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Season Preview Queen’s Rowing - Gaels start season with Head of the Trent this weekend

Recent Success: 2018 OUA Women's Silver Medalists, 2018 OUA Men's Bronze Medalists, 11 OUA individual medals, 7 CURC individual medals 
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The Gaels men's and women's rowing teams will look to build off last season's success as they kick off their 2019 season at the annual Head of the Trent on October 5 in Peterborough. 

The Gaels earned 11 medals, nine gold and two silver at the 2018 OUA Championship as the men's team won overall bronze and the women's earned silver, respectively. They then saw continued success at the Canadian University Rowing Championship with another seven medals including four gold medal performances.

Gavin Stone and Alex Bernst led the way for Queen's men at the OUA with two gold medals in the single and double events, while Paige Adams and Cassidy Deane led the Gaels women's team with two gold medals. 

Stone finished off his Gaels career as the OUA's Male Athlete of the Year and received an OUA All-Star selection. He was also named the Queen's Athletics Outstanding Performer of the Year. 

Adams returns for her fourth year with the Gaels and the young team will look to both her, fifth year Greta Chase and third year Jane Carlton as leaders on the team. Carlton and Chase had a gold at last year's OUA championship in the lightweight double with Chase adding a lightweight single silver. In the women's pair at the CURC Adams took a national bronze while Chase finished fourth in the lightweight women's double with Jane Carlton.

On the men's side, the 2018 CURC gold medal lightweight men's four crew returns Evan Notley, while Michael Bryenton who picked up sixth in the men's pair is back for his fifth year. Bryenton had a gold finish at the OUA championships while Notley had gold and silver finishes.

The Gaels have plenty of international experience on their roster as rowers Megan Stellato and Michael Bryenton competed for Canada at the 2019 World U23 Championships. Stellato finished fourth in her individual competition while Bryenton came in eleventh.

As a tune-up for the OUA season, members of the Gaels team recently competed at the Canadian National Rowing Championships on sunny Burnaby Lake which saw four days of competition hosted by Rowing BC and featuring National Team and NextGen athletes.

Queen's rowing results included:

Gold U19 Women's Single – Claire Ellison

Silver U19 Men's Single – Andrew Hubbard

5th U23 Men's Single – Michael Bryenton

Gold U23 Men's Lightweight Single – Alex Bernst (alumni)

Current Gaels Shaye de Paiva, Ben Ravenscroft also competed at the regatta, along with alumni Gavin Stone and Louise Munro.

Queen's will be led by volunteer head coach Rami Maassarani who earned OUA women's head coach of the year for the Gaels efforts in 2018 with Katie Bruggeling serving as the lead assistant.

MICHAEL BRYENTON - "Queen's had a really great season this summer for international competition, we had five athletes selected to national teams. Overall this year we have a pretty new team. The biggest challenge will be transferring the experience from our senior athletes to our younger ones. Even though it is a fairly new team I'm really excited about what we have in store for this season."

Rami Maasaarani - Head Coach

- Number of seasons as head coach with team (including 2019): 2
- Career OUA Team Medals: M - 1 Bronze | W - 1 Silver

Key Returnees:

Greta Chase
Paige Adams
Jane Carlton
Michael Bryenton
Evan Notley

Key Losses:

Gavin Stone
Alexander Bernst
Nicholas Grubic
Cassidy Deane
Louise Munro
Daniel Stret
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