A local Tobacco Farmer

This athlete recent voted (according to her facebook profile picture). She firmly believes that a day in which matching socks are worn is a day which has been wasted. This trait makes her easy to spot in a crowd because her shoes, socks and other apparel are all likely to be pretty vibrantly coloured. A member of a significant minority, she is studying engineering here at Western. Originally, she comes from the small town just outside of London, known as mount Brydges where she grew up in a tobacco farm. This is lucky for her because it means she just escapes the label of being a ‘townie’. Unfortunately, it means she lives in a tiny little town. She was recruited off the track team to come and start rowing – and by recruited I mean poached but that’s just semantics. She enjoys being in engineering because she enjoys being surrounded by boys. Her facebook page seems to have an odd number of selfie style pictures takes with one Caleb McCleary. Some say that if she owned a wireless company, she too would urge the CRTC to take it’s time with new regulations owing to the fact that her companies contracts give her legal rights to all their clients coloured socks; and that if you give her an important job to do, she’ll skive off and play croquet. All we know is, it’s Kristen Bujnowski!

I may not be at re-rigging, I have an exam

This member of our team is proud to be able to touch her tongue to her nose. However, it may be difficult to acquire a demonstration of this talent owing to the fact that she is part of the infamous crew which was received the ‘disappearing act’ award. As part of the questionnaire which was sent around to all of us going down to Georgia in order to gain some useful information for each person’s biography; she responded in a similar fashion to the majority of the team – with a “Land Before Time” reference.  Anyway, her favorite dinosaur is Petrie the Pteranodon. She claims that she ‘may or may not’ be the subject of a tragically hip song, the operative words in that sentence being ‘may or may not’. Unlike most others for this trip, who responded to the question ‘what are you most looking forward to’ with something to do with, food, American stereotypes or Honey Boo Boo, she is most excited to be able to row and then not worry about falling asleep in class later. This is something that wouldn’t be a problem if we decided to practice at a ‘normal’ time, hint hint coaches. Some say that if she was mayor, she would have called something better than transit busses to transport her football team, and that she recently launched her own line of designer Tupperware. All I know is, her name is Alex Stefanovski

Rowing Fast and Taking Names

Serbian, lightweight, cerise and blue,  NDCO. These are just a few words which can be used to describe this member of the crew going down to Georgia with us. With the exception of the Head of the Trent regatta she won her event in every regatta this fall – notably including the Head of the Charles regatta. As with Jill, she would prefer to spend an evening in a onesie (aka snuggie) eating food. This is starting to seem like a bit of a trend with lightweight women – onesies, nothing against them, just an observation. Clocking in at 8.750 vertically stacked pencil crayons tall, she has spent most of her life in St Catherines, the self-proclaimed center of rowing in Canada (where are the national team training centers again?). Some say that she once beat a heavyweight man at bench press and she has recently developed an irrational hatred of Rubens Barrichello, Wait, no she didn’t develop a hatred, because unlike the Stig, she has not been beaten by him. Anyway, all we know is, it’s Sara Matovic.

Back to athlete bios

This athlete is one of the ones who makes all the TID coaches in the land get really excited. Measuring in at something like 50 jars of peanut butter tall (or potentially 51, that’s up for debate), she is known for pulling on the erg like a heavy man. My theory on this is that it could be due to over-enjoyment of the movie Remember the Titans. A good way to describe her is evolving, having used to be a swimmer she recently crawled out of the water and into a boat, so my theory is that her next sport will be something to do with flying.  Having truly adopted a kinesiology student sort of attitude, she says that ideally she would spend her evenings at either kiwi kraze or bulk barn wearing sweats, as opposed to jeans, or Canada Goose jackets, of Lulu pants or Uggs. Some say that she only knows two facts about ducks and both of them are wrong. And that if she had directed Jurassic Park she would have had the T-Rex win. All we know is, it’s Lenore!

