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Mississauga Dragon Boat Festival Package

Hard to believe that as soon as the racing season started for us here at MCC it ended with the last race of the Canmas Champs last night.  Missy paddlers of all ages competed all week in Welland, Ontario at the Canadian Canoe/Kayak National Championships- placing 4th overall, behind only Trois-Rivers, Cheema and Burloak.

Highlights were plentiful.  From our youngest competitors earning their first Nationals medal in small boats to our seasoned vets helping turn a tough day around in the war canoes, MCC had many fantastic results.  Ecstatic parents cheered 4 days straight and unquestionably played a significant role in this years’ MCC success. THANK YOU!!

National Champions include:

Katy Vincent (4x), Keir Johnston, Anatolyy Mykhayletsky, Chris Vincent (3x), Joel Castonguay (2x), Lee Barich (2x), Drew Gildner (3x) and the Jr. Ladies War Canoe (L. Clarke, K. Vincent, E. Loek, K. Smith, H. Zita, C. Plewes, N. Doherty, E. Caruana, D. Barich, R. Edwards, H. Langlois, R. Pak, M. Cordeiro, M. Howard)

Congratulations MCC, thank you for a fantastic 2011!

Our Bantam/Peewee program successfully competed at the Trillium Championships (Provinicals) over the weekend, placing 3rd overall.   The young athletes are already excited about the prospects of winning the event next year when they will all be “sr. bantams”.

Led by coach Rachel Edwards, Haley Langlois, George Hurley Jr., Holly Zita, Erika Caruana and Mike O’shell, the group achieved great results.

One of the highlights of the day came in the bantam women’s war canoe.  Our girls battled hard from start to finish and were victorious in the end.  An exciting end to a great day.

The pain is only temporary, but the Glory lasts forever!!

After many trials and tribulations, Joel Castonguay and Chris Vincent realized their dream of being selected to Canada’s Jr. World Championship Team that will be competing in Brandenburg, Germany later this month.  Joel and Chris sealed the deal with a victory in the men’s C4 1000m event on Saturday against a field of 20 of Canada’s top Junior canoe paddlers.  Joel and Chris also  placed 3rd in the C2 1000m event less then two seconds off of clubmates Drew Gildner and Lee Barich- themselves coming very near to their own selection to the team after a weekend full of exemplary results!

Joel and Chris have trained together weekly for several years leading up to Saturday’s selection races. Their countless hours of training, their determination and commitment have been instrumental to having both selected to represent our country.

The Mississauga Canoe Club is extremely proud of these two young men and very excited to follow the results coming from Germany.  Best of luck guys!

Recent Jr. World MCC athletes:

• 2005 – Chris Edwards, Dana Morgoch, Geoff Clarke, Tanya Thompson
• 1999 – Andrew Petrolito
• 1997 – Kyle Jeffery
• 1995 – Drayton Coolen, Jeff Daniels, Chirs Sillers, Doug Tutty (coach)
• 1993 – Tamas Buday Jr., Rich Phlelan, Doug Tutty (coach)
• 1991 – Attila Buday, Tamas Buday Jr., Blake Hara, Greg Seko, Mike Oryshak

Click here to view the Mississauga New’s online article on Chris & Joel:

This past weekend MCC had several athletes compete at the Ontario Team Trials in Welland, Ontario.  From 1st year midgets to senior athletes, the club was well represented in the full weekend of racing.

MCC would like to acknowledge and congratulate those who were selected by the Ontario Canoe Team to represent the province at the Lake Placid International Regatta, July 2-4.

Selected athletes are: George Hurley Jr., Drew Gildner, Sebastian Serdegna, Evan Bezemer, Katie Vincent, Haley Langlois, Holly Zita and Alex Bogorin.

Notable performances came from our young kayakers who competed at their first trials with fantastic results. The hard work they put into training throughout the off-season was quite visible and we are all very excited for future successes.

Evan Bezemer realized his potential to race against the ‘big boys’ and came home with several outstanding placings in the C1 finals.  Evan teamed with fellow MCCmate Drew Gildner to win a thrilling C2 1000m race and a huge C2 500m race.  Congrats to you both.

