Inverness Sprints: A reminder that the next event in the Scottish racing calendar is the Inverness Hawco Sprints on 16 August, the entry form can also be downloaded.
Events and Results: Two changes to the racing calendar. The Stirling RC Head, scheduled for 18 Ocotber has been cancelled. The Clydesdale Eights and Fours Head, which was cancelled due to weather conditions in March, has now been rescheduled for Saturday 22 November.
Holiday Time: There will be short break in website updates while the Webmaster is on her holidays!
28 July
HIR 2008 Report: The Webmaster's report from HIR is now available on the HIR 2008 page. Photos from the team photographer will also be following later in the week, and there will be a link from this page - if anyone else has any good pictures from the event, please do send them in. Full results with times and the points tally from the event are also available.
In brief, the team won 8 events, including 4 in the Junior's Mens match, and were second in a further 7 events.
27 July
Home International Regatta Results: Scottish crews excelled themselves at Saturday's event, winning the Junior Men's match and finishing second overall in the points match. Full results and a report will follow tomorrow.
World Junior and Senior Championships: Sean Dixon of George Watson's College has won silver in the GB Juniors Men's 4+ at the World Junior Championships in Linz, Austria. Of the other Scots racing at the event, Daniel Harte finished 6th in the B final in the Mens Lwt 2- and Sophie Hosking finished in 4th position in the Womens Lwt 4x.
Boating at London Heads: Scottish crews wishing to compete at one of the Tideway Heads (Pairs Head, Fours Head, Vet Fours Head, Women's Head, Schools Head, HORR and Vet's Head) are reminded that they should seek permission to boat from a host club prior to entering, and that entries secretaries do check with clubs prior to entering. Stan Livy, Captain of the Tideway Scullers School has written to let us know that Tideway Scullers would be delighted to host any Scottish crew for any of these races but asks if they could contact him beforehand to check they have space, especially for Fours Head. Stan's contact details are stan.livy [at] googlemail.com, mobile 07950 910699.
23 July
HIR 2008: The Home International Regatta takes place this Saturday in Cardiff Bay. Scotland will be represented in all but one event; the team list includes over 30 medalists from last weekend's National Championships. Further information on the event can be found on the Wales Rowing website.
22 July
Scots representing Great Britain: At the weekend a number of Scots were representing GB: Kirsty Myles (Oxford Brookes and formerly George Watsons College) won a Bronze medal in the Women's Coxless 4- at the World U23 Rowing Championships in Brandenburg in Germany;
Alistair Sarahs (George Watsons College) won Gold medals on both days at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Cork, Ireland, with partner Tom Edwards (Durham Schools BC); congratulations to both and to Jim Ferguson, their coach, who has had a major influence on both their rowing careers.
Also at the Coupe, Rosie Young (SPRC) won her spare WJ 2- race on Saturday. Due to an injury in the WJ 4- on Sunday, Rosie sat in the crew where she finished a creditable 4th in the "A" final.
Sean Dixon, also of George Watsons competes this weekend coming in Linz, Austria, at the Junior World Rowing Championships, stroking the Junior Men's coxed four.
Daniel Harte, formerly of George Heriot's School, will be racing in the GB Men's Lightweight Pair at the non-Olympic World Rowing Championships, also held in Linz, Austria, this weekend coming. Sophie Hosking, born in Edinburgh and now rowing for London Rowing Club, is competing at the same event in the Women's Lightweight Quadruple Scull. Sophie has a bronze medal in this event from 2006, and a silver from 2007, so will be hoping to go one better this time round.
21 July
Nat Champs Report: Holme Pierpont once again lived up to its windy reputation this weekend, with Friday bringing a stiff headwind and Saturday a particularly nasty cross-head wind, which appeared to make the conditions very difficult on the grandstand side of the course. Despite this a good number of Scots progressed to repechages, semi-finals and finals.
Photo: Iain Rice and Chris Logan of Glasgow University, winners of the silver medal in mens pairs.
First Scottish medal of the weekend went to Nithsdale ARC, with a silver in Womens J14 1x. Shortly afterwards, Clydesdale ARC added a bronze medal in Mens J15 2x.
Sunday morning brought a complete change, with excellent conditions for the pre-racing hours, which slowly reverted to a chilly cross-wind. Lanes were seeded for semi-finals and finals to take account of the wind conditions. It was a busy day from a Scottish perspective, with 16 junior crews racing in finals, and 18 seniors crews racing in finals for 13 events. The overall wins tally for the weekend was 24 medals, including golds in Womens 1x, Mens J16 2- and 2x and Womens J16 4+.
