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28 February

Safeguarding & Protecting Children course: Scottish Rowing will be running a Safeguarding & Protecting Children course as part of the next Level 2 Course on the 17th March at 6pm. Sportscotland will be doing the course and there are 7 spaces available on a first come basis for club members - contact Jo Ramsay if you are interested. This is recommended for those in your club that spend a lot of their time working with Juniors.

Future Looking Bright For Scots On GB Pathways: Report from Lee Boucher:
An excellent fortnight for Scotland’s Great Britain team aspirants was concluded at the weekend with the GB Rowing Team Junior Trials held in Boston, Lincolnshire. On Saturday, in a strong field of 58 male scullers, Scotland proudly boasted 3 athletes in the top 15, with Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club’s Kieran Brown finishing in an impressive 3rd place in his first season trialling. Kirstin Allan, also of Clydesdale, was the top Scottish female sculler, finishing in 26th position. Scotland’s top juniors continued to flourish on Sunday, despite the overnight snowfall which brought about sub zero temperatures. George Watson’s College pupil, Callum McBrierty, rowing with Eton College’s Caspar Jopling, stormed the 5000 metre course to finish in 2nd place in the coxless pair. Brown, rowing with Glasgow Schools’ Gavin Murty, continued his good form with a 5th place finish in double sculls event.

At Dorney Lake in Buckinghamshire the previous weekend, Olympic silver medallist, Katherine Grainger, led the way as Scotland’s top senior athletes enjoyed a successful weekend at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials. Glasgow born Grainger, representing St Andrew Boat Club (Edinburgh), produced one of the stand out performances of the day, with a dominating victory in the women’s single scull.

Scottish based athletes were involved across each of the 5 categories with the lightweights enjoying the most success. Kelly Limond (Strathclyde Park RC), recorded a remarkable 2nd place in the A final of the women's lightweight single scull despite being under the weather with illness. Clyde's Imogen Walsh won the B final, posting a time which would have placed her third in the A final. Glasgow Rowing Club’s lightweight single sculler, Sam Scrimgeour, a student at Strathclyde University, finished 10th (4th – B final) in a competitive field won by Olympic gold medallist Zac Purchase. Two Scottish athletes currently training in England finished inside the top 10 in the men’s coxless pairs category. Leander Club’s Alan Sinclair (from Inverness) just pipped 2009 Junior World Champion, Andy Holmes (from Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire), finishing in 8 th place, less than half a second ahead of Holmes.

25 February

Clydesdale 4s and 8s Head of The River: The on-line system entry for this head is now up and running.

24 February

Inverness Eights and Small Boats Head Cancelled: For the first time in the twenty two years since running rowing events in Inverness began, it is with great regret that the organisers have to cancel this event due to weather conditions. At an inspection earlier today, the canal was unrowable with a covering of 2 inches of snow on top of a depth of over 2 inches of ice. According to recent weather forecasting, the prospects of the ice breaking up over the next few days are negligible.

22 February

Inverness Eights And Small Boats Head: Further information and the provisional draw are now available on the Inverness website.

Strathclyde University Small Boats Head: Results from Saturday's Head Race on the River Clyde are now available.

Clydesdale ARC Members Details: Clydesdale ARC is currently updating its membership database and would be pleased to hear from our current members, life members and foundation fellows who have either changed address or lost contact with us. We email monthly club newsletters to our active members and from time to time contact our members and friends to share our successes and notification of our annual general meeting. Please email your contact details to secretary@clydesdalearc.org.uk or write to Diana Worthy, Secretary, Clydesdale ARC, Clubhouse, The Weir, Glasgow Green, Glasgow, G1 5QA.

20 February

Clydesdale 4s and 8s Head of The River: Details for the Clydesdale 4s and 8s Head on 6th March can now be found on the Clydesdale website. Entries close on Sunday 28th February at 4pm. Please note that on-line entries only will be accepted this year. This will be going live within the next few days.

Lee Boucher Contact Details: Please note that Lee's mobile phone is not working at the moment, he can be contacted on 07983 613052 until further notice.

