| The Mark Lowry Memorial
Sport Excellence Fund
“If we, as a country, wish to maintain
a competitive edge in the world of amateur sport,
we must do what it takes to allow our athletes to have the
very best
in all aspects of their training.” (Mark Lowry)
The Mark Lowry Memorial Sport Excellence Fund
was established by his family as a tribute to Mark Lowry,
the Canadian Olympic Committee's Executive Director of Sport,
who passed away on October 22, 2005. Our goal is to continue
Mark's dedication to the Canadian Olympic movement by providing
donations towards the development of key high-performance
initiatives.
The first Mark Lowry Memorial Sport Excellence grant was
given in 2006/07 to Rowing Canada Aviron.
Rowing Canada Aviron used the funding towards the set-up and
maintenance of the Mark Lowry Ergometer Centre, an indoor
training facility in Victoria, B.C., which provides national
team athletes and coaches access to a suitable indoor training
facility to allow them to continue to train at an optimum
level during the winter months.
Mark Lowry Ergometer Centre
The 2007/08 grant was provided to Dive Calgary
to establish the Mark Lowry Portable Dryland Training Area
and has added much-needed dry-boards, trampolines, mats and
resistance-training equipment to the training space currently
on-site for some of Canada’s top divers at the Talisman
Centre in Calgary.
Mark Lowry Portable Dryland Training Area
"As a family, we are strongly committed to fulfilling
Mark's dream of helping Canadian athletes reach the podium
at the Olympic Games,” says Jennifer Lowry, Mark’s
wife. “This is what we hope to accomplish with the money
raised each year at the Drive for the Podium Golf Tournament”
The primary source of funds for the Mark Lowry Sport Excellence
Fund is the Drive for the Podium Golf Tournament held in Ottawa
each year. Close to $100,000 has been raised by this tournament
in the three years that it has been held. Funding decisions
are made by the Lowry family based on recommendations from
high performance sport technical experts from the Canadian
Sport Review Panel and the Own the Podium program.
You can make a donation directly to the fund by sending a
cheque payable to the Canadian Olympic Committee (re the Mark
Lowry Sport Excellence Fund) to:
Canadian Olympic Committee
21 St. Clair Avenue E., Suite 900
Toronto, ON
M4T 1L9
The ability to make an online donation is under construction.
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