A YOUNG Evesham rower has been selected for the fast track programme onto the Great Britain team.

Yasmin Tredell was talent spotted by her coaches at the club and put forward for World Class Start, a training programme for the most talented rowers in the country.

The 15-year-old joined Evesham Rowing Club around 18 months ago and won a National Championship bronze medal in the WJ14 single sculls event last summer.

Earlier this year, the Prince Henry's High School pupil was assessed by the World Class Start coaches from the Amateur Rowing Association and then put through a range of endurance tests on rowing and cycling machines as well as strength tests in the weights room. The teenager passed with flying colours.

World Class Start was introduced to this country in 2002 with the aim of identifying the best rowers in the country with the potential to compete at international level.

Tredell will continue her rowing at Evesham under the guidance of top junior coach Norman Baldwin who has years of experience of coaching junior athletes to national and international level.

She will also attend around nine World Class Start camps a year where she will train with elite young rowers from around the country.

The camps offer a programme of water training, indoor rowing, gym work as well as lectures on nutrition and sports psychology.