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Jack Lopas<br />
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GOLD: Little River’s Jack Lopas (left) and Whakatane crewmate Lenny Jenkins in<br />
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How many siblings do you have?<br />
I’ve got an older sister and three younger<br />
brothers. We are quite a big rugby family,<br />
all of my brothers made Ellesmere representative<br />
teams and two of them made<br />
Canterbury Country teams.<br />
Do you play rugby yourself?<br />
I used to play, last year was the first year<br />
since I was four that I haven’t played<br />
because I couldn’t due to juniors. I did<br />
miss it, I was watching all of my brothers’<br />
games. I was playing prop in the Boys’<br />
High 16As before I stopped playing.<br />
Training must take up a lot of your<br />
time, can you run me through the training<br />
you do?<br />
We probably do 10-12 trainings a week.<br />
We always have Sunday’s off. But we train<br />
most mornings and some afternoons we<br />
have two trainings. So we might do one<br />
gym session and one session on the water<br />
on an afternoon. You get into the swing<br />
of it. It’s a similar number of trainings<br />
to school rowing, but it’s just a lot more<br />
intense, and there is a bigger picture to it.<br />
And you go up and train in Cambridge<br />
leading up to the junior champs don’t<br />
you?<br />
After you get selected you come back<br />
down for two months and do your own<br />
training, then you go back up for two<br />
months for training. I was lucky because I<br />
had done it before, but you do miss being<br />
at home with your family and at school.<br />
And by the sound of your training<br />
schedule you will be eating your mum<br />
out of house and home, how much do you<br />
have to eat to fuel your body?<br />
She does notice the difference. But I have<br />
three brothers so they eat a lot too. You just<br />
have to chuck in more pasta and potatoes.<br />
Up north we would eat two breakfasts and<br />
a full lunch and a big dinner, then a couple<br />
of extra bits in the middle, like a banana<br />
and honey sandwich or something.<br />
So what about your double partner, did<br />
you know him before this year?<br />
I met him last year at Maadi, he beat<br />
me in all three of those events I got silver<br />
in. He was in juniors last year as well. But<br />
I versed him this year at Maadi and beat<br />
him in all three events and he got silver in<br />
all of them. So it was quite funny.<br />
What are your goals with rowing?<br />
I think one day I do want to compete at<br />
the Olympics but that’s quite a few years<br />
away and there’s a long road ahead.<br />
Where did you compete last year? You<br />
must have to do a fair bit of fundraising<br />
to get over there?<br />
It was in Rio last year. We did have to do<br />
fundraising, I had a Givealittle page. <strong>The</strong><br />
support I got from the Little River community<br />
was just so good. I came straight<br />
back from Rotterdam this year to get back<br />
to school.<br />
So you’re in your last year of school<br />
currently, have you decided what you will<br />
do when you finish?<br />
I think I’ll focus on this next rowing<br />
season, and make a decision then.<br />
And when you’re not rowing, or training<br />
or at school, what you like to do in<br />
your spare time?<br />
I do a lot of work for granddad in<br />
Clarkville, just helping him out. And<br />
hanging out with my brothers – I try to get<br />
to as much of their sport as I can, because<br />
they make it to mine. But between school<br />
and rowing, there’s not a lot of spare time.<br />
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