The World Rowing Under 19 championships began in Lithuania on Wednesday and our girl is there. Ōmārama's Sadie Mason, who was selected for the New Zealand team in April after a successful season of secondary school rowing, will have her first race on Thursday at 8.50pm New Zealand time. Yesterday, excited mum Kay Mason, who along with the rest of the family has remained at home, said for the past six weeks Sadie had been "living the athlete's life at Lake Karapiro". “She has been training hard and squeezing schoolwork in between.” Before leaving for Europe the team were presented... >>> continue reading <<<