Dolores Young

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 13th, 2014

Dolores Young began rowing in Brockville at the age of 17. She competed for Canada at the age of 19 in the Olympic Summer games in Montreal in 1976 and Los Angeles in 1984. Over a 10-year period from 1976 to 1986. She won rowing championships at every level from Provincial to Canadian to International.

Her coaching career began in 1985 in Brockville, but then she moved to Toronto to Winnipeg. She became the Executive Director of Rowing Manitoba and coached a Canadian team in International Regattas in 2002.

She has coached Championship Crews at the High School level in New Brunswick since 2005 and for the Province’s rowing teams at the Canada Summer Games in 2009 and 2013.