Calleva River Team

Kaelin Friedenson is a whitewater kayaker from Washington DC. He grew up on the banks of the Potomac River, where he learned to roll, did his first loop, and honed his skills into what they are today. His Dad, also a whitewater kayaker, introduced him to the sport at a very young age. They swam in the river, jumped off rocks, and Kaelin even rode on the back of his boat when he just a year old. When he turned 4, his Dad got him his own boat, and that's when it got really fun. Some of his greatest accomplishments include a final in Unleashed Uganda X when he was 14, in 2021 he won every junior event he entered when he was 18 including the Russell Fork Race, Green Race, Great Falls Race, and the ICF Junior World Championship in Slovenia for Kayak Cross. In that same year, he won the Grom of the Year award by Whitewater Awards. The next 3 years he was voted U21 paddler of the year (2021, 2022, 2023) by Kayak Session Magazine. In 2022 he finished 3rd at NFC and in 2023 he tied with Pat Keller for the youngest person ever to win The Green River Narrows Race at 20 years old.

Sofía Reinoso is a Mexican kayaker who has competed at the international level since 2013. She lives in Tlapacoyan, Mexico and is coached by Silvan Poberaj. Sofi won bronze medals in the K1 and Extreme K1 events at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. By doing this she became the first slalom paddler representing Mexico to win a medal at the Pan American Games. In 2015, she competed in the K1 event at the 2015 Pan American Games without winning a medal. In 2020, Reinoso won a bronze medal in the Extreme K1 event at the 2020 Canoe Slalom World Cup in Pau, the first canoe slalom medal for Mexico at an ICF event. She earned her best senior world championship result, of 51st, at the 2014 event at Deep Creek. Mexico was allocated the Pan American Olympic quota for women's K1 following the cancellation of the continental championships, with it allocated to the NOC with the highest-ranked eligible athlete. Reinoso represented Mexico in the K1 event at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.