Rowing Ireland announces pathway programme link-up with NUI Galway

There has been a boost for rowing at NUI Galway this week after the university announced a new partnership with Rowing Ireland which sees it designated as a Rowing Ireland Partner Pathway University.

The director of sport at the university, Mike Heskin, has welcomed the announcement, and says it is hopefully just the first of many high-performance programmes that sport governing bodies will base at the university.

The link announced with Rowing Ireland this week will see NUI Galway become a so-called ‘Pathway University’, to develop talented pathway athletes for international selection at U-23 and eventually Olympic level.

In addition to this, the partnership will provide value to NUI Galway coaches as Rowing Ireland help to upskill these coaches to improve the rowing programme on campus. This will in turn increase the number of NUI Galway athletes on the national squad.

“The university has been developing partnerships with a number of the high-performance sport programmes in Ireland involving both domestic and Olympic sports,” said Heskin, the Director of Sport and Physical Activity at NUI Galway.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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