Nineteen-year-old Petri Alva’s favorite sprint-kayaking event is the 500 meter.
“It’s just a fantastic race because it combines speed and endurance in a really challenging way,” he said. He laughed and added, “It’s about 90 seconds of all-out pain.”
That’s the positive attitude shared by both Petri and his twenty-five-year-old brother, Zachary Alva. They are kayakers who train to compete in sprinting events at the senior national and world levels.
Their hard work has paid off. Both brothers qualified to compete in the World Cup 1 in Szeged, Hungary this last May and in the upcoming national championships in Sarasota, Florida, in August….