Ridley College’s championship boat in the CSSRA senior women’s pair was anything but an overnight sensation.

“We did a really good job of working together and finding our rhythm. It took a long time but in the end it was worth it,” said Jade Postma, who combined with Talia Nixon to mine gold Sunday. “It was communicating with each other and knowing what each other wanted.”

Postma first started in the pair last fall. Last year, Nixon won silver in the CSSRA event with a different partner.

“It was quite a whirlwind, especially because she was training with someone else and I was the new person coming in to follow her,” Postma said.

The pair won bronze in the under-19 pair at last November’s National Rowing Championships.

“That was really great for us and that was the peak of our fall training. Through the winter, we are multi-sport athletes so we swam together during the winter and we didn’t spend as much time rowing,” Nixon said.

Both qualified for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships with Nixon winning gold in the 100-metre individual medley.

“Coming back into the spring, it was a little bit of picking up where we left off. Coming into sprints instead of head races, we needed to adjust, refocus, get back into it and see what we could do,” Nixon said.

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