Lakeside Grad to Fight Again for U.S. Kayaking Competition Spot

Lakeside High School graduate and 2012 Olympic kayaker Tim Hornsby will fight this weekend to represent Team USA through the upcoming 2013 competition season.

Hornsby, 27, who graduated in 2004, is at the Oklahoma City Boathouse District, which is hosting the 2013 USA Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Team Trials on Friday and Saturday. The two-day competition will include racing events to select the Senior, Junior and Under-23 National Teams and will feature ParaCanoe racing, which will make its inaugural appearance at the Paralympic Games in Brazil in 2016.

The Team Trials will determine who will represent Team USA internationally this season, including the International Canoe Federation Sprint World Cups and Sprint World Championships. USA Canoe/Kayak previously held sprint national championships in Oklahoma City in 2008 and 2012 and held U.S. Olympic Trials for Flatwater Sprint in the city in 2008 and 2012.

Hornsby and Ryan Dolan of Hawaii will face off after battling for the lone men's sprint kayak slot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. Hornsby earned the spot in London, but the younger Dolan, 23, is eager to return to the water.

Read also:

• Hornsby Finishes 15th in First Olympic K1 200m Kayak Race
• Hornsby Places Eighth in Olympics' 200m Men's Kayak Single
• Lakeside Olympian on London Opening: 'Best Night Ever'