MEDIA RELEASES

February 5, 2007

Montgomery and Bell Awarded Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarships

Triathlete Willie Bell of Lockport and Adaptive Rower Meghan Montgomery of Winnipeg have been selected as this year's recipients of the Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarship.

The 19-year old Bell was a member of the Canadian Junior National Triathlon and Duathlon Teams in 2006 and placed 6th at Junior World Duathlon Championships. He was also a CIS Academic All-Canadian in Track and Field. Bell is in his 2nd year in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba where he is and Honours student pursuing pre-med studies with a GPA of 4.36.

A member of the National Adapted Rowing Team, the 25-year old Montgomery, in her first international competition, was a member of LTA coxed 4 that won a bronze medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Elton, England. Meghan attends the University of Manitoba where she was on the Dean’s Honour Role list in the Faculty of Education in 2006 and has a 3.72 academic average.

The Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarship Endowment Fund provides two annual scholarships of $3000 each to a male and female high performance athlete enrolled in a post secondary institution in Manitoba. Selection is based on an athlete's sport and academic standing.

The Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarship was established as a legacy of the 1999 Pan American Games to provide financial support for Manitoba's high performance athletes while commemorating the Manitoba visit of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal in 1999. The scholarship is administered by Sport Manitoba.

- 30 -

For more information, contact:

Barry Moroz
Sport Manitoba Communications
925-5903
Email