Training camp paves way for Junior team campaign

Thursday 7 May 2009

The Australian Junior Rowing Team is currently participating in their first camp of the 2009 international season out of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. Five crews were selected to compete at the 2009 World Junior World Championships later this year, with four of these crews participating in a camp this week and the women’s quad scull beginning their camp on Monday May 11.

Selected along with the women’s quad scull is a men’s coxed four, a men’s and women’s coxless four and a men’s quad scull. Three members of the team were also part of the 2008 Australian Junior Team and Maddie Edmunds (QLD), Anna Kaszycki (NSW) and Alexandra Hagan all aiming to improve on their performances from last year.

The training camp in Canberra commenced last Saturday and will conclude on Sunday May 10, with the athletes to be placed through rigorous on water sessions, education sessions and technical reviews.

Rowing Australia Elite Development Manager Peter Shakespear says that the camp will provide an important building block for their development.

“We are really happy with the progress that all these junior athletes have been making,” Shakespear said. “The camp will provide us with the opportunity to further develop their growing skill levels and groom them for the international tour.”

The 2009 World Junior Rowing Championships are being held in Brive-le-Gaillarde, France, 5-8 August.

The team will convene for a second camp at the end of June, ahead of a departure camp at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in late July.

For more information please call David Polglase on 0401 453 041

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