The Brockville Rowing Club has taken big steps forward to rejuvenate a once high-profile sports organization. Article content
It’s a proud and long-running club that has produced Olympic medal winners, a lightweight crew that finished seventh at the world championships in 1975, an Olympic rowing official and coaches at the provincial and national levels. Article content Article content
Now, after a number of years of struggling, the BRC is working and building its way back into rowing competitions.
“It was phenomenal,” said an enthusiastic Tyler St. John, the head coach and director of rowing and operations for the BRC. “We had such a good year in the development of our club. There’s excitement here again. I feel things are going really well.”
In the past year, the club has gone fr