National Adaptive Team

In 2005, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced that rowing has been accepted as a new sport on the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games program. Rowing Canada Aviron sent its first National Adaptive Team to the World Championships in 2004. This section is dedicated to updates on the National Adaptive Team, for general info on the growing sport of adaptive rowing, see our adaptive section of Rowing Programs.

Updates and Adaptive Team Notices:

• The new lead coach for the adaptive program is Jeff Dunbrack.  Please contact Jeff for more information.

2010

• Link to article on NART Training Camp in St Catharines, Ont.
• Adaptive Selection Camp, July 3-11 Welland, Ont. Adaptive Team Crews will be nominated on the basis of performance at a selection camp. The selection camp for LTA4+ Mixed Gender, TA2x Mixed Gender, A1x Male and A1x Female shall commence on or about July 3, 2010 (Welland, Ontario). Nominations for the National Adaptive Team shall be made no later than August 30, 2010.
  The selection and development camp will be held under the supervision of the Lead Coach. The Selection camp will be by invitation only. Athletes wishing to be considered for the adaptive team must submit their request with their latest May 10th ergometer score to the National Team Manger parfitt@rowingcanada.org by June 7, 2010. Invitations to the selection camp will be made by the Lead Coach-Adaptive by June 14, 2010. The applicants will be evaluated by their submitted erg scores by a committee and then will be notified of their invitation.
  Please contact Jeff Dunbrack jdunbrack@rowingcanada.org if you have any questions.
• Important: 2010 National Adaptive Selection document (pdf)

2008 and 2009

• 2009 National Adaptive Team Camp (pdf)
• Jan. 2009: NART carded athlete list updated for 2009 (pdf)
• Sept. 09 to 11, 2008: Paralympic regatta final day summary . More info on www.worldrowing.com
• June 28 to 29: Canada's adaptive team will be competing at the US Nationals - results here.
• Rowing Canada's Nominations for the 2008 Paralympic Team (pdf)
• Athlete invitee list for the upcoming (June) training camp in London, ON
• April training camp, London, Ontario: Invitee List
• NART 2008 LTA Training Camp List
• Web site for Supporters of Canadian Paralympians developed by the Canada Paralympic Committee
• 2008 NART Coaching Announcements
• 2008 NART Training Camp Announcement
• Carded athete list for 2008
• National Adaptive Rowing Team (NART) – 2008 AAP Nomination List
• NART Advisory Terms of Reference (revised October 2007)
  
• New information on the NART Erg Monitoring Program - 2007-2008.
• Congratulations to the 2007 Coxed Four (shown here) - bronze medalists at the World Championships in Munich, Germany. All four adaptive crews qualified for the Paralympics next year. See the Worlds' page for full National Team reports . Click here for news from FISA a year out of the 2008 Games.
• Carding Criteria for Adaptive Athletes (pdf)

2006 and 2007

• Mar. 20, 2007: Official list of Adaptive Carded Athetes
• Mar. 2007 - NART 2007 Athlete Agreement (pdf)
• 2007 RCA Selection Document can be downloaded from the "info for athletes" section.
• An update on some of our award-winning adaptive athletes .
• Canada's Courtney Pollock has been named a FISA Classifier (Medical). For more on FISA's adaptive classifications, download its guidelines .
• Final Results - 2006 Worlds in Eton
• 2006 Worlds Adaptive Heats Summary
• 2006 Adaptive National Team Athlete Bios
• 2006 National Adaptive Standards (pdf)

For more on adaptive rowing in general, see our adaptive section.