Glasgow Silver Regatta: Entries for the first regatta of 2008 close on Sunday. The event will take place on a new 1150m not-too-bendy course on the Clyde on Saturday April 5th 2008. More information on the GRC regatta page.
North East Regatta: Entry details for the North East Regatta in Aberdeen on 19th and 20th April are now posted on the Committee of the Dee website.
26 March
Tayforth Regatta: The sixth annual Tayforth regatta was held this year for the first time on the Tay just below Perth at the Dundee University BC club house at Inchyra. This year the annual race between Dundee University and Stirling University Boat Clubs also included competitors from St Andrews University Boat Club, Stirling Boat Club and Heriott Watt University Boat Club. Results were:
Mens R2 4+ won by Dundee University by a length;
Mens Novice 4+ won by St Andrews University by a canvas;
Womens 4+ won by Dundee University easily.
The event was a great success and Dundee University Boat club would like to thank all those who attended for a great day.
Photograph: Tayforth Regatta, courtesy of Dundee Uni BC
High Performance Co-ordinator: Lee Boucher has been appointed as the High Performance Co-ordinator for the SARA. In view of his appointment to this position, Lee has resigned from the position as Team Manager. Any queries regarding HIR and Trials should be directed to the Assistant Team Manager, Graeme Cunningham, until a new Team Manager is appointed.
Photos from the Schools' Head: Pictures from the Schools Head are now up on David Nolan's webpage. These are lo-res images, if anyone wants the hi-res versions they should email David.
18 March
Glasgow 2014 - a legacy for Scotland: On 26th March, Mike Morrice will be attending a creative ideas development and networking event designed to help achieve what we all want from Glasgow 2014 – a positive lasting legacy for sport in Scotland.
The purpose of the event is to:
- Help Scottish Sports Association to make an intelligent, effective response to the Scottish Government’s 2014 legacy consultation;
- Gain information to help develop our own response for our sport;
- Share ideas across the sports sector about what we need from others and what we can do ourselves to help create this positive 2014 legacy;
- Make sure our views are heard by people with the power to make a positive difference.
The output from this event will then be shared with other influential bodies at a meeting held on 16 April, as well as feeding directly into the current 2014 legacy consultation. If anyone has any thoughts on this, please get back to Mike by the 25th March.
15 March
Scottish Schools' Head: The Forth and Clyde Canal at Dullatur provided an excellent venue for today's Scottish Schools' Head, held in good, dry conditions with a slight tail wind. Fastest crew of the day was the George Watson's College MJ16 4+, beating their J18 counterparts into second place; in the women's events, top honours went to ASRA's WJ16 4+, a mere 2 seconds ahead of the George Heriot's RC WJ18 4+. The Peter Grieve Trophy was won by George Watson's College by just one point over George Heriot's School. Full results can be downloaded in pdf format.
Head of the River Race: The Men's Tideway race took place early this morning, results are on the HoRR website. Fastest Scot was Colin Williamson, rowing in Leander I, with Alan Sinclair, rowing in Leander IV in ninth place. Fastest Scottish crew was Glasgow University in 83rd place.
12 March
Old Boats Wanted: Carrie McKenzie, the SARA Participation Manager, has been to the Western Isles recently to start a schools programme which will lead to on-water rowing. Unfortunately, there is not really a budget for this work - if there is anyone who may be getting rid of old boats that could be donated to this project, could they please get in touch with Carrie.
10 March
Aberdeen Universities Boat Race: In this year's boat race on the River Dee, Aberdeen University were victorious in all three races, AUBC's current students beating the current Robert Gordon University students by one and half lengths and AUBC alumni beating RGU alumni by two and a half lengths.
Photograph: AUBC leading RGUBC through the Queen Elizabeth II bridge on their way to victory. Photo courtesy of Roy Sinclair.
Scottish Schools Head: The provisional draw for the Scottish Schools Head, being held on the Union Canal at Dullatur on Saturday 15th March is now available.
GB Trials: GB trials were held at Hazewinkel over the weekend, with Katherine Grainger of St Andrew Boat Club, once again winning the women's single scull trial. Full report and results from the British International Rowing Office (BIRO).
8 March
Clydesdale Head: The Clydesdale Eights and Fours Heads was unfortunately cancelled today due to adverse weather conditions.
SARA Half Yearly Meeting: Due to club requests, the date for the Half Yearly meeting has been changed from the 16th to Sunday 30th March.
