La Nacion / Nicole Martinez, the Paraguayan rower who teaches at Yale and dreams of a medal at ASU2022

Nicole Martinez, an elite Paraguayan rowing runner, is the first Paraguayan rower to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta, one of the world’s most important collegiate rowing championships. The competition was held in the United Kingdom where the player competed with a team from Yale University in the United States, for which she was awarded a scholarship. The young woman tells us about that experience and her expectations for ASU 2022.

Nicole Martinez is 19 years old and now number 7 in the world in the junior rankings. Among her many accomplishments, we can highlight her being the 2021 Champion Jr. Pan American, and 2021 Jr. South America, the 2019 South American Coastal Champion. She has been awarded a scholarship by the National Sports Trust (SND) and has also been awarded a Sports Scholarship at Yale University, USA where he is happy to pursue a career in Economics thanks to his high academic and athletic performance.

Recently, the young woman had the opportunity to compete in the UK as part of her university’s rowing team. The Henley Royal Regatta is a competition held annually on the River Thames in Henley-on-Thames, England. Held over five days in the first week of July, it is one of the most important regattas in the world of rowing. In this regard, Nicole stated that she was the first Paraguayan to compete in the event “and that was something very important to me and also being able to see the rowing idols competing, the Olympic medalists, it was an unbelievable thing,” she said. He added, “I feel that my level is growing a lot and the results show that as well. We went to compete in England where we reached the final.”

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He emphasized that rowing had already opened many doors for him, and that thanks to this sport he loved so much, he now had the opportunity to continue his university studies in the United States, at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. “It was a really wise decision to go and study there in the United States and it is a process that adds to my athletic career,” said the athlete, who is currently in Paraguay.

“Like Nicole, I appreciate the opportunity to study for 4 years, on a sports scholarship at Baylor Business, in the United States. It is a new challenge we are now facing at SND, to enable more athletes to go to the United States,” said Diego Galeano Harrison, Minister of Sports. In scholarships for training and training.

Young national rower Nicole Martinez (19) already has several international achievements: 2021 Jr. Pan American Champion and 2021 Jr. South American Champion and 2019 Coastal South America Champion.

Paraguay medal

Nicole will be one of the great national figures to be given a place in the XII Asunción 2022 Games in South America that will take place from October 1-15. With the approaching date of the largest sports festival held on the homeland, the athlete could not hide her emotions and spoke about the expectations surrounding the event.

“We are so excited to be competing and getting medals in Paraguay, and now we have a load of weeks of rowing with a new coach joining the team. We are really doing whatever it takes to put Paraguay on top at ASU2022.”

Nicole said she is now focusing more on team boats as she will be returning to her university in the US where she practices frequently. With that in mind, he makes use of time spent here in the country tech-intensive in team boats alongside his partner and also elite sports member Alejandra Alonso. He also stated that he would come later to compete in the quad.

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“International competitions are very helpful in preparing you for what is to come, and I have ASU2022 on my mind. In these international competitions, one can see very high levels of performance in other countries and that motivates you a lot and helps you grow,” he said.

He said the South American Games are important to Paraguayan sports and “because all the people are going to see you compete in the land you were born in and that’s something very special”.

Rowing has already opened many doors for Nicole. Today, he studies economics and masters his mathematics major at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

give fruit

Rowing was one of the sports that had impressive results, reflected in the number of medals won, at the recent Valledupar Games in Colombia, a fact that greatly pushed the team in this discipline. Although she couldn’t participate, Nicole said she was cheering on her teammates and teammates.

“Rowing is really paying off. I think thanks to all the support of the National Sports Secretariat and the Paraguayan Olympic Committee for Sports and Rowing among them. For ASU2022 we hope to achieve a lot of medals. In the female branch, we will present ourselves in different ways, and so will the men. We really wish to win with medals, and now the work we do in the water shows that the courses are working.”

She said the rower will return to her university in the United States and then return to the ASU 2022 Games in October in hopes of collecting medals in all the boats she competes in “because we’re doing our best.”

Nicole started rowing at the age of six thanks to her father. “I was really pleased to find a sport that allows you to connect with nature. I loved the atmosphere and feel like I can move around on the boat,” she said enthusiastically.

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One of his references in the sport is Oliver Seidler, a German rower and former swimmer. Likewise, she is very impressed with New Zealander Emma Twigg, also a medalist at the recent Tokyo Games. With both, he had the opportunity to share and see them in action at the recent UK Regatta.

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