This Wednesday, April 12, the ALECA team leaves for Minas Gerais to participate in the first event of the 2023 canoeing speed season: the Copa Brasil and the National Control. The competition will take place from April 13th to 16th in Capitólio (MG), where five ALECA athletes will compete in the junior and senior, male and female categories.
The coordinator of the Canoeing at School Project, Daniela Maioli, and coach Luis Marcelo Carneiro will accompany the athletes Richard Alves, Nadine Cunha, Herick Rafaelli, Rauany Gomes and Giovana Rocha. The event is part of the competitions that will define the 1st Ranking of Canoeing Speed, adding the points of the 1st and 2nd Stages of the Copa Brasil, together with the points of the Brazilian Championship of the year 2023, in all categories / female and male in individual boats of Olympic distances.
The Copa Brasil and the National Control of Canoeing Speed is carried out by the Brazilian Canoeing Confederation – CBCa with the support of the Municipality of Capitólio and the Minas Gerais Canoeing Federation – FMC. In total, 200 athletes confirmed their presence and will participate in the events in the following categories: children, minors, cadets, juniors and seniors and masters, male and female, in canoe and kayak, with distances of 1000, 500 and 200 meters.
History of Canoeing in São Leopoldo
Developed by the Municipality of São Leopoldo, through the Municipal Department of Education (Smed), the Canoeing at School Project serves students from the public school system. The project emerged in the second half of 2005, with the aim of filling the free time of children and adolescents who bathed in the river. From 2006, Daniela took over the coordination and gave the character of a canoeing school. The condition to continue paddling in the project was to maintain good grades and good behavior.
From 2008, the project started participating in competitions within the state. In 2009, training intensified and, in the following year, they played their first national championship. To regulate the team in competitions, the Leopoldense Association of Ecology and Canoeing (Aleca) was created in 2011.
Currently, the team of teachers and coordination is made up of eight people who help with training in and out of the water. The Canoagem project serves 170 students from the municipal network, with activities from Monday to Thursday, in the morning and afternoon shifts, after school hours. already the Alice, has five athletes, plus 12 students in the base category. During the project, athletes train two days a week. After joining Aleca, they train five days a week.
This Wednesday, April 12, the ALECA team leaves for Minas Gerais to participate in the first event of the 2023 canoeing speed season: the Copa Brasil and the National Control. The competition will take place from April 13th to 16th in Capitólio (MG), where five ALECA athletes will compete in the junior and senior, male and female categories.
The coordinator of the Canoeing at School Project, Daniela Maioli, and coach Luis Marcelo Carneiro will accompany the athletes Richard Alves, Nadine Cunha, Herick Rafaelli, Rauany Gomes and Giovana Rocha. The event is part of the competitions that will define the 1st Ranking of Canoeing Speed, adding the points of the 1st and 2nd Stages of the Copa Brasil, together with the points of the Brazilian Championship of the year 2023, in all categories / female and male in individual boats of Olympic distances.
The Copa Brasil and the National Control of Canoeing Speed is carried out by the Brazilian Canoeing Confederation – CBCa with the support of the Municipality of Capitólio and the Minas Gerais Canoeing Federation – FMC. In total, 200 athletes confirmed their presence and will participate in the events in the following categories: children, minors, cadets, juniors and seniors and masters, male and female, in canoe and kayak, with distances of 1000, 500 and 200 meters.
History of Canoeing in São Leopoldo
Developed by the Municipality of São Leopoldo, through the Municipal Department of Education (Smed), the Canoeing at School Project serves students from the public school system. The project emerged in the second half of 2005, with the aim of filling the free time of children and adolescents who bathed in the river. From 2006, Daniela took over the coordination and gave the character of a canoeing school. The condition to continue paddling in the project was to maintain good grades and good behavior.
From 2008, the project started participating in competitions within the state. In 2009, training intensified and, in the following year, they played their first national championship. To regulate the team in competitions, the Leopoldense Association of Ecology and Canoeing (Aleca) was created in 2011.
Currently, the team of teachers and coordination is made up of eight people who help with training in and out of the water. The Canoagem project serves 170 students from the municipal network, with activities from Monday to Thursday, in the morning and afternoon shifts, after school hours. already the Alice, has five athletes, plus 12 students in the base category. During the project, athletes train two days a week. After joining Aleca, they train five days a week.