6 March
National Junior Indoor Rowing Champs: Following on from Monday and Tuesday's junior heads, the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships took place in London on Wednesday. Congratulations go to Jack Leask of George Heriot's School RC, who claimed the bronze medal in the Year 10 event in a field of over 80 rowers, having completed the Schools Head course just one day before. Full results on the London Youth Rowing website.
4 March
Junior Scullers Head and Schools Head: Results for the sculling and sweep versions of the Head are now available on the Mikrotime website for the National Junior Sculling Head and the Schools Head website. Crews from George Watson's College and George Heriot's School were racing in a number of events. Notable results were wins by the George Watsons J16 4+ and second places for the George Watsons J18 4+ and George Heriots WJ16 4+, with many other crews well placed in their events.
Strathclyde Park Regatta: Details for SPR 2008, being held on 26/27 April, are now available (this information has also been sent to all clubs by post). Information is detailed in the advert, club letter, events list and information sheet. Forms included are the Saturday entry form and summary sheet and the Sunday entry form and summary sheet. All this information will be placed on the right hand side of this page for easy reference. As in previous years, the organisers would like to remind everyone that the sheets for each day are different and the correct sheets for each day should be used and that it would be much appreciated if all clubs could type their entries using the downloadable forms.
Clydesdale Head of the River: The draw and information for competitors is now available for this Saturday's Head Race on the River Clyde.
Strathclyde Park selected as 2012 Olympic training camp site: Scotland’s international rowing course at Strathclyde Park is one of 28 facilities north of the border to be included in the London 2012 pre-Olympic Training Camp Guide.
These facilities are available for some thirty different Olympic disciplines, from archery to sailing, taekwando to wrestling, and will offer international teams the chance to complete their pre-London preparations in the days before the Opening Ceremony. Through the hosting of various top-class international events, including last summer’s under-23 World Rowing Championships, Strathclyde Park has built an enviable reputation as one of the top rowing venues in the world.
Stewart Maxwell MSP, Scotland’s Minister for Communities and Sport was at Strathclyde Park yesterday (Monday) to see the set-up for himself, and he said, “this is a fantastic facility that is truly world class. We want to use facilities like this to maximise the opportunities to bring business, tourism and foreign athletes to Scotland”.
Altogether over 600 facilities will appear in the Guide, to be published at the Beijing Games. It contains high quality elite sporting facilities right across the UK which will allow teams and individual athletes a great selection of venues from which they can choose to prepare for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Guide will be circulated to all National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and National Paralympic Committees (NPCs). These organisations will then decide where they base themselves or where to send individual athletes to prepare and acclimatise for London 2012. Extensive details of the facilities will appear on a dedicated website showcasing the quality and variety of options throughout the UK.
1 March
Women's Eights Head of the River Race: Results for Women's Tideway are now up on the WEHORR website. Scots featured in three crews in the top 20 finishers - Strathclyde Park, rowing in a junior composite, finishing 12th, and the Clyde/Clydesdale/Dundee University/Glasgow composite crew finishing 17th and Kirsty Myles, ex-George Watsons rower, now competing for Oxford Brookes University was in the crew who finished second overall.
Glasgow Silver Regatta: This year will see the 25th anniversary of the formation of Glasgow
Rowing Club. In celebration of that anniversary, the club will be hosting a main-season regatta, for the first time for some years, on Saturday April 5th. GRC will be using a new course which is straight-ish starting at "Cowan's" bend
and finishing just upstream of the GRC boat house, at around 1150 metres, it will offer a gentle transition from Head racing to the main regatta season. A poster and the entry form are on-line and more information can be found on the GRC website regatta page.
Union Canal Latest News: Good news for Edinburgh clubs - the dam at the 'Tin Bridge' has now been removed and the dregder is on its final section of canal and will hopefully be finished within the next week.
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Tayforth Regatta: The sixth annual Tayforth regatta was held this year for the first time on the Tay just below Perth at the Dundee University BC club house at Inchyra. This year the annual race between Dundee University and Stirling University Boat Clubs also included competitors from St Andrews University Boat Club, Stirling Boat Club and Heriott Watt University Boat Club. Results were:
Aberdeen Universities Boat Race: In this year's boat race on the River Dee, Aberdeen University were victorious in all three races, AUBC's current students beating the current Robert Gordon University students by one and half lengths and AUBC alumni beating RGU alumni by two and a half lengths.
