KAMLOOPS – Nick Hamilton, in his last year of studies in the Natural Resource Science program at TRU, is heading east to compete alongside the major university rowing athletes in Canada at the Canadian University
Championship Regatta to be held in St. Catharines, Ontario, Nov. 1.

All students competing in this event have to be full time students at their university, and Hamilton certainly qualifies. The 24-year-old is carrying a six-course load and also training at the Kamloops Rowing Club(KRC).

Hamilton, who has been rowing since high school with the Vernon Rowing Club, has been rowing at the Kamloops Rowing Club at Shumway Lake for the past four years.

“Nick has ambitions to possibly try out for the Canadian National Rowing Team and this regatta is one of the recognized steps that brings him closer to that goal,” said TRU respiratory therapy faculty member and rowing coach Janine Chan, who went on to explain that “TRU’s rowing program has been in existence since 2003 when an ex-national team rower, Graeme Hill and I teamed up to develop and coach the new recreational sport offered at the university.”

Since then, the crew size has grown to an experienced and novice university crew that totalled 15 rowers this past season. The Kamloops Rowing Club also runs a high school rowing program that saw nine rowers on the water this past season.

The rowing season begins in May and has just ended with representation from TRU crew /SKSS crew /KRC Master rowers crew at the Head of the Gorge and the Head of the Elk in Victoria this past weekend.

Those interested in further information about the rowing program at TRU or programs offered at the Kamloops Rowing Club for 2007 can call 828-2110 and leave their name/number and a club member will contact them
shortly

For more information, please contact Janine Chan at 371-5543 or by email.