STRATFORD-upon-Avon Boat Club are searching for young athletes to join British Rowing’s Paralympic pathway programme.
The Great Britain squad need athletes to compete in the PR1 and PR2 fixed seat categories.
This includes athletes with spinal cord injuries and other impairments affecting the legs and/or the lower spine.
Stratford are interested in all impaired athletes with the club used as a nursery for GB para talent for several years.
Stratford para rower Curtis Dickens now competes for Great Britain.
He represented his country at the World Rowing Cup despite only taking up the sport two years ago.
Dickens is currently on the GB pathway to compete at the Los Angeles Paralympic Games in 2028.
Stratford’s adaptive squad formed 10 years ago with just two rowers.
The club’s adaptive squad now boasts 20 athletes and a large team of coaches and volunteers.
And Stratford won the UK’s parasport club of the year award in 2020.
Stratford’s head adaptive coach, Mark Dewdney said: “Everything is in place we just need some more committed athletes.
“Top level rowing is not for the faint-hearted and if you want to reach the Paralympics, it requires long term 100 per cent effort.”
Anyone interested in trying para rowing should contact Dewdney by visiting: www.stratford-rowing.co.uk/contact and marking the subject box ‘adaptive’.
