2008 Woodie Awards
Canadian Under-23 Team tabs former UCF rower
William Perry
Issue date: 7/7/08 Section: Sports
UCF rower Caitlin Pauls was named to the Canadian Under-23 National Team after concluding her collegiate career.
Pauls is a native of St. Catharines, Ontario, and will be rowing with Washington Huskie Samantha Smith. The two of them will represent Canada at the World Rowing U-23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany from July 17 through July 20.
Pauls and her teammates left Sunday for Tilburg, Netherlands, where they will train before traveling to Germany.
"Practices have been going really well for us," Pauls said in a press release. "We've had the opportunity to practice with the Canadian Olympic Team as well as having the Olympic coaches coach us for a few practices. We just got back from a trip to Bucknell where we practiced with the United States U-23 Team.
"Unfortunately, they're not racing a pair, so we just got a head start on the 8-pluses for all the pieces. But it was good for us, and we're ready to go over to Europe and get racing."
The races, also known as regattas, begin on July 17 and end with the finals on July 20. Seven hundred and ninety-two rowers from 54 nations will compete in the championship, the highest number of participants since the event acquired World Rowing Championship status in 2005.
The event began in 1976 as a way to provide young rowers with experience before going to the elite ranks of rowing. It was first named the Match des Seniors and then became the Nations Cup before obtaining complete FISA World Championship status in 2005.
Pauls has helped lead UCF to numerous wins throughout her college career, and the team was ranked as high as No. 9 in the 2007 season.
Pauls, a health science major, has also been recognized for her work in the classroom. She was named a national scholar-athlete by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association and also earned CRCA South Region first-team honors last year.
Before attending UCF, Pauls rowed at the Ridley Graduate Rowing Club during her high school years.
Her prior accomplishments include winning the 2004 Bobby Pearce Award from Rowing Canada as the Canadian Junior Sculler of the Year, winning the Ontario Ergometer Championship all four years, winning the junior lightweight division at Canadian Ergometer and winning first place at the Canadian Schoolboy Championship three times.?
Pauls is a native of St. Catharines, Ontario, and will be rowing with Washington Huskie Samantha Smith. The two of them will represent Canada at the World Rowing U-23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany from July 17 through July 20.
Pauls and her teammates left Sunday for Tilburg, Netherlands, where they will train before traveling to Germany.
"Practices have been going really well for us," Pauls said in a press release. "We've had the opportunity to practice with the Canadian Olympic Team as well as having the Olympic coaches coach us for a few practices. We just got back from a trip to Bucknell where we practiced with the United States U-23 Team.
"Unfortunately, they're not racing a pair, so we just got a head start on the 8-pluses for all the pieces. But it was good for us, and we're ready to go over to Europe and get racing."
The races, also known as regattas, begin on July 17 and end with the finals on July 20. Seven hundred and ninety-two rowers from 54 nations will compete in the championship, the highest number of participants since the event acquired World Rowing Championship status in 2005.
The event began in 1976 as a way to provide young rowers with experience before going to the elite ranks of rowing. It was first named the Match des Seniors and then became the Nations Cup before obtaining complete FISA World Championship status in 2005.
Pauls has helped lead UCF to numerous wins throughout her college career, and the team was ranked as high as No. 9 in the 2007 season.
Pauls, a health science major, has also been recognized for her work in the classroom. She was named a national scholar-athlete by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association and also earned CRCA South Region first-team honors last year.
Before attending UCF, Pauls rowed at the Ridley Graduate Rowing Club during her high school years.
Her prior accomplishments include winning the 2004 Bobby Pearce Award from Rowing Canada as the Canadian Junior Sculler of the Year, winning the Ontario Ergometer Championship all four years, winning the junior lightweight division at Canadian Ergometer and winning first place at the Canadian Schoolboy Championship three times.?