Photo: Andrew Holmes of George Watsons College, winner of the silver medal in MJ16 1x
Senior Medals
Photo: Fran Jacob of Glasgow RC, gold medalist in Womens 1x, with her gold medal and winners plaque
Gold
W 1x: Glasgow RC (Fran Jacob)
Silver
M 2-: Glasgow University BC (I Rice, C Logan) WU23 1x: Clyde ARC (Amanda Larcombe) WLwt 2-: Loughborough Students RC (L Pepper, R Hobson)
Bronze
WLwt 1x: Clyde ARC (Imogen Walsh) WLwt 2x: Clyde ARC (L Logan, C Gorton-Phillips) WLwt 2-: Clyde ARC (L Logan, C Gorton-Phillips) WLwt 4x: Clydesdale ARC/Strathclyde Park RC (F Borthwick, K Limond, E McCahill, M McGarvey) MU23 1x: Clydesdale ARC (Chris Rae) MLwt 1x: Clyde ARC (Roberto Usai) MLwt 4-: Strathclyde Park RC (D Shankland, J Barton, A Barton, F Quinn)
Other senior crews reaching finals included Aberdeen BC in Mens 2-, Clydesdale ARC (S Fowler) in WU23 1x and Clyde ARC (J Murphy) in Mens 1x.
Junior medals
Photo: George Heriots School WJ2-, winners of silver medals in WJ2- and WJ4+, with their coaches, Jim Wilkinson and Robin Collings.
Gold
WJ16 4+: ASRA (R Morton, C Bain, I Riley, J Steel, E Geddes) MJ16 2x: George Watsons College (J Scott, C Mabon) MJ16 2-: George Watsons College (C McBrierty, M Walker)
Silver
WJ 2-: George Heriots School RC (B McGreevy, N Sime) WJ 4+: George Heriots School RC (B McGreevy, N Sime, A Watt, I Young, E Whyte) WJ 4-: ASRA (R Morton, C Bain, I Riley, J Steel) WJ 4x: Strathclyde Park RC (J Campbell, N Irvine, S Arnold, C Santoni) WJ15 1x: Nithsdale ARC (R Findlay) MJ16 4+: George Watsons College BC (TBC) MJ16 1x: George Watsons College (A Holmes)
Bronze
WJ16 2x: Strathclyde Park RC (N Irvine, F O'Prey) WJ16 4x: Glasgow Academy/Strathclyde Park RC (E Colley, R Cranston, S Mcnee, F O'Prey) MJ15 2x: Clydesdale ARC (K Brown, G Gourlay)
In addition to these, crews reaching junior finals through the heats and time trials included MJ15 1x (Stirling RC), MJ14 2x (ASRA), MJ 1x (Newcastle University), MJ16 4x (Clydesdale ARC), MJ 4- (ASRA), WJ16 1x (Clydesdale ARC) and WJ 2x (SPRC).
All photographs J Wherrett.
16 July
ASRA at Valenciennes: As result of their success at the GB Under 16 Junior Trials on Wednesday 9 July at the National Watersports Centre, Nottingham, four girls from the Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association represented Great Britain at the annual GB v France Match in Valenciennes on Sunday 13 July. Rowing with girls from the prestigious Lady Eleanor Holles School, London, Rosie Morton (Robert Gordon's College), Catriona Bain (Aberdeen Grammar School), Iona Riley (Hazlehead Academy) and Jamie Steel (Harlaw Academy) made up the stroke four in the GB Eight. On the day, the ASRA/LEH composite put up a magnificent performance, rowing stroke for stroke with the French Eight for most of the 1500 metres. They faded however in the last 200 metres sprint to the line and ended up three quarters of a length down on the French in the end. The next time the ASRA quartet will meet up with their erstwhile GB teammates from LEH will be in the heats of the WJ16 Coxed Fours at the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain in Nottingham on Friday!
Nat Champs: Good luck to all crews competing at Nat Champs this weekend. Results and report from Nat Champs will be posted on Monday - in the meantime, the live on-line results will be available at res.natchamps.org.uk.
Veteran Henley: Six Scots from Strathclyde Park RC and George Watsons College BC took part at Veteran Henley this weekend, in conditions which started off wet and windy on the Friday, with a strong stream and head wind, but improved on the Saturday. The Men's Veteran Double of Tom Hewitt (SPRC) and John Munro (GWCBC) raced in both E2x and F2x, making it to the semi-final of the lower age category.
The Women's Veteran Quad of Liz Davidson, Ailie Ord, Maureen McGarvey and Karen Barton competed in both B4x and C4x. Reaching the final of B4x by 3 lenghts of Sons of the Thames, the crew raced a crew which included 3 members of the loosing finalists in the same event at Henley Royal Regatta! Depsite a fast sart, they were unable to stay with this fast crew from Upper Thames. In the final of C4x, which was reaching via a close semi-final against an Upper Thames/London composite crew, the SPRC quad won a tight race, beating Cantabrigian by just a third of a length.
Photographs: The SPRC Women's Veteran Quad racing and with their medals. Photos courtesy of Gill Williamson.
12 July
GB Junior Selection: Following four days of final GB trials at Nottingham for selection to the World Junior and Coupe squads, three Scottish rowers, Sean Dixon and Alistair Sarahs, both from George Watson’s College BC, and Rosie Young from Strathclyde Park RC gained selection. Sean will race in Ottensheim, Austria as part of the MJ4- crew at the World Junior Championships, Alistair will race in Cork, Ireland as part of the MJ2- crew at the Coupe de la Jeunesse, being held next weekend and Rosie will be the spare rower for the junior women's team at the Coupe. Congratulations to all athletes and their coaches, Jim Ferguson and Peter Barton, on a great achievement.
