Archive for month: July, 2015

The 2015 RACT Coaching Series will begin soon. This series will involve the below.

Learn to Row Coaching Course (Level 1)

Registrations are now open for this course. It will be held on the 19^th of September at CGGS Aquatic Centre. Interested members should visit http://rowingact.org.au/coaching/upcoming-workshops/

Club/School Coaching Course (Level 2)

The dates of this course will be finalised shortly. Once this is done registrations for this course will be open. The intention is to run this course during October.

Coaching Seminars

There will be two coaching seminars run by RACT this season; one in the first half of the season and one in the second half. These seminars will involve a guest speaker giving advice on a particular aspect of coaching, e.g. nutrition, skill acquisition, program development. They will be open to all members of the rowing community.

RACT will provide the dates, times and topics of these seminars as soon as possible.

The rowing community was saddened to hear of the death on 25 July 2015 of long time ACT rowing supporter and national rowing figure Paul Rowe.

Paul’s association with ACT rowing went back to the early 1970s when he competed in Canberra as a member of Haberfield Rowing Club.  At Haberfield he reached the peak of his rowing career winning numerous NSW State titles.  He was also successful at the national level, winning national titles in all classes of crew sculling boats and lightweight sweep and single sculling boats.  As the NSW sculler he twice came second in the interstate sculling race for the President’s Cup against much heavier opponents from Queensland.  He represented Australia in the lightweight sculls at the 1975 World Rowing Championship at Nottingham.

Paul moved to Canberra in 1986 as apprentice coach at the Australian Institute of Sport Rowing Unit and has lived in Canberra ever since.  He had many coaching successes at the AIS and regularly coached Australian representative crews through the early 1990s including at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.  He coached many ACT crews notably the men’s lightweight IV representing NSW that won the Penrith Cup in 1987.  This remains one of ACT Rowing’s greatest moments.

Formidable as they were, Paul’s rowing successes were exceeded by his personal qualities.  His wisdom and generosity benefited many in the local rowing community, particularly members of his club, the Daramalan Rowing Club.

ADFA will be hosting a small regatta this Saturday the 25th of July on the Yarramundi Reach rowing course.

This regatta will involve 7 small boat events run between 8:45 – 10:30am.

Other users of the rowing course are asked to be considerate of this event.

Capital Lakes Rowing Club is pleased to announce the launch of its new website and club management platform.  The Club would like to inform the ACT rowing community of its new domain name at www.capitallakesrowing.com and would like to encourage all to visit.

The Club is now offering a variety of programs, including learn to row, novice, intermediate, competition, and social rowing for juniors, schools and masters. The Club also offers a para-rowing program. For more information please visit our the website or call the Club Secretary on 0423 669 916.