The Rio Olympic Women’s single scull preview has been released with Bermuda’s Shelley Pearson making her Olympic Debut.
Pearson has a formidable rowing pedigree, a two-time junior world champion racing for the USA, she is also a four-year varsity eight rower, Pearson sat in the stroke seat of the varsity eight that won the inaugural Ivy League Championships in 2012, before going on to compete at the Royal Henley Regatta in England..
In 2014 she went up to Oxford to study for a Masters in Childhood development and education, and despite suffering from a cyst in her pelvis won one of the best women’s Blue Boats in history in the 2015 crew that raced on the Tideway course for the first time in the races history.
She trialled unsuccessfully for the Great Britain team but has now established herself as a serious contender in the single for her native Bermuda.
Pearson won the America’s qualifying regatta and placed 9th at the Poznan World Cup. A B-Final finish in Rio will be a great achievement.
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