Wanganui rower Rebecca Scown, seen here on Thursday, was finally able to accept her plaudits in person at the 2013 Ray White Wanganui Sports Awards last night. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
Wanganui rower Rebecca Scown, seen here on Thursday, was finally able to accept her plaudits in person at the 2013 Ray White Wanganui Sports Awards last night. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
Wanganui rower Rebecca Scown was finally able to make a personal appearance on the dais when she accepted the accolade of being Wanganui Chronicle Supreme Award winner at the 2013 Ray White Wanganui Sports Awards last night.
As the 2011 and 2012 winner, the Olympic and World Championship medallist hasoften been away in some far-flung corner of the globe during awards season, but had been home on Thursday at the launch of the Future Champions Trust, of which she is the ambassador.
Scown again claimed the Gilbertson Mitre 10 Mega International Senior Sportsperson of the Year title.
She needed to head off a large field because a number of entrants to the national sportsperson category had been moved over to this grade.
In this rowing season just gone, Scown and new rowing partner Kayla Pratt won silver in the women's pair at the Rowing World Cup regatta 2 at Eton Dorney, in the United Kingdom, on June 21.
They followed that up with another silver at the Rowing World Cup regatta 3 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Finally in the separate World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea, the pair left with the bronze medal. That Scown continues her high level of success with the young Pratt after the retirement of her previous world championship-winning partner Juliet Drysdale (nee Haigh) is a testament to her ability.
The award winners were announced at the glamour dinner at the Wanganui Racecourse last night.
