PARACANOE
identify, recruit, and train talented athletes
CKO Sprint has developed a Paracanoe Talent Identification & Talent Transfer program. The program provides support to talented Para athletes within our sport and recruits elite Para athletes from other Para sports. The goal of the program is to identify, recruit and train talented athletes and coaches to reach international podium performances within three (3) to four (4) years.
If you are interested in joining our talent ID/talent transfer program in your area contact our Technical Director, Ryan Blair.
Meet Brianna Hennessy, Canoe/Kayak Paralympian!
Brianna Hennessy competed in two events in her Paralympic Games debut in 2021. She earned a berth for her first Paralympic Games with a fourth-place finish in the women’s VL2 200-m at a World Cup event in Hungary held in May 2021. Her qualification for Tokyo came less than two years after she took up the sport of Para canoe.
Two years after her injury in 2014, Hennessy was initially introduced to wheelchair rugby by the Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre. She grew up in a sports family and Hennessy herself played AA hockey, provincial-level rugby and was an amateur boxing champ in Ontario before her accident at age 30.
Meet Mike Trauner, Para Athlete & Canadian Veteran
Master Corporal Mike Trauner, who lost both his legs while deployed in Afghanistan in 2008, has a new lease on life. It is called national team Para athlete and he couldn’t be happier. (paralympic.ca)
