Tees Trio Make their Mark
Three young girls from Teesside have returned from the British Indoor Rowing Championships with all of them achieving a top 5 place.
Beth Bryan, Jo Wratton and Beth Henderson are all members of British Rowing World Class Start Programme and Tees Active Sports Academy, were competing alongside 2000 other rowers at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena.
The girls all pupils at Egglescliffe School were competing in their respective categories with 14year old Beth Henderson taking the bronze medal in the J15 category with Beth covereing a distance of 1352m in 5 minutes. Beth Henderson who is 15 was competing in the J16 category and finished in 4th position covering the required 2000m in a time of 7: 45 sec.16 year old Jo Wratten was competing in the J18 category and finished 5th covering 2000m in 7:18 sec
What makes the girls performance even more impressive is the fact that they have been only rowing for a year after being spotted as part of British Rowings talent identification programme.
The girls coach Nathan Adams who is British Rowings north east talent development coach based at the Tees Rowing Club said” The girls results last weekend were an outstanding as they were only introduced to rowing 12 months ago and is reward for all the hard work they have put in.Jo has just returned from a Great Britain Potential camp where she also performed extremely well
”There is no rest for the girls as they are back to their rigorous 12 hours per week training regime which is a mixture of water work onthe River Tees and land based work in the gym"
For further information on On the World Class Start Programme for Rowing can contact Nathan Adams at Nathan.adams@gbrowing.org.uk