Also racing next weekend is Kirsty Myles, ex-George Watsons College, who has been selected to represent GB in the World U23 Championships in Germany, having won the Elite 4- event at Women's Henley last month.
Rowing Action call for material: A new project team has come together to produce the next edition of ‘Rowing Action’. It is planned that that this new on-line version will be available early in the sprint season. Contributions – words and/or pictures – are very welcome, by the end of July please, to mike.haggerty@ntlworld.com
10 July
National Championships: The draw for Nat Champs is now available on the Nat Champs website. Over 70 crews from 14 Scottish clubs are taking part in the event, which starts on Friday 18th July in Nottingham.
Scottish Championships Medals: The lack of medals was a huge embarrassment to the Regatta Organising Committee and they apologise for the disappointment of all this year’s Scottish Rowing Champions. Despite vigorous efforts to resolve the matter, there is a supply issue outwith their control. The latest news is that they expect delivery during the first week of August and will then arrange to have the medals sent out to the clubs. Any further developments will be posted on this news page.
7 July
J16 Early Identification Camp: It is the intention of the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association to relaunch the Junior 16 Early Identification Camp in the Autumn at the National Rowing Academy, Strathclyde Park. The provisional dates for the camp are 25/26 October and it is hoped that an array of experienced guest coaches and speakers will provide a range of valuable coaching sessions and interesting talks. The camp is open to any Scottish Junior 16's (and talented Junior 15's with prior approval from the High Performance Co-Ordinator), male and female. For 2008 only, the camp will also be open to Junior 18's provided they are seeking selection for HIR as a minimum standard.
It is hoped that a full itinery will be available in due course but interested parties are asked to express an interest to Lee Boucher, High Performance Co-Ordinator, by the 31st July so as arrangements can be made.
Nithsdale Regatta Photographs: There are photos of crews from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England who were at Nithsdale Regatta online at the Clyde Rowing Gallery.
Henley Royal Regatta: Congratulations to Murray Wilkocj and Colin Williamson, who have won at Henley Royal Regatta in their respective crews.
5 July
Henley Royal Regatta: In today's semi-finals, Glasgow University, the last of the Scottish crews racing, lost out to Newcastle University in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup. However, two Scots will be racing tomorrow; Murray Wilkocj in the Newcastle University crew and Colin Williamson, who is rowing in the 6 seat of the Leander 8 in the final of the Ladies Challenge Plate.
2 July
Henley Royal Regatta: Two Scots crews were racing today in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup (Student M4+). Edinburgh University went through against AASR Skoll this morning and Glasgow University went through later this afternoon against First & Third Boat Club, Cambridge. They are due to race each other in the next round, which takes place tomorrow. Other Scots racing at Henley include Fran Jacob of Glasgow Rowing Club in the Princess Royal Challenge Cup, which starts on Friday, ex-Aberdonians, Colin Williamson and Alan Sinclair, racing for Leander in the Ladies Challenge and Vistors' Challenge Cups respectively and Murray Wilkocj, ex-George Watson's College, rowing with Newcastle University in the Prince Albert Cup.
1 July
Level 2 Coaching Course in Aberdeen: The SARA will be running a "UKCC Level 2 Coaching in Rowing" course on the 30/31 August and 6/7 September, hosted in Aberdeen by Aberdeen Boat Club. An additional assessment day will be arranged with candidates during the course. Due to the need to register with the ARA and 1st4Sport (the cross sport accreditation organisation) it is important that anyone wishing to take part on the course completes an application form and forwards the course fee before the deadline of Monday 21 July. There is pre-course work that needs to be completed by each candidate and materials that need to be ordered in advance, therefore anyone missing this deadline will not be able to attend the course.
The course fee is £265 (£195 of which is the course fee including all materials, levied by the ARA). SARA members coaching in Scotland successfully completing the course will be eligible for completion grants. All forms and fees should be sent to Jo Ramsay at the National Rowing Academy, 366 Hamilton Road, Motherwell ML1 3ED. Please mark your envelope with "UKCC Level 2". Enquires should be made to graeme.cunningham@scottish-rowing.org.uk.
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Nat Champs Report: Holme Pierpont once again lived up to its windy reputation this weekend, with Friday bringing a stiff headwind and Saturday a particularly nasty cross-head wind, which appeared to make the conditions very difficult on the grandstand side of the course. Despite this a good number of Scots progressed to repechages, semi-finals and finals.
Veteran Henley: Six Scots from Strathclyde Park RC and George Watsons College BC took part at Veteran Henley this weekend, in conditions which started off wet and windy on the Friday, with a strong stream and head wind, but improved on the Saturday. The Men's Veteran Double of Tom Hewitt (SPRC) and John Munro (GWCBC) raced in both E2x and F2x, making it to the semi-final of the lower age category.
