Olympic Rowers Come Out to Support Heat Athletes
Scott Frandsen
Scott was born and raised in Kelowna, BC. He started his rowing career at age 16, at Brentwood College. Rowing quickly became apart of Scott’s educational experience at Brentwood and remained so during his four-year stint at the University of California, Berkeley.
In Scott’s freshman year at Berkeley, his crew finished second at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Championships, the national championship race for men’s collegiate rowing in the US. In 2000, 2001, and 2002, Scott was named to the Varsity men’s eight, which won the IRA Championships all three years. During Scott’s 2000 and 2001 seasons at Berkeley, his boats – considered by many to be the fastest collegiate boats ever – were undefeated.
In 2003, Scott attended Oxford University for graduate work and raced for the Oxford Blues in the prestigious Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, a race they won by the closest margin ever – one foot. That same year, Scott went on to row with Cambridge rival Wayne Pommen at the 2003
Rowing World Championships in Milan, taking sixth place in a hotly contested final of the coxless pairs event and only a few years later had become a major international competitor.
He commenced his Canadian national team rowing career in the under 23 men’s eight, winning two consecutive World Championship titles (2001 and 2002). In 2004, Scott won gold medals at World Cup races in Germany and Switzerland, and represented Canada in the men’s eight at the Athens Olympics, where he and his teammates battled to a fifth place finish.
Scott had top ten finishes at the 2005 and 2006 World Championships. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Scott won Canada’s first medal of the games – silver in the men’s pair with Dave Calder.
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