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Kerry Finds Her Cougar Feet

A young Teesside rower has switched training from the River Tees to Snake River in the Pacific North West. Kerry Hassall a member of Tees Active Sports Academy and former member of Tees Rowing Club is now a sophomore at Washington State University where she is part of the ‘Cougars’ rowing team.

Washington State University is classed as a division 1 school as regards their sporting prowess in the highly competitive arena of American College Sports .Kerry a former member of British Rowing’s World Class potential programme is following an intense training programme as well as keeping up with her academic studies.

Kerry hopes to continue her American experience for another 2 years and will graduate in 2014 In the meantime 21 year old Kerry continues with her twice daily training sessions as she travels across the USA competing against the strongest sporting colleges in the country.

Kerry said “Life here is pretty crazy here and I take it one day at a time as the schedule is so busy. The whole experience at Washington State has been tremendous and I have the support of some fantastic friends, teammates and excellent coaching staff. The facilities over here are superb and over the next two years I know I am going to have to work hard to get my seat in the top two boats. But having the opportunity to study and compete here definitely makes the early morning training sessions worthwhile”