All I Want is Braveheart and a Beer

Two score and four years ago, this waffle loving, wake making, Western attending, wacky, fun loving guy was born. He professes his ideal evening to be spent doing nothing but petting a pot-bellied pig named Hamlet. However, those of us who know him well enough to be his facebook friends would probably agree that he also enjoys a good screening of Braveheart while drinking beer. Seriously, I’ve seen this same status something like 3 times in the last couple months. His favorite dinosaur is the Ankylosaurus, I don’t really have a joke for that one; but at least you learned something from reading this post right?  Preferring not to brag about his personal athletic achievements, he responded to the question “most notable athletic achievement” with ‘I think I went to the gym yesterday’. On the other hand, I do happen to know that he plays a mean game of beer pong and has an aptitude for chugging Guinness. He has been referred to as a real Mario Andretti behind the wheel of a car. Some say that he thought Star Wars was a documentary, and that he likes his athletes to take their oars down to the dock 6 hours before the race. All I know is, he’s coach Matt Waddell.

I had a post title, but it got hacked

Measuring a whopping 0.0010606061 miles high, she is an athletic force to be reckoned with, whose almost best known achievement was winning the 2012 beer Olympics on an all female novice team. As a lightweight rower, the thing which she is most looking forward to during the upcoming trip to the USA is eating at Chipotle. She was on the trip last year where her random shotgun obsession came to light. I’m not going to elaborate on that one. Ideally, she would find herself sitting in a onesie (aka snuggie) watching the bachelor.  Some say that she once hacked into her own facebook account and that in her wallet, she keeps a photo of her wallet. All I know is, her name is Jill.

This post would have been longer. However, it seems that her facebook profile was hacked yet again, and so instead of finding useful information there, all I found was a tidbit about her bowel regularity.  The next status update also had a rather fishy nature, I believe it was something along the lines of going to a Monday class ‘au natural’ if the post gets liked enough times. So I went further back in statuses, trying to find something of relevance. Unfortunately, no such luck, yet again another hacked, but most definitely entertaining status.

The picture, similar to the picture from my description is of her passed out. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find another one I wanted to use. So here we go, another sleeping picture.

The Most Definitely Not Self Serving Autobiography

Today I am starting the team introductions, with my own. As per last year, one of the things I have been most anticipating is the opportunity to write this blog yet again. I was going to say that I will try my best to not make this blog post self-serving, and then realized that I will just do that. After all, we do or do not, as opposed to trying. Clocking in at a whopping 11.3 Stone and 188 000 000 nm tall, sporting an exploded appendix  and originally hailing from the fabled ‘best coast’, I now spend most of my time in London (the one where the Queen does not live). I only row in high definition, ideally near or under bridges; or other items of civil engineering merit. Ever questing for the All-Spark. Some say that I have recently been releasing pop records under the pseudonym of Lady Gaga, and that under my unisuit, there’s another unisuit. All we know is, I’m not called the Stig. I am quite excited to jump in my car and Roll Out for Georgia.

Hey y'all! Read This!

Welcome to the blog for the Western Mustangs reading week Georgia training camp. No, we are not yet in Georgia. Our planned departure is on the 16th of February, when it's actually reading week. Over the next couple weeks, until we leave I hope to be able to post highly detailed, accurate, serious and not at all funny blog entries describing each of us who are planning on heading down there. This year, the blog will be different than last year, as opposed trying to be funny and lighthearted, the blog will be serious and only report the most uninteresting and highly uninteresting details of the trip. One exciting example to look forward to is an in depth description of how they cast the concrete in the interstate system we drive on while driving down there. So if you're looking for a fun to read blog, I'm afraid you're SOL this time. Not. Rest assured I will endeavor to be as entertaining and fun to read as an engineering student can be.

Anyway, we're all getting super excited to head on down the Waffle House express way, also known as I-75,  on the way down to the homeland of Honey Boo Boo. As a way to get ready for the trip, many of us were competing at the Canadian Indoor Rowing Championship yesterday, there is a link to a summarizing video below. Is there a video in the first blog post this year? Yes, yes there is - and should be many more to come during the trip, get excited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFn3t6RwVug