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24 February |
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Clydesdale Head: The draw and information for competitors for Saturday's Eights and Fours Head are now available.
Aberdeen Head: Details for the rescheduled Aberdeen Head of the River for Senior 8s and Junior 4s on 14th March are now on the Committee of the Dee website - http://cofd.co.uk. Please note that the organisers have modified the event list to promote Junior racing in Fours and Quads, with the Scottish Schools Head not far away. Senior events for Eights are unchanged.
Inverness 8s and Small Boat Head: Mild but windy weather (thankfully a tailwind for racing) at the Inverness Eights and Small Boats Head on Saturday. Snapper Ron has published pictures from Division 2 on the Committee of the Dee website http://cofd.co.uk. Full results are available on this website.
GB Trials: The past 2 weekends have seen Scottish athletes competing south of the border in Boston, Lincolnshire at open trials for the GB Rowing Teams. On the 14th February, at the Senior and Under 23 Trials, due to a number of illnesses only 4 Scottish athletes took part. The highlight was the return of Katherine Grainger to the fold after her extended break following the Beijing Olympics. Despite her long break, Katherine showed her usual determination and finished in a credible 7th position, less than 8 seconds off the leader Beth Rodford.
The weekend past saw athletes from Aberdeen Schools, George Heriots School, George Watsons College, Glasgow Schools and Strathclyde Park compete over 2 days at the 2nd GB Junior Long Distance Trial. The top Scottish performer was Andrew Holmes of George Watsons College in Edinburgh, who had an excellent weekend finishing in 2nd place on Saturday (out of 43 crews) and 4th on Sunday in a scratch combination.
Great Britain Junior Time Trials: Last weekend, Scots athletes from George Watsons College Boat Club, Strathclyde Park Rowing Club, Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association and George Heriots School performed to a high standard at the GB Junior Trials at Boston, Lincolnshire. In Division 1 on Saturday, SPRC single scullers Rosie Young and Natalie Irvine finished in 24th and 46th positions respectively, Emma McCahill from Glasgow Schools RC claimed 44th place with ASRA athletes Iona Riley, Rosie Morton, Catriona Bain and Jamie Steel close behind in 48th, 52nd, 53rd and 58th positions respectively. Becky McCreevy from George Heriots finished in 60th place.
Division 2 on Saturday saw an outstanding performance by George Watsons BC athlete Andrew Holmes, paired with Tom Edwards from Durham School, who claimed second place in a high quality field. Other George Watsons athletes produced fine results finishing in 20th and 21st places. George Heriots sculler Jack Leask finished in 17th place in the single sculls category of Division 2.
In Sunday's event, Jack Leask joined Christopher Thomas (QPHS) to claim 8th place in the double sculls. Andrew Holmes again produced an outstanding row in the coxless pairs event, this time with Stewart Innes (SES) to claim 4th place, followed in 13th place by Calum McBrierty and James Scott (Shrewsberry). In the womens coxless pairs category, Aberdeen Schools Rosie Morton and Jamie Steel finished in 12th place, ahead of Strathclyde Park's Rosie Young and Natalie Irvine in 13th place, Becky McCreevy (George Heriots) and Isobel Currie (Headington) in 16th place and Iona Riley and Catriona Bain (ASRA) in 17th place.
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19 February |
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Closing Dates for Entries: Reminder that the Head of the River Race, aka Men's Tideway, closes on Friday at 5pm and that the Clydesdale 4s and 8s Head closed on Sunday at 4pm.
Women's Tideway: The draw for the Women's Eights Head of the River is now available - www.wehorr.org/draw.htm. Seven Scottish crews are racing, including crews from Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, Clydesdale ARC and a Clyde/GRC/EUBC/GUBC composite.
Inverness Eights and Small Boats Head: Essential information for competitors and a map of the course have been put on-line. Please make sure you have read the information before boating.
Strathclyde University Head Photographs: Pictures from the Strathclyde University Small Boats Head are now up on David Nolan's Flickr page.
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2 February |
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Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships: On Sunday 1st February, a significant entry was received and many exciting races took place at the Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships which again were held at Heriot Watt University campus at Riccarton. Jonathan Adams (Clydesdale ARC) produced the fastest time of the day in winning the Mens Open Heavyweight event in 6 mins 10.6 sec whilst his clubmate Karen Bennet recorded the fastest time of 7 mins 13.1 secs to win the equivalent Womens Open event in a nail biting finish just over one second ahead of Jen Reid of Edinburgh University BC.
The boys and girls Under 19 heavyweight events both produced the most exciting and closest finishes of the championships. In each event, the winners came from behind to clinch success with their last few strokes, Rosie Young of Strathclyde Park RC by just 0.4 seconds over her clubmate Natalie Irvine and Claire McKeown (Clydesdale ARC) in a winning time of 7 mins 23.3 secs in the girls event. In the boys event, Andrew Holmes (George Watsons College BC) pushed past four opponents in the last 150 metres to win by 0.4 secs in a time of 6 mins 22.7 seconds with Craig Colquhoun (Clydesdale ARC) holding onto second place ahead of his clubmate Ross Irvine and Alastair Sarahs (George Watsons College BC).
Photograph: Happy medallists at the Scottish Indoor Championships in Mens Open Heavyweight - Chris Rae (silver) and Jonathan Adams (gold), both from Clydesdale ARC with Alan Holmes (bronze) from Castle Semple RC. Photo courtesy of Roy Sinclair.
Glasgow Western Head Photographs: More photographs from the Western Eights Head are on-line on David Nolan's Flickr page.
Strathclyde Park: Please note that there will be changes to the cost of using the water at Strathclyde Park from March 1st. Further details on the NRA Fleet page.
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Women's Henley winners run Barcelona Marathon: Most crews have reunions on the water - but the GUBC Lwt 4- (Women's Henley winners in 2004) are running the Barcelona Marathon together. Louisa Harpur, Lucy Downie , Rebecca Quane and Siobhan Sullivan (nee Mulligan) (pictured here with their coach Mike Foster) are running the Marathon on Sunday 
SUBC Small Boats Head:
The Strathclyde University Small Boats Head was held on Saturday 14th February on the 4000m course on the River Clyde in calm, bright conditions with a light stream running. Fastest crews were Clydesdale ARC (Phillips) in Mens Vet A 2- in division 1 and Clydesdale ARC (Gourlay) in Open J18 2x in division 2. Clydesdale ARC also had a clean sweep in single sculls with Jack Leask winning the Open J18 event, Sam Fowler and Andrew McConnell winning the Womens and Mens Open events respectively. Full results are available in pdf format - 
Sadly, the Aberdeen Eights HOR had to be cancelled on the day after overnight temperatures plummeted (down to -8 deg C in Oldmeldrum) causing the river to freeze. I had been out in my single scull at 2pm on Saturday and conditions were fine. The above picture shows the beautiful blue skies and flat calm on Sunday morning; it's just a shame about the ice-floes !
Scottish Rowing Newsletter: The first edition of the 
