Athletes

Andrew Russell

Discipline/Event: Sprint Canoe

Hometown: Dartmouth, NS

Club: Banook

Coach: Jan Kruk

Sponsors: Oakley, Ritch Durnford, RBC Royal Bank

Education: Queen’s University BAH Political Studies, Pharmaceutical Sales Accreditation CCPE

Role Model: Parents

Goals: Race at the 2012 Olympic Games

Interests: Music, writing, sports, volunteering

Significant Results:

International:

2008 Olympics – C-2 1000m, 500m – 6th and 5th

2010 World Championships – C-2 1000 – 7th

2011 World Championships – C-2 1000 – 10th

National:

2011 Nationals – C-1 200 – 2nd

2010 Nationals – C-2 1000 - 2nd

2010 Nationals – C-4 1000 – 2nd

2009 Nationals – C-2 1000 – 2nd

2009 Nationals – C-1 200 – 3rd

Awards:

Fusion Go Awards Health and Wellness Man of the Year 2011

3 Time NS Male Team Athlete of the Year

Banook Volunteer of the Year

Media/Websites:

Twitter: arusscanoe

Latest News

Clayton bound for London Olympics

May 14, 2012

The fate of Nova Scotia boxers Custio Clayton and Brody Blair came down to luck on Saturday, but only Clayton had the rabbit’s foot. Dartmouth’s Clayton, a six-time Canadian amateur champion, will compete at this summer’s London Olympics after grabbing the fifth and final position available at the AIBA American zone qualifying event in Rio… [read more]

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Unofficial: Dartmouth boxer, Custio Clayton earns spot in 2012 Games! http://t.co/5UP4EeI2
3 days ago

Featured Athlete

David Sharpe

Discipline/event: Butterfly/Backstroke Hometown: Halifax Residence: Halifax Club: Halifax Trojans/Dalhousie Tigers Coach: Aaron Maszko/David Fry Education: Currently enrolled at Dalhousie University – Physics Goals: Make the Canadian Olympic team Interests: Surfing, Nintendo 64 Significant results: 2010 Nations Cup (Victoria, Canada) – 200m Butterfly – 5th 2009 World University Games (Belgrade, Serbia) – 100m Backstroke – 20th