andrew Crowley, Evan Earp-Jones, Evan Marback and Connor McGuigan, have been nominated for Partners of the Year.  The boys did extremely well this summer, placing 3rd in the junior B quad at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in St. Catharines, ON.  The awards will be handed out on February 7.

2008

May 10-11 - Shawnigan Lake Regatta.  Still waiting for results.

April 25-27 - Brentwood Regatta.  Click here for the results.

February 3 - Monster Erg results.  Several Nanaimo rowers were entered in this event.  Great job Andrew and Connor.  Congratulations also to Nanaimo alumni, Liam and Jason.

October 25 - Head of Gorge results

October 26 - Head of Elk results

2007

November 24 - Beer and burger fundraiser.  Thanks for your support everyone.  We raised $1,700 from the beer and burger/silent auction.  Thanks to all the families and friends that contributed to our success.  A special thanks goes out to Holly Best for getting things organized, and to the Foundry Pub, Chapman Motors, Lordco, the Nanaimo Clippers, SalsaMan Fresh Salsa and Wine Works for their contributions.