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WAVERLEY:<\/strong> Four athletes from Cheema have been named to the Canadian team that will compete in the Czech Republic at the ICF Sprint World Cup, scheduled for May 20-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sloan MacKenzie of Windsor Junction; Michelle Russell of Fall River; Craig Spence of Dartmouth; and Riley Melanson were named following National Team Trials, held May 2-5 on Lake Banook in Dartmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All four train out of and are proud members of Waverley-based Cheema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”161″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than <\/strong>100 sprint paddlers from across Canada competed in the first set of National Team Trials last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lake Banook also serves as a home base for three Atlantic Division Canoe Kayak Clubs – Banook Canoe Club, Mic Mac Amateur Aquatic Club and Senobe Aquatic Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trials, hosted by the Atlantic Division of Canoe Kayak Canada (ADCKC), served as a selection regatta for the ICF Sprint World Cup Racice, ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup and Para World Cup Poznan events being held later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTeam Trials on Lake Banook were a fantastic way to kick of our competitive Sprint Racing season with races on the course which will host the World in August,\u201d said Chief Technical Officer, Ian Mortimer, in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs we begin the push to Paris it was very promising to see strong paddling from new and veteran senior athletes within our team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”162″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eight Olympic and Paralympic paddlers from Tokyo were selected to the team, including 2020 Olympic bronze medallist Katie Vincent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was really nice to start off the season last week on Lake Banook,\u201d said Vincent. \u201cThough it was a lot colder than Tokyo, there was a lot of world-class paddling coming from our team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was an excellent start to our road to Paris and I am looking forward to the World Championships coming to Dartmouth this August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be incredible to have the support of our local paddling community cheering for us this summer on Canadian waters. I get chills just thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup circuit begins on May 20-22 in Racice, Czech Republic followed by ICF Para Canoe and Canoe Sprint World Cup in Poznan, Poland from May 26-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”156″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”164″] WAVERLEY: Four athletes from Cheema have been named to the Canadian team that will compete in the Czech Republic at the ICF Sprint World Cup, scheduled for May 20-22. Sloan MacKenzie of Windsor Junction; Michelle Russell of Fall River; Craig Spence of Dartmouth; and Riley Melanson were named following National Team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[400,737,2,403,2725,739,545,16],"class_list":["post-28477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cheema","tag-craig-spence","tag-fall-river","tag-michelle-russell","tag-riley-melanson","tag-sloan-mackenzie","tag-team-canada","tag-waverley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}