18 February

Anti-Doping Rules: New Anti-Doping Rules (and a covering letter) have been received from British Rowing who have responsibility for managing anti-doping measures as they run the GB international team. Copies have been emailed to club contacts from whom individual rowers can themselves obtain copies. These are also available from Jo Ramsay, Lee Boucher, Tom Hewitt and Ron Wallace..

17 February

Strathclyde University Small Boats Head: The provisional draw for SUBC Small Boats HORR is now available.

Inverness Eights And Small Boats Head: Reminder that the entries for the Head Race close at 6pm on Thursday 18th February. To help the organisers collate the entries, please use the spreadsheet available from www.invernessrowingclub.org.uk/events/Eights2010/. Please email entries to entries@invernessrowingclub.org.uk.

15 February

GB Trial: A summary of Scottish results from last weekends GB senior trials can be found here.

5 February

Licence Reminder: Competitors are reminded that a current Racing Licence is required AT TIME OF ENTRY to an event as noted in the Rules of Racing. The application form and notes can be found under 'Downloads' on this site and the form must be signed by the club contact or official who is certifying the correctness of the information. It should be noted also that Scottish registration is required when competing under the colours of a Scottish club, a British Rowing card is not acceptable unless competing for a British Rowing club.

Catering Tenders: The request for tenders for catering at the Strathclyde Park events in now on-line.

Western Eights Photographs: Can you note on the SARA website that pictures from Western Head 2010 are now up on David Nolan's flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/davidnolan4. Hi-res versions are available to anyone who wants them.

Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships 2010: Detailed information including competitors pace and stroke rate throughout their race is now available from the Concept2 website. The fastest individual times for 2km were posted by Callum McBrierty (George Watson's College) and Karen Bennett (Clydesdale ARC). Separate results for the Scottish Universities Championships are now also available along with the results of the Scottish Universities Victor Ludorum, which was retained by Heriot Watt University.

Scottish Rowing wishes to congratulate Matthias Auer of Clyde ARC on setting a new World Best Time of 2:29:56.7 for the Men's Lightweight Marathon and to thank the many competitors who travelled from throughout the UK and from as far afield as St Petersburg, Russia to compete. Photographs from the event are available at www.darrochphotography.ifp3.com and shortly at www.cofd.co.uk/

Boatshed at Strathclyde Park: As a result of housekeeping operations at Strathclyde Park the following items have been found in the Scottish Rowing storage area.

1. Bicycles, owners unknowm, some in bits. Would the owners please reclaim these and remove them as soon as possible please? They will remain in the shed until the Half-Yearly Meeting on 7th March. Thereafter they will be parked outside in the Scottish Rowing trailer. If they remain unclaimed by Sunday 28th March they will be dumped. If anyone has a (very) good reason for keeping their bike at the Park, please share it with Tom Hewitt and identify your machine to him.
2. A pair of Matt Wood sculling riggers. If unclaimed by the Half-Yearly, they too will be dumped.
3. A number of new bow balls suitable for attachment to wooden boats which have more pointy bows than plastic boats and therefore require a different bow ball. If anyone can use these, please contact Tom Hewitt or Jo Ramsay and they will be yours free of charge. If unclaimed by the Half-Yearly, they too will be dumped.

Universities Winter League: The current position of the Scottish Universities winter league, after 5 events and three to go are as listed. Strathclyde have managed to increase their lead slightly over Dundee, last year's winners. However both Glasgow and Edinburgh have closed the gap, with Glasgow jumping three places.

1. Strathclyde University		378		5. Heriot-Watt University		195
2. Dundee University		360		6. St Andrews University		122
3. Glasgow University		259		7. Aberdeen University		116
4. Edinburgh University		238		8. Robert Gordon University		26

2 February

Strathclyde University Small Boats Head: Entry details for the head race on the 20th February are now available.

1 February

Western 8s Head: Results from Saturday's race on the River Clyde, which was held in sunny, but very cold conditions. The fastest crews over the course were the Glasgow RC/Castle Semple RC/Glasgow University BC composite crew in the Men's Open division and the Glasgow RC/Glasgow University BC composite crew in the Women's Open division. Congratulations also to Aberdeen Boat Club, who won both the Men's and Women's Novice events.

Scottish Indoor Championships: Results from Sunday's erg champs can be found on the Concept 2 website.

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