Rheagan Hamm’s journey to become an NCAA Division 1 scholarship rower at Monmouth started well before she arrived at Denis Morris for her Grade 9 year.
She attended a St. Catharines Rowing Club camp the summer before Grade 9 and Denis Morris coach Richard Moreau also took her out in a single that summer. Moreau knew her brother, former DM rower Richard Hamm.
“We had a decent connection with him and I mentioned that I wanted to start rowing and he decided to get me started in my rowing career.”
It was the beginning of what has already been a great career for the Grade 12 student at Denis Morris.
The 18-year-old Thorold native’s rowing resume includes: golds in the under-17 women’s double at the 2023 Stotesbury Cup and Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association championships; first place in the junior women’s open double at the 2024 Scholastic Rowing Association of America championships; third-and fourth-place results at Canadian Henley; gold at the Ontario ergometer championships; and, silver in the under-17 women’s open single at the 2023 RowOntario championships.
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