TORONTO (CIS) – The McMaster rowing program will be well represented in September, when the FISU World University Rowing Championship gets underway. Marauder veterans Logan Madill and D'Arcy Arends were among the competitors named on Monday, as Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced the 21 student-athletes who will represent Canada at the event in Poznan, Poland, September 2-4.

McMaster assistant coach Jake Thomasen, meanwhile, was named to the coaching staff for the event, under the leadership of Victoria's Rick Crowley.

Playing an important part in a breakthrough season for McMaster's rowers, Madill was a member of the heavyweight men's eight crew that won the school's first-ever medal in the event at the OUA Championships in 2015. He followed with a fourth-placed effort alongside decorated teammate Karl Zimmermann at the Canadian University Rowing Championships in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

The captain of the Marauder women's team, Arends similarly achieved an encouraging result at the national championship event in 2015, finishing fifth in the women's single.

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The team is made up of 20 rowers exclusively from Ontario University Athletics and Canada West schools, as well as one college athlete. Victoria leads the way with four rowers, while defending Canadian university rowing champion Western sees three of its members join Team Canada, in addition to one of its club athletes. 

The men's roster includes UVic's Mark Davies (Victoria, B.C.) and Adam Donaldson (Victoria, B.C.), Western's Matthew Christie (Ottawa, Ont.) and Adam Rabalski (Guelph, Ont.), Toronto'sJacob Giesbrecht (Wanfleet, Ont.) and Andre Vovk (Richmond Hill, Ont.), Brock's Luke Gadsdon (Hamilton, Ont.) and Zachary Lewis (Ottawa, Ont.), Trent's Graham Peeters(Omemee, Ont.) and Trevor Jones (Burleigh Falls, Ont.), Madill (Collingwood, Ont.) and Carleton's Hunter Amesbury (Burlinton, Ont.).

The women's team consists of Victoria's Olivia King (Toronto, Ont.) and Rebecca Zimmerman(Toronto, Ont.), Western's Marilyse Dubois (Laval, Que.), and Shannon Kennedy (Toronto, Ont.) – who represents the Western Rowing Club – Carleton's  Anna Currie (Regina, Sask.), Ottawa'sAlanna Fogarty (Ottawa, Ont.), Calgary's Helena Hlas (Winnipeg, Man.), Arends (Utopia, Ont.) and Patricia Mara (Victoria, B.C.) of Camosun College.

Christie and Lewis return from the 2015 Universiade team, while Mara, who also competed at the Gwangju Games, will be making her fourth appearance for Canada at a FISU event, following the 2010 and 2014 world university championships.

Christie and Peters have also both represented Canada as members of the national World U23 team in 2013 and 2015.

Crawley, who guided the Vikes women to a second-place finish at last year's national championship, will serve as team leader. He has won 11 Canadian university titles and captured three gold medals as a coach at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics. His coaching staff includes Ottawa's Kate Gorsline, Western's Andrew Jago, McMaster's Jake Thomasen and Toronto's Iain Wilson.

At the 2014 world university championship, Canada reached the podium twice, earning silver in the men's four and bronze in the men's eight event. 

CANADIAN ROSTER
 
MEN

Name                        University                   Hometown                 Event
Hunter Amesbury        Carleton                      Burlington, Ont.          Coxless four
Matthew Christie         Western                       Ottawa, Ont.               Lightweight single sculls
Mark Davies               Victoria                       Victoria, B.C.              Coxless pair
Adam Donaldson         Victoria                       Victoria, B.C.              Coxless pair
Luke Gadsdon             Brock                          Hamilton, Ont.           Coxless four
Jacob Geisbrecht          Toronto                       Wanfleet, Ont.            Lightweight double sculls  Trevor Jones               Trent                          Burleigh Falls, Ont.     Double sculls
Zachary Lewis             Brock                         Ottawa, Ont.               Coxless four
Logan Madill               McMaster                  Collingwood, Ont.       Coxless four
Adam Rabalski             Western                     Guelph, Ont.               Single sculls
Graham Peeters            Trent                         Omemee, Ont.             Double sculls
Andre Vovk                 Toronto                     Richmond Hill, Ont.     Lightweight double sculls

WOMEN
  
Name                        University                   Hometown                 Event

D'Arcy Arends            McMaster                    Utopia, Ont.                Coxless four
Anna Currie                Carleton                      Regina, Sask.              Lightweight double sculls
Marilyse Dubois          Western                       Laval, Que.                 Coxless four
Alanna Fogarty           Ottawa                         Ottawa, Ont.               Lightweight double sculls
Helena Hlas                 Calgary                       Winnipeg, Man.          Double sculls
Patricia Mara               Camosun College        Victoria, B.C.              Lightweight single sculls
Olivia King                 Victoria                       Toronto, Ont.              Coxless four
Shannon Kennedy        Western                       Toronto, Ont.               Double sculls
Rebecca Zimmerman    Victoria                       Toronto, Ont.              Coxless four

Team Leader: Rick Crowley (University of Victoria)
Coaches: Kate Gorsline (University of Ottawa), Andrew Jago (Western University), Jake Thomasen (McMaster University), Iain Wilson (University of Toronto)