Maisie, a Year 10 student at Great Sankey High School has been selected to represent North West Rowing at the Junior Inter-regional Regatta in April. This is a major national standard championship involving teams selected by British Rowing’s 12 regions in age-group competition.
Following on from her incredible performance in the Northwich selection trials, where Maisie managed to record the fastest time out of all of the field including athletes ranging from the age of 14 to 17, Maisie will now race in the WJ15 (year 10 girls) single sculling event. Competition is in the form of heats and finals over 1500m on the six-lane, international regatta lake at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham. This will take place this Saturday 22nd April.
The head coach for the Warrington Woman’s Squad John McQuillian spoke very highly of Maisie,
‘Maisie is a high-quality young athlete with significant potential and tremendous drive. If she continues to learn and train with the application she has demonstrated so far, she will go a long way in our sport. Rowing can be perceived as somewhat elitist and inaccessible but at Warrington we pride ourselves on being a sport for all that from time to time discovers and nurtures exceptional talent’.
Maisie who has been rowing for 4 years now has attributed her recent success to her current coach, who she said ‘really believed in her’, which gave her the confidence to push herself, as well as the motivation to get herself in the gym, and out on the water 6 times a week.
Maisie is also very aware that the last female her age to represent Warrington in WJ15 single sculling at this event is now a GB Olympic rower, and this is also her main aim for the future.
I am sure you will all join us at Great Sankey in congratulating Maisie on her amazing achievements and wishing her all the best for the North West Championships and beyond.
Good luck Maisie.