“Being able to train with your best friends creates a different kind of bond, one that can’t be forged in any other environment. There’s always the underlying acknowledgement that you are competitors and are trying to beat each other but at the same time you’re working together towards a common goal, just trying to be faster and stronger than you were yesterday. I particularly love the sport of canoe kayak because at the end of a race the first thing I get to do is say good job and ask how the race went for my competitor, there’s no ‘hating the other team purely because they’re the other team’. I experienced that even within international competition, which is something I think is pretty cool within the world of sport.” – Jillian Perrone, 2015 Junior Worlds Finalist, Senior National Team Canoer.
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