Rowers make waves at Killarney

Lloydminster Rowing Club coach Shelby Lane is helping beginners take to rowing like a duck to water as she did years ago.

The high-performance rower, attached to the University of Saskatchewan, is heading up four-day camps at Killarney Lake, Sask., this summer to encourage newbies to give the sport a try.

“It’s good. We’ve had new rowers out every week,” said Lane at the lake last week.

“It’s good to get back to the basics from where I started; I started at the Lloyd rowing club.”

The trick with coaching she says is getting first-timers to come back by making it fun.

“That’s what I aim for,” said Lane, who teaches youth rowers and masters rowers age 23 and over Mondays to Thursdays. “People come because they just like the water and they want to try a new sport, so I’m not pushing anything. I want them to have fun.”

That’s how 19-yearold Lloydminster teen Rayna Bender and 16-year-old Kade George from Marwayne described their initial experience under blue skies.

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