Canoe Kayak Slalom trials are one of many big events coming to Deep Creek Lake

Deep Creek 2014 LLC will be helping run next weekend's USA Canoe Kayak Slalom Team Trials there, as well as the sport's world championships in 2014, marking the first time the championships will be held in Maryland since Garrett County hosted on the Savage River in 1989.

The USA Canoe Kayak Team Trials will be held Friday through Sunday, with a still to be determined number of finishers qualifying for spots on the 2013 World Cup team for the men's Canoe 1 and 2, men's Kayak 1 and 2 and the women's Canoe 1 and 2.
Next weekend's event will be intimate compared to the 1,500 competitors from more than 40 countries coming in September of 2014.
These two events will be the signature competitons being brought to the man-made canoe and kayak course at Deep Creek, which opened in 2007 and Copley said is the "solely recirculating mountaintop whitewater course" in the the country.
Along with the Canoe and Kayak competitions, Copley's company will be holding an open house and a few events geared to families and children throughtout the weekend as part of a lead up to the world championship, which he said will be the biggest "inbound sporting event in the U.S. next year."
While the "No. 1 goal is to produce the world championship", Copley said part of the future he envisions for Deep Creek Lake and the Wisp Resort is to attract adventure-sports enthusiasts from around the world.
Among the other upcoming events will be a U.S. Pro Cycling Mountain Bike Challenge, a national stand-up paddling championship and a 120-mile footrace.


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