Katie Vincent showed no signs of rust from a winter spent on the slopes and threatened one of the nations’ best female canoers in both the 1000m and 500m events.  Despite coming 2nd in both, Katie set personal bests and showed great canoe form.

Lauren Clarke, Lee Barich, Keir Johnston, Chris Giacomelli and Anatolyy Mykhayletskyy all had equally notable performances. Congratulations!

Dragonboat draws a crowd- Results: MDBF Results

 

Close race. The Pickering Trojans were neck-and-neck against Cawthra Park Panthers at the Mississauga Dragon Boat Festival on the Credit River Sunday. Photo by Peter McCusker

The Mississauga Dragonboat Festival keeps getting bigger and bigger each year. Now in its eighth year, the event, hosted by the Mississauga Canoe Club brought in 49 high school, mixed, women and corporate teams from across the Greater Toronto Area today along the Credit River.
“49 teams is a lot,” said Mary Ellen Bench, marketing and communications director of the Mississauga Canoe Club. “We can take a few more teams but we’re starting to become a very big event.
“We’re almost at capacity in terms of size. People have to put in requests for these races.”
The event also raises funds for Trillium Health Centre each year.
The Mississauga Canoe Club Stone Hookers won the women’s title, the Pickering Trojans won the high school championship and the Outer Harbour Senior Women won the mixed final.
Cawthra Park Secondary School and Streetsville were among the high school teams competing while Subaru and Longo’s were two of the big corporate teams. Toronto Police and Peel Regional Police each had two teams registered.
Bench said the meet showcases the Port Credit waterfront and is a great way of attracting new club members and participants.
“We’ve had a lot of inquiries about all of our programs because of this,” she said. “People have been really excited about this and I’ve had a lot of people ask me for (membership) forms.”
The Misssissauga Canoe Club also hosted its home regatta, now in its 52nd year, yesterday.
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Mississauga News, June 11, 2011

Canoe club wins host regatta

 

War Canoe. Team Courtney Plewes of the Mississauga Canoe Club paddles hard during the Mississauga Canoe Club’s annual regatta held at Port Credit. Photo by Claudio Cugliari

The Mississauga Canoe Club (MCC) captured the overall points total at their 52nd annual Canoe/Kayak Regatta today in Port Credit.
Hundreds of men, women and children aged six all the way to sixty paddled their way down the Credit River in the first independent race of the season.
Clubs throughout the GTA including Pickering, Rouge Valley, Richmond Hill, Burloak, Balmey Beach, Niagara South and Cobourg, who were a first time entry competed in this year’s races.
The regatta featured paddlers competing in the one, two and four person canoe and kayak events. Burloak Canoe Club finished second overall with 883 points, 73 behind Mississauga. Balmy Beach finished a distant third with 383 points.
“It’s one of those little known sports that the people who are part of the sport are very passionate about it,” said Mary Ellen Bench, marketing and communications director of the Mississauga Canoe Club. “They live for the sport the same way other athletes treat soccer or tennis. It’s an up and coming sport.”
There was also a 15-man war canoe race where 14-year old Ethan Zita of the Mississauga Canoe Club was competing in as one of his four events on the day. His enjoyment on the water has brought him back to the canoe club for the past three years.
“It’s just the environment of the sport,” said Zita, who placed first in the midget men’s C4 and third in the C2. “It’s a lot of fun to be with your friends.”
Many of the athletes will compete on June 25 at the Ontario Team Trials in Welland, leading up to the National Championships on August 24, also in Welland.
Others will head to Welland for the Trillium Championship qualifiers taking place in July. Paddlers will attempt to qualify for the Trillium Championships on August 14 in Ottawa.
The MCC is also hosting the Mississauga Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow, which is held in support of breast cancer on behalf of the Betty Wallace Women’s Health Centre and the Trillium Health Centre.
“We hope people can enjoy the waterfront, learn what Mississauga has to offer,” said Bench. “We have great competitive venues and great recreational venues as well.”