McGill Dominates Queens to claim Challenge Cup rowing competition

McGill Wins Challenge Cup rowing competition

On Saturday April 28th 2012, McGill University welcomes Queens University to its waters as we try to bring back home the Lorne Gales Challenge Cup. Similar to the better-known Yale-Harvard and Cambridge-Oxford boat race, McGill-Queens has become an annual event where the respective crews will race down a course in the pursuit of honor. Novice and varsity crews, men and women, will race one after the other first, in a 3 km duel, and then, a quick 500m sprint on the Lachine Canal.

Before the event, McGill is looking forward to hosting our friends from Kingston for a reception Friday at 5:30 for athletes and coaches.
The boatrace will follow the next morning.

Boats will launch every 45 minutes starting at 9hr00. They will row up the course and race 3 kilometers back. Immediately after, they will row down to the sprint start, race 500 meters, and then dock. Only one category can be on the water at the same time therefore once the first race is over and docked, the second will launch.

Tentative Schedule:
9:00 am Novice Women launch
9:20 am Start of the 3k
9:40 am Start of 500m sprint
9:45 am Novice Men launch
10:05 am Start of the 3k
10:25 am Start of 500m sprint
10:30 am Varsity Women launch
10:50 am Start of the 3k
11:10 am Start of 500m sprint
11:15 am Varsity Men launch
11:35 am Start of the 3k
11:55 am Start of 500m sprint

The regatta will be located at the corner of Chemin du Musee and Rue St. Patrick.
The entire race course can be followed by bikes.

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Coaches and Coxswains: Read this document and master the course!

How to Get There^^
By Metro (50 Minutes from McGill)
Go to Atwater Metro (Or Vendome)
Take the 90 WEST
Get off at George V
Walk down St-Joseph, past the Toyota
Turn left down Chemin de Musee
Walk over the bridge and you’ll see where the trailers are parked

Go to Lionel-Groulx Metro Station
Take the 191 WEST
Get off at George V
Follow the same directions as above

By Car (20 Minutes from McGill)
Take the 20 West
Then the 138 West
Exit 2 towards Lasalle
Turn Right on Clement
Straight onto Saint Patrick
Right on Chemin de Musee
You should see the trailers there

Also, if you’d like the high quality pictures from the event for download, send us an e-mail indicating which picture you’d like.

Great job to all our athletes that participated and see you next year at pERGatory 2013!

Relays:

• Brebeuf Equipe 1 (1:36.5) def Medevil Teddy Bears (1:41.0)
• The Sterling Archers (1:28.0) def Montreal Girls (1:44.5)
• Mighty Masters (1:44.5) def McGill Novice Women (1:47.4)
• McGill Varisty Women (1:49.5) def Brebeuf (1:54.5)
• Going No Where Fast (1:26.5) def Brebeuf Equipe 2 (1:39.5)
• Juliette & co. (1:39.4) def Mango Delight (1:49.0)
• TeamRow Pro (1:36.5) def Dolphin Riders (1:40.5)
• Medevil Teddy Bears (1:40.0) def Team Moonbeam (1:43.0)

Heat 1 Coxie 1k:

• Pier-Luc Laforge-Garant – 3:30.7
• Philippe Bouchard – 3:37.4
• Brendan Edge – 3:37.7
• Colin Cheung – 3:46.8
• Kathryn Jones – 4:10.7
• Laura Marks – 4:17.2
• Oliver – DNF

Heat 3 of the HW Men’s 2k:

• Charles-Li Benard – 7:05.0
• David Rinaldi – 7:23.9

Heat 2 of the HW Men’s 2k:

• James Peoples 6:34.3
• Larry Tait – 6:42.8
• Alex Langslow 6:43.6
• Drew Tozer – 6:44.0
• Matthew Chaim – 6:59.5
• Dylan – 7:44.2

Heat 1 of the HW Men’s 2k:

• Laim Kirwin – 6:25.9
• Graham B – 6:28.8
• Philippe Toren – 6:38.7
• McClean Francis – 6:53.9
• Robert Laniel – 6:56.9
• Henry Lagardere – 7:06.6

