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Bringing new perspectives and fresh ideas, up and coming paddlers help keep our sport growing and evolving. In this column Rush Sturges catches up with some of kayaking’s most exciting young stars…

By Rush Sturges by Rush Sturges

Eighteen-year old Rowan Stuart proved this season that she is not only a top-level junior competitor, but also a force to be reckoned with in the women’s division. This 2013 Junior World Champion spent her year traveling around the freestyle circuit in the United States and Europe. Rowan took 3rd at the GoPro Mountain Games, 3rd again at the highly competitive Payette River Games, and 2nd in the Junior Women’s World Cup. Expanding her focus beyond playboating, she recently moved to Asheville, North Carolina where she will be practicing her creek boating game on the famed Green River Narrows. It seems like a big year for you. Give me a run down on what you’ve been up to recently. I left the southeast in late May,…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, KS#52 (winter 2014)

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