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The Chronicle November 29, 2011 45
Tyler Richards
The Chronicle
She’s captain of the rowing
team, participates in numerous
events throughout the year
including orientation week at
the beginning of each year,
holds down a part-time job
and despite the fact that the
rowing team practices twice a
day six times a week Christie
Attwood maintains an honour
roll standing.
Over the years since, the kinesiology
student joined the
rowing team, shes has done
her best to promote the team’s
presence in not only UOIT,
but Durham College as well.
This year the rowing team set a
UOIT record for being the first
sports team from the school to
compete at the national level.
“I’ve always been into
sports. In high school I played
volleyball and soccer for all
four years. When I came to
school it wasn’t the first thing
on my mind, but about halfway
through my first year one
of my friends introduced me to
rowing at the school and I have
been hooked ever since,” said
Attwood who is captain of the
rowing team.
She participated in her first
national championship this
month when the UOIT rowing
team competed in the Canadian
University Rowing Association
finals in Welland.
“You know it was a really
good experience, something I
am definitely going to remember
forever, not just for placing
fourth, but for just being
there,” she said.
Ken Babcock, the Athletic
Director for both UOIT and
Durham, has nothing but good
things to say about Attwood.
“Not only is she a varsity
athlete here at the school, she
is also a student at the university
and a valued member of
our part-time staff here at the
athletic centre.
“She’s involved in every aspect
of our rowing team. She
is in the rowing executive, she
Sports
Last season for chief rower
UOIT
rowing
captain
Christie
Attwood
moving on
Al Fournier
THE IDEAL STUDENT: In 2010 Christie Attwood won the UOIT leadership award,
maintained an honour roll average throughout the entire school year, held down a
part-time job and took part in numerous other activities throughout the year.
Durham College coach wins
ECBA achievement award
Big Picky
The Chronicle
Following another fantastic
season with the men’s
baseball team Durham College,
Sam Dempster has been
awarded the European Baseball
Coaches Association Career
Achievement Award.
Dempster is also head
coach of the Great Britain
baseball team, and is being
recognized for his work both
with Team Great Britain and
the Durham Lords.
Leading Great Britain to an
8-6 victory over Israel July 27,
Dempster helped secure their
place as the 2012 European
championships, Dempster returned
to Canada to coach the
men’s baseball program at the
college.
In 19 years with the Lords,
Dempster has only had one
losing season, racking up
seven CIBA Ontario championships,
including this year’s
winning effort. In addition to
his work with the college and
Team Great Britain, Dempster
is an associate scout for
the Milwaukee Brewers in
Major League Baseball.
Dempster hopes he will be
arriving back at the college
next fall with another European
Championships medal and
another CIBA winning team.
does a lot of behind-the-scenes
stuff relating to rowing and
she is very active in promoting
the rowing program. Christie’s
contributions on all of those
levels have been very impressive,
she’s always there at every
event willing to help out,
she’s at other events that aren’t
her own events willing to help
out and she’s a real pleasure to
have working for us as a student,”
said Babcock.
Once rowing is over Attwood
does get to have a little fun.
“During the rowing season we
(the team) don’t get to go out to
bars and party and we’re very,
very focused. To me I think
you gotta do a little bit of everything.
If you go 100 per cent
rowing you don’t really focus
on school and if you go 100 per
cent school you lose a little of
the fun part of university. You
need to prioritize --- school
comes first, rowing comes second
and then if I have time to
go out on a Thursday night awesome,
and if I don’t, I don’t.”
Attwood has also maintained
a part-time job as a front
desk clerk at the campus recreation
centre on campus for the
last four years.
“Luckily for me the rec centre
is an easy place to work. My
bosses are great, they understand
that I row and let me pick
my shifts so I can work it into
Austin Rogers
The Chronicle
Lords volleyball player Dave
McMann became the team’s
all-time scoring leader on
Nov .19 as the Lords won 3-0
against Boreal.
McMann recorded six points
and five blocks in the game,
bringing his career totals to 610
and 148 respectively.
“Dave is an outstanding
player,” said Lords coach Andrew
Hinchey. “Middles in this
my schedule,” she said. “Work
for me has never been a priority.
Obviously I need to work because
I need to pay for school,
but it ends up fitting into my
schedule really well. If I had
any other job I don’t know if I
would be able to do it.”
Michelle Roberts is one of
Attwood’s bosses at the CRWC.
“She’s awesome! She takes on a
leadership role, she’s very confident
in what she does, she’ll
go the extra mile for the client
and she takes time to ask questions
and find out the information
she needs to do her job effectively.”
What isn’t lost on Attwood is
school; it has always been her
number one. “In my first and
second year I wasn’t an honour
roll student, but I did get good
grades, high 70s. It was really
later on in my program when I
started to push my grades higher,
for a post-graduate degree
in my program you need really
high grades to get into the programs.
“At this point I’m not going
to pursue a graduate (degree),
you know I have been in school
for so long it will just be nice to
take a break from it all,” said
Attwood.
But Attwood, who has been
in post-secondary school for
the last five years, says coming
back to school isn’t off the
table.
She was supposed to graduate
last year, but decided to
take more classes and further
her education.
She said one of the proudest
moments of her academic
career was carrying the banner
for her faculty last year when
she was supposed to graduate.
“It’s really special because
usually only people who are
graduating carry the banner,
but the fact that they chose me,
someone who wasn’t graduating
really stuck to me,” Attwood
said.
But for now she wants to get
a job and maybe work in sports,
an area she is quite familiar
with.
McMann spikes his
way to the leaderboard
game do not get enough recognition
because their position
is the hardest position to play.
Dave works hard every practice
and his hard work really started
to pay off last year.”
McMann was not the leading
scorer in the game, however;
Jeremy Hoekstra and Jordan
McFarlane scored 9 points
each.
The Lords returned home
on Thursday, Nov. 24 against
Trent.