Archive for month: April, 2017

Last weekend a group of 80 rowers, coaches and support team from CRC, ANU and ADFA travelled to Penrith to compete in the Ed Trickett NSW Club Championships Regatta.  The regatta is a two day event catering for all boat classes and abilities.  For many it is enjoyable to attend and race at the Olympic course, for some it may have been too soon after the Australian Championships Regatta to be back at SIRC…

 

Two highlight races for the weekend were the Women’s and Men’s B grade eight raced over the full 2000m course.  The Women’s race on Saturday afternoon was in perfect conditions.  Two predominate crews from the ACT (CRC and ANU) fought it out to the line in an extremely tight and exciting race.  CRC managed to break through ANU in the last few hundred meters to win by 3.55.  The Men’s race on Sunday afternoon was also dominated by two crews from the ACT – CRC and ADFA.  The ADFA crew broke out to a quick start on all crews and lead the race down the course for the first 1000m.  The CRC crew hung onto the ADFA crew and made a move with 800m to go.  In an exhilarating final 500m, the CRC crew pulled ahead of ADFA to win the race.  These two events were an great demonstration of the club grade rowing within the territory.

 

A special note and thank you the always familiar faces that support the crews and clubs within the ACT – Kym Fisher, Nick Hunter, Alison Chinn, Edwin Bien, Mark Kwiatkowski and Geoffrey Brown.  Also the family and partners that attended.

 

Below are the medal winners from the weekend.

 

Canberra

1^st MB 2X (Emmanuel Drakakis, Philippe Lorrain, Coaches: Geoffrey Brown, Mark Kwiatkowski)

1^st WB 8+ (Bridget Hickman, Alexandra Moylan, Jessica Gruen, Katie Tagg, Ellen Newton, Sandra Sweeney, Pippa Harrison, Camille Cherbuin, Cox: Nia Stamatis, Coaches: Edwin Bien, Alison Chinn)

1^st MB 2- (Emmanuel Drakakis, Philippe Lorrain, Coaches: Geoffrey Brown, Mark Kwiatkowski)

1^st MB 8+ (Tom Trobe, Nicholas Latimer, Hamish Harding, Angus Harding, Chris Lowe, Sebastian Lang, Emmanuel Drakakis, Philippe Lorrain, Cox: Nia Stamatis, Coaches: Mark Kwiatkowski, Geoffrey Brown)

2^nd WA 4x (Katie Tagg, Ellen Newton, Sandra Sweeney, Camille Cherbuin, Coaches: Edwin Bien, Alison Chinn)

3^rd MB 4X (Emmanuel Drakakis, Angus Harding, Sebastian Lang, Philippe Lorrain, Coaches: Mark Kwiatkowski, Geoffrey Brown)

3^rd WD 1x (Nia Stamatis)

3^rd WB 2x (Sandra Sweeney, Katie Tagg, Coaches: Edwin Bien, Alison Chinn)

3^rd WD 4x (Rebecca Hyslop, Taylor Kartsonas, Pippa Harrison, Bridget Hickman, Coaches: Edwin Bien, Alison Chinn)

3^rd WB 1x (Sandra Sweeney, Coaches: Edwin Bien, Alison Chinn)

 

ANU
1^st WA 2- (Miranda Hall & Jana Pretorious , Coach: Callum MacKenzie)

1^st WA 4- (Miranda Hall, Sarah Edwards, Rachel Kilo, Jana Pretorius , Coach: Callum MacKenzie)

1^st WB 2x (Sarah Edwards, Rachel Kilo , Coach: Callum MacKenzie)

2^nd MC 1X (Douglas Horn)

2^nd WB 8+ (Emma Manderson, Kirsten Everett, Fiona Chui, Sabina Bertuzzi, Rachel Kilo, Miranda Hall, Jana Pretorius, Sarah Edwards, Cox: Katrina Wiseman)

3^rd WA 4x (Fiona Chui, Jana Pretorius, Miranda Hall, Sabina Bertuzzi)

 

ADFA

2^nd MB 8+ (Lachlan Rowe, Steen Hemmingsen, Jackson Breer, Vincent Van De Graaff, Joseph Chilvers, William Hicks, Broderick Morgan, Liam Hunter, Cox: Liam Irwin, Coach: Matthew Bajramovic)

3^rd MB2x (Broderick Morgan, Joseph Chilvers)

3^rd MC 1x (Broderick Morgan, Coach: Matthew Bajramovic)

3^rd MB 4- (Joseph Chilvers, Jackson Fullarton, William Hicks, Jackson Breer, Coach: Matthew Bajramovic)

 

 

Nick Garratt is Rowing ACT’s next Head Coach.

Garratt will move to Canberra following on from coaching the successful 2017 NSW Kings Cup crew and as Head coach at Mosman Rowing Club.

Rowing ACT President David Bagnall welcomed Nick’s appointment, and the greater involvement of Rowing ACT in managing the ACT High Performance Program, along with our partners, Rowing Australia and ACTAS. “We think Nick has the skills to get the best out of our aspiring younger rowers and work co-operatively with our diverse club and school programs” Bagnall commented.

Nick is one of Australia’s most experienced and respected coaches, having coached crews at the Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympics. As coach of the 2012 women’s eight, he was instrumental in getting the so-called “Motley Crew” qualified for the London Olympics.

As head coach of Mosman Rowing Club for the last decade, he has overseen a very successful club that managed to integrate juniors, seniors and Masters rowers, while also producing talented youngsters who have rowed Internationally.

Garratt previously held the role of Head Coach at Haberfield Rowing Club (now UTS Rowing Club) from 1988 to 1992. He moved back to Western Australia to take on the role of Talent Identification Coach at the Western Australian Institute of Sport, a position he held until 1995.

ACTAS Manager Gerard Corradini  commented that “ACTAS is looking forward to working with Nick and leveraging his vast experience with identifying and developing talented rowers, and engaging with partners and stakeholders to enhance the local pathways”

In 2016, Garratt was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day Honours.