Keeping you
in the picture: a whole bunch of piccies from the Inverness
Hawco Sprint on their website
World Rowing Championships update: full reports
are on the FISA site, along
with the opportunity to follow racing live with the Racetracker.
Also in the Herald British
crews still in the medal hunt
Club secretaries - don't hide! If you've recently
taken over as secretary of your club, have you informed SARA secretary
Paul Mackie of the
change? Do let him know, otherwise you can get missed off the mailing
lists . . .
FISA World
Rowing Championships this week in Milan. The GB team includes
some notable Scots. Katherine Grainger (St Andrew) goes with Cath
Bishop in the coxless pair: with the Bearing World Cup already in
their trophy cabinet for the year, what can they do at these championships?
Martin Harris (formerly Clyde) and Danny Harte (an FP of George
Heriots School) have both earned themselves places in the men's
lightweight eight. Follow the racing on the FISA
Race Tracker.
And for those Scottish regatta organisers planning races
for mere mortals . . . please don't forget that your bids
for regatta dates for 2004 must be with Race Control Convenor Sandy
Walker by next Monday, 1st September.
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22 August
Inverness
Hawco Sprint preview on Grampian TV: look out for a film
report from the Caledonian Canal on Grampian TV's North Tonight
at 6.00pm Friday.
Double for sale: check the Sales
& Wants page for details of this latest offering. Incidentally,
I hear from Malcolm Prescott that his recent 'wanted' ads for an
open water training boat and a pair of sculls were successful- though
he's still looking for a 1x. The Sales & Wants page does seem
to work quite quickly for many advertisers and since it's (currently!)
free to SARA clubs and their members, you may want to make fuller
use of it for your individual or club needs
21 August
Faskally
Coaching Course 2003: the annual coaching course at Loch
Faskally (Pitlochry) is from 17-19 October this year - and at £60
a head it's probably the best balance of coaching and fun you can
buy. The course is open to over-18s who have at least one year's
rowing experience - best suited to 'advanced novice' or R2 level
rowers. Full details and
booking form here.
Glasgow Uni new faces: Glasgow Uni BC and Glasgow
Uni Ladies BC both have new contacts (see contacts
page) and would like to issue a special invitation to anyone
starting at the university this autumn to contact the captains if
they are interested in either continuing or taking up rowing.
National Rowing Academy - athlete selection and funding:
National Coach, John
McArthur, would like to hear from any athlete setting GB selection
goals in the coming year, to help him plan the coming year's programme
at the Academy (including the selection of Academy Athletes). John
also has details of the various funding schemes for performance
athletes, notably sportscotland's TAP, and can offer advice on what's
available and how to apply. If contacting John about either Academy
selection or TAP funding, best to include a brief rowing CV and
last season's best ergo score.
20 August
'Auntie' seeks
eligible bachelor: I kid you not! The Beeb have approached
SARA to see if we can help them find a gorgeous hunk of manhood
to spend a grueling fortnight in the south of France with 25 beautiful
women, shooting a series of 'The Bachelor'. Apparently they've found
the women, but guys are at a premium. Full BBC info
and application form
here. (Pity we don't have the chatboard any more - it would have
been fun to see who the Scottish rowing women would have nominated!)
19 August
Draw
for Inverness Sprint now up: racing starts at 11.15, with
some 40 races programmed.
Oi! Can I have my blades back? I hear from Jim
Ferguson that a club borrowed a pair of wooden-handled sweep blades
from George Watson's College at Scottish Championships (Strathclyde
Park). Could the person who currently has them please contact
Jim about return asap - they are needed as part of a set.
14 August
Last call
for Inverness Hawco Sprint! (Saturday 23rd August) Entries
can be accepted by post, elecronically or by phone (but must include
names and licence numbers of all competing athletes) by the 6pm
on Sunday 17th August - DEADLINE. Full details on the poster,
rules and entry
form
12 August
Could you
be a (paid) part time National Rowing Academy coach? Here's
an offer you don't see every day - paid coaching work with further
coach development training built in. Read all about it and apply
here!
11 August
Event Director
- FISA World Masters Regatta 2005: SARA is advertising
this high level post, with responsibility for ensuring the commercial
success of the FISA Masters of 2005 at Strathclyde Park. Full job
and person spec here
(pdf format) .
Another scull for sale: details on the Sales &
Wants page
10 August
World
event blown off course: you think Strathclyde Park can get choppy,
or Holme Pierrepont downright rough? Read Mike Haggerty's report
on the World Junior Rowing Championships at Schinias, Greece - built
as the venue for the 2004 Olympic rowing events. Racing ended up
being over the first 1000m of the course (SPR 2003 revisited?),
with GB finishing 5th= in the medal table. Full results on the FISA
site.
8 August
Scottish umpire
to stand on world stage: congratulations to SARA umpire
Lesley Stewart (St Andrew BC) who recently passed her FISA umpire
exams and joins the elite ranks of umpires qualified to officiate
at international events such as the World Rowing Championships,
World Cup and Olympic Games.
Lesley's qualification restores Scotland to the position of having
three umpires on the FISA list - Peter Morrison and Mike Haggerty
being the other two.
6 August
Coxed four
and single scull for sale: check the Sales
& Wants for these new listings. Hopefully they find buyers
as quickly as the Glynn Locke single which took less than a fortnight
to sell via this web site recently (yes, it works!)
5 August
Regatta Calendar
2004: Clubs are reminded that applications for regatta
dates for 2004 must be with the Convenor
of Racing Control by 1st September. The invitation to submit
dates was sent to all member clubs by e-mail on 18 July with the
appropriate application form attached. The dates for Strathclyde
Park Regatta and the Scottish Rowing Championships in 2004 have
already been fixed for 24/25 April and 12/13 June respectively.
Proof in pictures: some excellent photos of Kirsty
Myles' medal presentations (gold
and silver)
at the Coupe de la Jeunesse on Dutch site nlroei.
4 August
And a silver
on Sunday: Kirsty Myles and Vicky Tatman added silver on
Sunday to their gold from Saturday at the Coupe de la Jeunesse.
Their contribution helped GB to a particularly successful weekend
result: a win in the junior men's match, a win in the junior women
and (predictably) a win overall in the Coupe for 2003.
3 August
Scot adds
more gold to GB tally: in the first day of racing at the
Coupe de la Jeunesse yesterday in Hazewinkel, Kirsty Myles of George
Watson's College, with her partner Vicky Tatman of Dame Alice Harper,
won gold in women's junior double sculls. Their time of 7 min 22
secs was almost almost 7 seconds ahead of the second placed crew
from the Netherlands. This was one of six golds by GB on the day.
1 August
More
golden glory
Many thanks to Brian Pluckrose of Natures Images for allowing me
to reproduce this professional original of the Heriots girls who
won gold for Great Britain in the Franco-British match at Nottingham
last weekend. The crew are (from stroke) Karina Williams, Stephanie
McDowell, Gemma Lumsden and Emma Guy
There are more photos from the event - including more of the Heriots
girls - on Natures
Images (I like the one with the 4 girls in their glad rags all
standing taller than their pocket-sized coach in his kilt), while
the Natures Images
site as a whole has photographs from most of the summer's major
regattas in Britain, including both Henleys and the Nat Champs at
Strathclyde Park.
Who ate all the pies? A most unusual item for
sale new up today on the Sales & Wants page. Also, further down,
a single and an open water training boat in the 'wanted' section.
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