Brockville Rowing Club
History 1980s
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The Canadian Amateur Rowing Association honored five Brockville Rowing Club members at the 100th annual CARA annual meeting in Windsor: Bill Tooker, Ben TeKamp, Moe Cody, Wes Curan, and Doug Marshall. Marshall received the CARA centennial medal.
1980 BRC, Eastern Rowing Association champions, Olympic Basin, Montreal. Back row: Bill Cody, Duncan Patterson, Jay Kyle, Tom Earle, Jane Pal, Betty Craig, Bob Shackles, Jim Earle, Bill Earle. Middle row: Jim McKenna, John Empey, Al MacAuley, Jeff Smith, Gary MacKeigan, Jim Sabourin, Loise Theriault, Todd Arnold, Tom Beckering, Mike Nadeau, John McKenna, Meena Morriswala, Ann Drummond, Shannon Kelly, Doug Marshall, Twink Fodey. Front row: Doug Shackles, Scott Inniss, Jim Whitely, Scott Giroux, Chris Marshall, Thea Beckering (behind), Julie Henry, Tracy Waterson, and Margaret Tarlington.
Schoolboy 155lb and senior lightweight pair Henley champions, 1980: Gary MacKeigan, Jane Pal coach, and Brian Gray.
Up, up and away! Brockville coxswain Craig Miller reached new heights wehn his victorious crew gave him the traditional dunking after winning the junior and senior 145lb championships a the Royal Canadian Henley in 1981. Crew members were Paul Naylor, Chris Marshall, John McKenna, Tom Beckering, Jim Sabourin, Dave Henderson, Pat Davis, and Jim McKenna.
Otto Jelinek, Federal Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport, presents awards to the Junior 140lb cox four 1985 Henley champions: Rob VandeWoude cox, Curt Wheeler, Phil Marshall, Scott King, and Brent Jodoin.
City council and the BRC honored Betty Craig Dolores Young, and Ben TeKamp for participating in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Brian McRobie is on the left. As the winner of a silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympics, Betty Craig achieved the highest level of any BRC athelete. Craig, Young, and TeKamp were aslo part of the Candadian Rowing Team at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
Winners, lightweight women's four, 1987 Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association Regatta: Dana Paul (cox), Kerry Sturla, Kathleen Robertson, Deanne Moore, Amy Hughes.
1989 Royal Canadian Henley 140lb pair champions: Curt Wheeler and Tom Dumbrille.
Brockville Collegiate Institute captured the national high school junior lightweight cox four women's event in 1982. Twink Fodey coach, Melanie Sutcliffe, Jane Billings, Roxanne Grabel, Marjorie Strayner, and Tina Montgomery cox.
Brockville Collegiate Institute enjoyed a banner year in 1982 winning six national titles at the Canadian Secondary School Rowing Championships. Back row: Al Besselink, Scott Giroux, Pat Davis, David Holmes, David Henderson, Paul Giroux, Craig Miller. Middle row: Al MacAulay, Twink Fodey, Mike Lizee, Chris Marshall, Jim Whitley, Peter Johnston, Tom Beckering, Paul Naylor, John McKenna, Jim Sabaziotis, Rene Thibault, Shane Easter, Doug Marshall, Gary MacKeigan. Front row: Tina Montgomery, Marj Strayer, Roxanne Grabel, Melanie Sutcliffe, Jane Billings, Jackie Laidley, Julie Henry, and Patty Marshall. Missing from photo: Tracy Waterson and Anne Drummond.
1989 Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association senior women's lightweight four champions: Dana Paul cox, Kerry Sturla, Amy Hughes, Sarah Hamilton, and Cheri Fournier.
1989 Royal Canadian Henley winners in the intermediate men's pair: Steve Hickling and Phil Marshall.
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