| Women's Henley starts
tomorrow (Friday) with a fine crop of Scottish entries (in club
8s, college 8s, college 4+, lwt 2x and 1x, and junior 4x that I
have found). The full entry list (by event) and race timetable (by
day) are now on the Women's Henley
web site, where the results are due to come up daily or more
frequently.
Rowers on Radio: you can listen on line to last
Saturday's John Beattie's Sports Weekly, on which studio guests
were Drew Hendry and Andrew Shannon (Aberdeen BC) talking about
Scottish Championships, their hopes for Henley, the National Rowing
Academy, etc. The listen again section is in the BBC Scotland part
of the BBC web site.
18 June
Nithsdale Regatta draw for this weekend is now up: a 'tri-national'
entry from England Scotland and Ireland, no less!
National Rowing Championships of Great Britain: the on line entry
system for this year has now gone 'live'. Full information on the
regatta, with rules, events, etc., and the on line entry system
(postal system also available) are on the Championships web site.
The Championships are at Nottingham on 19-21 July: entries close
at 10.00 am on 9th July.
Correction: apologies to Clare Haley and Fiona Insch (Aberdeen BC),
whose win in women's coxless pairs at the Championships I overlooked.
Also it was Alexandra, not Castle Semple, who were the third club
represented in the winning women's 'big boats'. It had been a long
weekend!Scottish Rowing Championships & Scottish Schools Championships
15-16 June
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Inverness
RC had a successful Scottish Championships, taking 5 winners
medals including this one in Men's Vet C 4+ (James McLardy,
Iain Morton, Brian Bell, Tom Baker, cox Suzanne Hunter). |
Results - Saturday
and Sunday
The Scottish and Scottish Schools Rowing Championships at Strathclyde
Park this weekend enjoyed good weather, which allowed some excellent
racing. One 'attraction' was the return of Peter Haining, winner (with
Martin Harris) of Men's 2- and (with Harris and 6 Aberdeen University
students) of Men's 8. Another AUBC member, Gavin Shaw, was probably
not too unhappy that Peter did not enter Lightweight Sculls, the event
in which he won the World Championships 3 times in the 1990s: Shaw
won. The Aberdeen BC 'heavies' (fortified by the hospitality of their
sponsors, Specially Selected Scottish Pork, who had hired the marquee
fro the day?) won men's coxed and coxless fours. Women's open sweep
events were dominated by the Clydesdale/Castle Semple/St Andrew composites.
Junior and Scottish Schools events found a welcome variety of homes
to go to: good to see names like Johnstone High and Portobello High
schools joining the more established junior winners like Heriots,
Watson's and co. Full results from Saturday and Sunday are here.
Many thanks again to all who volunteered in whatever capacity
to support the regatta: the entries and draw teams, catering and
bar staff, stake boat teams, umpires, the regatta doctor, entries
caravan staff, commentators - everybody. The Championships seemed
to run smoothly.
14 June
The Regatta Volunteer Rota is now here: apologies for the delay
- I spent half the day watching someone fit the towbar to the hire
van I was to tow ABC's boats down with.
Scottish Rowing Championships. Competitors please note that a full
boating slip system will be in operation at this year's Championships:
crews must 'check in' at the yellow control caravan at least an
hour before their first race. You will be asked to confirm at that
time that the members of the crew which will row are the same as
those on the entry form. If you are making substitutions before
the first race in your event, you MUST ensure these are recorded
on the boating slip when you check in: failure to do so is a disqualification
offence under the rules of racing. Checks may be made by umpires
at any time (e.g. as you boat for your race or as you return after
your race).
When you get your regatta programme, check the circulation pattern.
A Scottish club crew racing at a multi-lane regatta in England recently
had their boat neatly ripped open from bow-ball to bow's rigger
in a head-on collision caused by someone's failure to observe the
circulation pattern there. False starts or disqualifications can
be applied for breach of the circulation rules.
Don't forget to bring clothing for
all weathers (this is Scotland!), to boat early and to stay within
hailing distance of the starter once you arrive in the start area.
Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to help with stake boating
We would still welcome more during the course of today (please note
my request of yestarday (see below)for those who had previoulsy
volnteered to send the form again): the rota will be on the web
later today and in the caravan from tonight.
Good luck to all competitors; fingers crossed for a great Scottish
Championships.
Rowers on radio: Drew Hendry and Andrew Shannon, two of Aberdeen's
contenders for selection for the Commonwealth Rowing Championships,
have been invited as studio guests on John Beattie's Sports Weekly,
BBC Radio Scotland, 0900-1000 this Saturday morning.
