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netball, hockey, rounders,<br />
cross-country and<br />
badminton: she is a<br />
seriously accomplished<br />
athlete, who runs and<br />
swims every week to<br />
maintain a peak of<br />
fitness for her rowing<br />
– arguably one of the<br />
most exhausting and<br />
demanding of sports.<br />
Contributed<br />
2010 was a purple<br />
year for Clio, because<br />
she was selected to<br />
represent Great Britain<br />
in the Under-18 rowing team at the<br />
European Championships held at<br />
Hazelwinkel in Belgium in July. A year<br />
of success saw her win a silver medal<br />
at the UK National Championships<br />
single sculls held at Strathclyde in<br />
Scotland, and take first place in the<br />
Scullers’ Head of the River race – a<br />
national event for single sculls rowed<br />
on the Oxford/Cambridge boat race<br />
course on the Thames in December.<br />
Recognition nearer home came with<br />
her then being voted Young Sports<br />
Personality of the Year 2010 by Suffolk<br />
Coastal. Clio was also awarded a<br />
coveted Suffolk SportsAid Foundation<br />
Grant, which will cover the cost of<br />
regular sport massages – essential<br />
to help prevent injury and ensure an<br />
uninterrupted training programme.<br />
It was a year that Clio will probably<br />
always remember.<br />
So what now, Clio My main aim is to<br />
be selected to represent Great Britain<br />
Clio (right) with her single sculls medal at the UK National<br />
Championships<br />
again, she says – hopefully at the 2011<br />
Junior World Championships that will<br />
be held at Dorney Lake, the 2012 Olympics<br />
venue. My domestic targets for<br />
2011 are to win at the Women’s Henley<br />
Regatta, and also the National Schools<br />
Regatta. Training is rigorous, steady<br />
and vitally important. Clio is out on the<br />
Deben at weekends during the winter,<br />
and when the clocks change she will<br />
row several evenings every week in addition<br />
to weekends. She must train six<br />
days per week – about a dozen sessions<br />
of rowing on the water, rowing machine,<br />
weights, circuit training, running<br />
and swimming. It is a tough regime.<br />
In the longer term, Clio wants to<br />
continue rowing at University, and she<br />
also intends to trial for Great Britain<br />
at both the Under-23’s and Senior<br />
levels. ‘Trial’– what an apt word for a<br />
combination of gruelling tests on the<br />
rowing machine and on the water. After<br />
meeting the qualifying time on the<br />
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