Continuing her climb through national and into international competition, Cascade Canoe & Kayak Racing Team’s 16 year old canoeist Andreea Ghizila emerged as one of the dominant woman canoeist in the United States this weekend. Competing in 6 events over the weekend, she placed in the top three in all her races and placed first in 2 events – C-1 (canoe one person) Women Senior 500m and C-1 Women 200m. She has again been selected to the US Team and will go on to represent the United States at the Junior World Championships in Romania in July.
Full results of the trials are posted on the Lake Lanier team web site and the complete team is listed at Team USA. Andy is pictured in the red Cascade jersey in the picture.

Congratulations to all the participants at 2017 edition of Race for the Cookies! Thank you for joining us. Here are the times:

The race!

The Cascade Canoe & Kayak Racing Team Race for the Cookies! is a 2 km plus one turn event primarily for International Canoe Federation sprint canoes and kayaks.  Other types of paddled craft may be included.  The annual date is the last Saturday in March.  The theme of this event is to build community and to start the race season.

The start is staggered, with one race starting every 30 seconds.  The start order will be seeded by the coaches approximately one hour prior to the start of the race.  The racers will be seeded with slower starting before faster.  Racer who complete the course will get their time and Cookies!

Race Course Site Plan

The Course

The course starts and finishes at the Blue Heron Landing Marina on the Sammamish River, 9025 Bothell

Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011. The course is circular, with one lap.  The start is at the Blue Heron Landing Marina, adjacent to the marina peninsula, between the golf course bridge and the marina entrance and the direction of the start is upstream.  A buoy will be placed in the river to mark the start and finish.  Those starting will line up keeping the buoy on their left.  Racers will paddle upstream 1000 meters.  A turn buoy will be placed at that point that racers will turn around counter clockwise, keeping the buoy on their left, and proceed downstream 1000m, taking them back to the Blue Heron and finish with the start/finish buoy to their left.

Marina Site Plan

Race Management Location

Race management will be conducted under a pop-up tent, on the marina peninsula, between the golf course bridge and the marina entrance, in line with the start/finish line.

Parking

Parking at the marina is very limited and the owners are touch about having too many paddlers park take up too much parking.  Depending on the ground condition, parking may be even more limited.  In 2017 the filed on the south east side of the property is water saturated, so we can’t drive in that area at all.  All driving will be confined to the paved drive and the gravel drive in front of the Cascade shipping containers.

Only three types of vehicles will be allowed to park in the marina.

1. Marina customers who store their boat or rent warehouse space may park in their normally designated parking space
2. Vehicles from clubs that are towing trailers may park in the gravel area in front of the shipping containers.  Pull straight in and park parallel to each other
3. Vehicles with disabled permits

Everyone else must park at another location, with the Red Brick Park being the closest.  Racers may drive into the marina and drop off gear and people, but they must then leave and park at an alternative location.

2 volunteers are needed to direct parking.  Duties included directing vehicles with trailers to their parking spots, directing vehicles with disabled permits to their parking spots, managing the vehicles with car top unloading or drop off, to unload and then park elsewhere.  1 parking volunteer will be stationed at the marina entrance to inform drivers of parking requirements.  The second will be stationed in the parking and unload area to direct those allowed to park to their locations and encourage those unloading and parking elsewhere to do so quickly.

Parking volunteers must be nice, but firm!

Staging

Boats can be staged on the peninsula lawn, or on any open space on the Cascade racks or trailers.

Fire

No fires are allowed at the Blue Heron Landing Marina

Race Management

Day of Race Schedule

7:30	course buoys will be set
8:00
8:30	entries open
9:00	entries close – coaches’ seeding meeting
9:30	pre-race meeting
9:45	Safety boats deploy to their position
10:00	start
12:00	last boats starts last leg of the race, safety boat removes upstream turn buoy and returns to Marina.
12:30	awards
1:00	all buoys removed

Permits

No permits are required for this event

Insurance

Liability Insurance is under USACK

The Mission Continues empowers post 9/11 veterans who are adjusting to life at home to find purpose through community impact. They deploy veterans on new missions in their communities, so that their actions will inspire future generations to serve. Since their founding, they have always been a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to bringing together veterans and innovative community organizations to create transformational change for communities in need all across the country. Their operations in cities nationwide deploy veteran volunteers alongside non-profit partners and community leaders to solve some of the most challenging issues facing our communities: improving community education resources, eliminating food deserts, mentoring at-risk youth and more. Through this unique model, veterans build new skills and networks that help them successfully reintegrate to life after the military while making long-term, sustainable transformations in communities and inspiring future generations to serve.

Our Fellow will be with us for 26 weeks and primarily help with outreach in veteran and general population disabled communities. S/he will also help with basic instruction (we will train) of our beginning Paracanoeists. The Mission Continues will provide a 3 day Fellowship Orientation program in Denver and a cost of living stipend during our Fellowship.

This is a great opportunity for a Post 9/11 veteran to continue to serve and help Cascade Canoe & Kayak Racing Team continue to build our Paracanoe program. It’s also an opportunity for Cascade to support the transition of a veteran to civilian life, connect with our paddling and Bothell communities, and be part of our Cascade family.
We’re responsible for finding our Fellow candidates, and would like to ask your help in finding our perfect match. Our candidate should love an active outdoor lifestyle be and a competent swimmer. We will train our Fellow in paddling and club level instruction, so no paddling experience is necessary. Our Fellow will be involved with outreach to veterans, disabled, and youth organizations in our area, so s/he must be mobile and comfortable with discussions on the telephone and in person. S/he and I will work closely together to share our program with our communities, attract new Paracanoeists, provide them with basic instruction, and help them with adaptations. Then I’ll continue as their primary coach as they prepare for regional, national, international or Paralympic competitions – whatever level they choose to pursue..
Here’s the Mission Continues website and more information about the fellowship: https://www.missioncontinues.org/fellowships/

Would you help us find our Fellow? If you know of a candidate, please help us get together. We need to get on this right away to meet the Mission Continues Bravo Class Fellowship schedule, check our contact page.

Thank you very much.
All the best,
Dan Henderson
Executive Director & Head Coach, Cascade Canoe & Kayak Racing Team
Assistant Coach, 2016 USA Paracanoe World Championship Team

 

Welcome to 2017. Here is the schedule for Cascade’s youth canoe beginner program for this year:

Session 1: May 2 – 27               Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-6:30, Saturdays 11:00-1:00

Session 2: Jun 5 – Jul 1             Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-6:30, Saturdays 11:00-1:00
Session 3: Jul 6 – 29                  Tuesdays, Thursday, Saturdays 11:00-1:00
Session 4: Aug 8 – Sep 2          Tuesdays, Thursday, Saturdays 11:00-1:00

See more on our youth program page …>