13 June - unlucky for the webmaster
Please re-send your Regatta Volunteer form! Unfortunately a bug
in my HTML has meant that none of your Regatta volunteer forms have
been getting through. They haven't even been bouncing back from
the server - so you would have had no way of knowing your messages
were not getting through.
Could all those who submitted regatta
volunteer forms for Scottish Championships please submit again:
I promise this isn't a way of getting you on the rota twice. Honest!
Sincere apologies for the inconvenience
12 June
More Regatta Volunteers needed for Scottish Championships: many
thanks to those who have already responded to the on-line volunteering
scheme for stake boat people. Please remember that if lots of people
volunteer to do just one 2-hour shift it will make all the difference
to the smooth running of the regatta. If you want others to volunteer
to be on the stake boat for your races, why not reciprocate by volunteering
to be on a stake boat for them when you aren't racing?
Nithsdale Regatta: poster and events for the Nithsdale Regatta
next weekend - the perfect antidote to all that stress from the
Championships.
10 June
Scottish Rowing Championships and Scottish Schools Rowing Championships.
The draw is now up (see left): a big entry with quality racing in
prospect. Please do remember the need for competitors to volunteer
to help the regatta in support roles when you're not racing: it
was good to see folk right from young juniors to well-known internationalists
volunteering at SPR, and if you help out in similar numbers at the
Championships we should have a great, fully-staffed, event to enjoy.
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June
Princess Royal opens National Rowing Academy: click
the link for a report with pictures on the visit by HRH The
Princess Royal to Strathclyde Park to open the National Rowing Academy
3 June
More wins at the Met. The Aberdeen Elite Men's 4 repeated their
Saturday performances on Sunday (1st in 4+, 3rd in 4-) while Gavin
Shaw (Aberdeen University) won Elite Lightweight Men's 1x. Andy
Buchan and Tom Hanna (Aberdeen University) won Elite Lightweight
Men's 2- from Clyde's Douglas Murray and Henry Westwood (for a Scottish
one-two), while an Aberdeen BC/Aberdeen University composite of
Alison Aiken, Olivia Clarke, Kathryn Sommer and Fiona Hunter (cox
Niki Dinsmore) won Women's S2 4+. There are also a creditable crop
of 2nd and 3rd places listed in the full results on the Metropolitan
Regatta site.
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The
Nithsdale W J16 4+ who won bronze at National Schools Regatta
last weekend (from stroke) Alex Gemie, Anna Anderson, Rhona
Davidson, Jennifer Ross and cox George McCall. The other
Scottish medallists were Robert Norman and Gordon Stevenson
(George Watson's College), silver medallists in M J16 2x
and Annie Morrison (St Andrew BC), bronze medallist in W
J16 1x.
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2 June
National Schools Regatta is this weekend at Nottingham: unfortunately
they are not putting up results until after the end of the regatta,
but they will eventually come up here
Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake has a healthy Scottish entry
- and some excellent results for Scottish crews on the first day.
Aberdeen BC won Men's Elite 4+, Aberdeen University 2nd in Men's
S2 4+, Aberdeen BC 3rd in Men's Élite 4-, Aberdeen University
(Shaw) 2nd in Men's Elite Lightweight 1x, Aberdeen BC/Aberdeen Uni
BC 3rd in Women's S1 8. Some of the relative times (1500 m course
only) in these races make very interesting reading for those studying
form for later in the season: full results here
1 June
Champs entries pouring in: whilst I was working at the National
Rowing Academy yesterday, the postie delivered a healthy pile of
envelopes containing club entries for the Scottish Rowing Championships.
Good to see people planning ahead in view of the holiday weekend
postal arrangements. If you still have entries to post, choose your
post office or post box carefully; the collection schedule seems
patchy, with nothing at all on Monday or Tuesday.
Development Officer starts today: Callum MacDonald
started work in his new role this morning at the National Rowing
Academy.
Boathouse Fitness Club opens for business: the Boathouse Fitness
Club at the National Rowing Academy opened to members this morning
at 8.00am. First member through the door at a few minutes after
8.00 was Colin Gray of Wishaw; ahead of the opening, 154 paying
members had already joined. Opening hours are Mon-Fri 0700-2200,
Sat 0800-1900 and Sun 0800-2200. There has been a busy programme
of technical inductions for members in the last week - a programme
which continues in coming days. The Boathouse Fitness Club
telephone number is 01698 250250. |
