Archive for month: January, 2010

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Visiting Schools on LBG

There are several schools conducting rowing camps on Lake Burley Griffin starting
this week. Everyone needs to take care, keep to the traffic guidelines, and
assist the visitors have a safe and pleasant stay.
Lake Closures around Australia Day
The National Capital Authority has annouced some Lake Burley Griffin closures for
events associated with Australia Day:

  • 23 – 26 Jan 05:45 to 15:00 entire West Lake: Four days for the
    Australian Spiral Championships. Spirals are single handed sailing boats and
    there are more than 60 boats entered in these races.
  • 23 Jan 11:30 to 19:00 Central Basin: Canberra Capital National
    Triathlon
  • 24 Jan 06:30 to 15:00 Central Basin: Canberra Capital National
    Triathlon
  • 26 Jan 06:00 to 12:00 Central Basis: Australia Day events
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Radford Selection Trials – Sunday 17 and Wednesday 20 Jan.

Radford College will be conducting selection trials in lanes 5 & 6 of the
Yarramundi course this Sunday and again on Wednesday from 7.00am. Testing should
be completed by around 11.00am. Other lake users are asked to consider the
importance of these tests for our scullers and minimise speedboat wash wherever
possible.

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Bridge to Bridge – Start time announced

The organisers of the Australia Day events have assigned the start time for the B2B at 18:10, on Australia Day of course.

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CGGS Time Trial – 21 January

CGGS will be conducting a selection time trial on the course in lanes 5 & 6
on Thursday 21 January starting at 6:30am. It would be appreciated in wash could
be kept to a minimum to assist in fair racing.

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Bridge to Bridge – Call for Entries

The annual B2B race is being held again on this coming Australia Day. As in
previous years the race is for mixed eights only:

  • There is no entry fee
  • Entries to be emailed to actra@rowingact.org.au before 5pm Sunday 24th Jan
  • Club names only required on entries, not crew member names.

There must be a minimum of 4 women rowers (excluding the cox). Fancy Dress is
commended. We will reward best fancy dress with a prize.

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CGGS Regatta #04 – Call for Entries

The next ACT regatta is the Canberra Girls Grammar School Regatta on 30 January.
Entries must be submitted through your club and they close with ACTRA on
Wednesday 20 January. This regatta introduces two additional events for double
sculls – Men’s and a Women’s Grade A events which have been positioned at event
numbers 16 and 17 in the standard event list.

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ACT Championships order of events published

The ACTRA executive has approved and published the order of events for the ACT
Rowing Championships scheduled for 13-14 March 2010. The list can be found
here. Masters
and Under 19 competitors should look at the notes at the end of the list.

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ACT Kings Cup Regatta squads announced

The following rowers have been successful in earning a place in the ACT representative squads. We wish them good luck as their pre-regatta training moves into full swing. Final crew and coach announcements are expected later in January.

*Interstate Women’s Eight*

Lauren Burraston, Yasmin Burraston, Emma Cook, Sarah Cook, Didi Egerton-Warburton, Amy Fowler, Rhiannon Hughes, Louise Kilby, Kerry Knowler, Michaela Ledger, Sonia Mills, Christabelle Northam, Shannon Narracott (cox).

*Interstate Women’s Youth Eight*

Emily Caudle, Amanda Clifford, Imogen Cowan, Natalie Graf, Lara Hutchison, Lizzie Kaye, Colette Lipp, Caitlin McCormack, Pip Marques, Nicola Metcalf, Katelyn Mundy, Sam Shaw, Ourania Stamatis, Shannon Taylor, Jessica Williams, Rebekah Beattie (cox), Nicole Sims (cox).

*Interstate Men’s Youth Eight*

Matt Barnier, Nick Barnier, Dane Buckhorn, Dylan Conolon, Daniel Del Rio, Matt McCormack, Callum McKenzie, Angus Moore, Riley Owen, Scott Sheridan, Nick Purnell (cox).

*Interstate Men’s Single*

David Wright

*Interstate Lightweight Men’s Quad*

Still undergoing selection – squad to be confirmed.

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