Heat 4 of the LW Men’s 2k:

• Mark York – 6:29.3
• Yann Beaulieu – 6:48.1
• Jeremie Adel – 6:59.4
• Henry Wang – 7:06.1

Heat 3 of the LW Men’s 2k:

• Marc Bedard – 7:00.6
• Kyle Leroux – 7:01.8
• Eric Saragosa – 7:19.4
• Alex Magder – ?:??.?
• Rebecca Morkunas (HW) – 8:31.1

Heat 2 of the LW Men’s 2k:

• Max Button – 6:53.8
• Phillipe Caron – 6:54.6
• Luis Orozoco: 6:59
• Mario Patentaude – 7:01.1
• Marc Demers – 7:25.3

Heat 1 of the LW Men’s 2k:

• Sylvain Boyer – 6:38.3
• Vincent Ta – 7:06.0
• Ethienne Racine – 7:16.0
• Alex Arsenault-Ouellet – 7:25.6
• Yi Lu – 7:26.8
• CHristophe Guimond-Drapeua – 7:46.2

Heat 3 of the HW Women’s 2k:

• Ronalee Guthland – 7:26.3
• Julia Durham – 7:30.1
• Kelly – 7:30.9
• Laurence M. Bouchard – 7:36.1
• Jasmine Blais – 7:39.7
• Jenny Jones – 7:47.6
• Andrea Toren – 7:50.5
• Caroline Escande – 8:06.9

Heat 2 of the HW Women’s 2k:

• Emily Collins – 7:44.2
• Emma Durham – 7:50.0
• Mira Anand – 7:52.6
• Clemence Fortier – 7:56.1
• Charlotte Skinner – 7:58.8
• Melanie Lacroix – 8:04.5
• Veronique Delean -8:49.3
• Jaqueline Roy – DNF

Heat 1 of the HW Women’s 2k:

• Genevieve Favreau – 7:07.6
• Anne Bourlioux – 7:12.4
• Luce Bourbeau – 7:14.8
• Kalyna Franko – 7:16.2
• Kirsten Crandall – 8:04.5
• Amy Lorincz – 8:06.8
• Sabrina Butt – 8:12.5

Heat 2 of the LW Women’s 2k:

• Juliette Robert – 7:58.6
• Nicole Bellm – 8:08.2
• Pat Goerner – 8:25.1
• Catherine Gravel  - 8:35.1
• Jennifer Dytynyshyn – 8:41.3
• Catherine Treherne – 9:28.3

Heat 1 of the LW Women’s 2k:

• Catherine Fontaine – 7:50.1
• Sabrina Fuizzotto – 8:10.4
• Mieke Hagesteijn – 8:30.1
• Kiri Stern – 8:30.4
• Nazly Abtahi – 8:35.5
• Rosalyn Dunkley – 8:40.3

The Finish:

• Pascal Lussier – 20:23.9
• Sebastien Lallier – 20:54.6
• Larry Tait – 21:34.9
• Brennan de Neeve – 21:44.4

Halfway into the Men’s HW 6k its Pascal Lussier leading the pack, followed by Sebastian Lallier, Larry Tait, and Brennan de Neeve.

The Men’s Heavyweight 6k is underway! Pascal Lussier is trailing Brennan de Neeve by only 5 m!

Our first race pitted Heavyweight Anne Bourlioux against Lightweight Caatherine Sutherland in the women’s 6k! Congratulations to these two for a great race!

Follow us on twitter for live updates as they come @McGillRowing

** NOTE: times are subject to change based on last minute registrations. Updates to the schedule will be made as they arrive**

10:00am Women’s 6k’s (Combined LW and HW)
10:30am Men’s LW 6k
11:00am Men’s HW 6k
11:30am Women’s LW 2k
12:00pm Women’s HW 2k
12:45pm Men’s LW 2k’s
1:30pm Men’s HW 2k’s
2:00pm Coxie 1k
2:10pm Women’s 1k
2:20pm Men’s 1k
2:30pm Relays: Men’s, Women’s, Varsity Challenge Cup, and Co-ed (In that order)

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Wishing you all the best!

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