The Burnaby Rowing Club is beaming these days.
With the Rio Olympics quickly approaching and summer heat reaching a peak locally, the club is seeing plenty of its younger athletes make the most of their diligent training regimes.
This week, four rowers were selected to Rowing Canada Aviron’s lineup for the upcoming World Rowing championships in the Netherlands.
The achievement is special for Layla Balooch, Ellen Gleadow, Taylor Hardy and Vlad Timinsky, who will pull on the red-and-white for the Aug. 21 to 28 competition in Rotterdam. It follows in the glow of some big expectations for the Canadian rowing program in Rio.
Balooch, Gleadow and Timinsky were chosen as part of the Canadian under-23 team, while Hardy is a member of the non-Olympic senior men’s squad.
Balooch, a Burnaby North alumna who trains and studies at the University of Victoria, competes in the women’s single sculls, while Gleadow, a recent graduate of the University of Notre Dame, was named to the lightweight pair double scull, alongside Ontario’s Jennifer Casson.
Timinsky joins fellow B.C. rowers Patrick Keane and Aaron Lattimer, alongside Ontario’s Alex Watson, in the men’s lightweight quadruple sculls.
Hardy will compete in the senior men’s lightweight quadruple sculls.
