Alberta Summer Games Slalom Results

Well done to all the zone Coaches for bringing such high quality paddling to ASG! This was the best river ASG has seen, yet all the athletes took it in stride and succeeded tremendously. It was awesome to see so many athletes doubling and tripling in K1, C1, C2.

Saidy Coyne having fun in C1W Cadet

Cole Gerber

The dominant family!

Thank you to all the volunteers from ASCK, ACPA, AWA, Pincher Creek and Lethbridge for making three long days of racing a success.

Emil doing his Usain Bolt impression!

Full Results can be found here:
Slalom -  https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bw_BLM7FVcUoS2w4NzNVeUM0VjA
DR - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bw_BLM7FVcUoc3dhMjBBV0lBaTA

Alberta Cup #3 'Nationals' Rapid, Red Deer River

We had an epic and great slalom race on the 'Nationals' rapid on the Red Deer River July 22nd. Huge respect to everyone who raced on the big water. With the other option for racing for the weekend being Minden, we had to set some tough moves. The resulting course was easily good enough for an international race and would test the best.

40 years ago the National Championships were held in Alberta for the first time and the race was on this site. This race was therefore the 40th Anniversary Race for the the AWA. Much has changed in this time, both on and off the water, but what remains the same is everyone's desire to be outdoors, pushing their limits.

Thank you to all the people who put up and took down the course, and to the timers and judges! Without you we would be able to have such great events!

Check out Paul Manning-Hunter making it look easy on his last run -

Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_BLM7FVcUodG9fSW95NjdUd1dVeHQzd3MxbUtlOXc

Adrian Cole Productions video - Thanks TECK!

Teck from Adrian Cole on Vimeo.

Alberta Cup #3 - Sundre, Alberta

Registration at:
https://zone4.ca/register.asp?id=3072&restartreg=9b339ba2d866db54d54fd9f779c5fb85

Junior & U23 Worlds - Wausau, Wisconsin

It was a hot 2 weeks in Wausau. With only 6 days of training before the World Championships, every opportunity to prepare for the event was taken. Canada had 5 coaches looking after 19 athletes, the largest slalom team Canada has ever fielded to any event. From the outset we looked to have a pretty stacked team with World Championship veterans like Ben Hayward, Cam Smedley, Ally Mcgee, Haley Daniels & Thea Froelich. Some of our other top paddlers, with previous results and hopes of the Nation, were Jazmyn Denhollander and Liam Smedley.

Representing Alberta were Ben & Haley, previous Jr Team member Adrian Cole, and the dynamic K1 duo of Ryley Penner and Levi Severtson.

5 days of racing proved to be a bit of a marathon for the coaches (Day 1, Mike walked over 12km acording to his GPS), but it allowed the athletes to have lots of rest and ensure they were in peak performance for each run.

Ben (U23 K1M), Haley (U23 C1W) and Ryley (Jr K1M) all qualified for the Semi-Final day on Friday. Ben and Haley both made it through to the Finals, Ben with a 3rd place finish in the Semi-Final. Expecations were high leading up to the Finals. While no hardware was collected Ben and Haley finished 6th and 8th respectively!

Other top results included Ally McGee (U23 C1W) in 7th and Jazmyn Denhollander in 8th in K1W Junior. Ryley Penner finished 30th, with two more years on the Junior Team & Levi Severtson finished 44th in his final Junior Worlds (looking to step up to U23 Team next year!)

A huge shout out to TECK for helping support the Alberta Team athletes with travel expenses!