Making a dream come true - Nicole's Summer

Here is Nicole's report about her summer of training/racing - she has kept herself quite busy and it has paid off:


"I have been in Rideau training this summer, and have had an exciting and successful racing season so far. It started with National Team Trials #1 in May, which showed me what a hard winter of training can do ;) After trials I continued to train hard in C1 and in C2 with Katie Findlay. My next regatta was Canada Day at Rideau, where I got the chance to race in 2 Rideau war canoes! Then we were off to Lake Placid as a warm-up for trials #3. Two weeks later in Montreal I had one of the best races of my life, doing a 2:14.440 500m. That qualified me to race for CANADA at the 2009 Senior World Championships in Dartmouth August 12-16. I will be heading to Halifax next Wednesday to participate in the International Development camp for women's canoe, and then will race the C1 500m. at Worlds. The rest of the summer will see me competing at the Canada Games and then Nationals - I think I will really appreciate the September break! Then it will be back to SFU and training at Burnaby Lake :)"