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Canberra Rowing Club wins the Men’s and Women’s Premiership in 2017-18.

With the completion of Rowing ACT’s 2017-18 season of point score regattas the Canberra Rowing Club have again been victorious in our Premierships.

ANUBC have improved with their influx of new members and coaches to come second in both categories and this is a major resurgence in the students’ performance.

In third place in the Men’s flag were Black Mountain, based around their strong Masters crews.

In the Women’s competition Capital Lakes Rowing Club was third, an excellent result based around their schoolgirl crews.

Of the school programs, Radford was strongest coming in fourth in the Overall Premiership, while Marist was half a point behind Black Mountain when it came fourth in the Men’s premiership.

Inter-state clubs Shoalhaven, Kinross-Wollaroi and North Shore also had an impact with successful visits to our regattas.

The diversity of clubs that now compete at our regattas are indicative of how the ACT regattas and our venue are well regarded inter-state. These visiting clubs provide great competition for the locals and strengthen our sport.

You can download the points score here.

Rowing ACT has a new perpetual trophy – The Tarcoola Trophy which has been donated by the Letcher family. It is to be awarded to the winner of the ACT Champion U19 Men’s Single Scull.
The Letcher family have been significant contributors to ACT Rowing.
Luke has won multiple National Championships (including the National Under 19 single scull title) and is a current member of the Australian team.
Vicky is active in BMRC administration and has been on the Rowing ACT Board and can be seen on regatta days out on the water as a BRO and as a competitor.
Graham is our diligent photographer providing excellent photos for every regatta for Facebook.

The trophy is to be called the Tarcoola Trophy.
It is named after Tarcoola Reach.
This is the reach that runs from the AIS shed past Radford to BMRC.
This stretch of water is a favorite for the Letcher family.

ACT Sports Minister Yvette Berry opened the $1.4 million Capital Lakes boathouse this morning in wonderful autumn weather that highlighted this great facility in a beautiful location.

Rowing in the ACT commenced in East Basin in 1964, out of a Boathouse that has since become the Boathouse Restaurant, and although most clubs have migrated to the more sheltered waters west of the City, and the regatta venue is no longer under Kings Avenue Bridge, Capital Lakes have been keen to continue to row from this end of the lake.

Both the club and Rowing ACT are grateful for the ACT Government support in building this boathouse to replace the various past boathouses that hosted the many clubs that rowed from this part of the lake, including the infamous nissen hut in Kingston Boat Harbour.

This beautiful new rowing facility is an opportunity to continue to grow our sport and enable more Canberrans to enjoy the lake out of a community club.

ACT single scullers Tom Perry and Caleb Antill have both had great National Championships in Penrith in their respective single sculls races.

Tom rows for Canberra Rowing Club and he had dominant performance to take the lead near the half way mark and push out to a 4 second win from Hong Kong sculler Hin Chun Chiu, and Mercantile’s Red Mathews. This was a great win against international competition for Tom. He has had a great season both locally and nationally.
World Under 23 Champion quad sculler Caleb Antill from ANU has built on last season’s International form to win the Australian under 23 Single Sculls Championship. Caleb is now part of the National Training Center in Canberra, and he has benefited from the hard work that he put in after last year’s World Championship. Caleb led throughout his race to win by nearly 4 seconds from Black Mountain Rowing Club’s Tyron Boorman. Tyron, who was part of the successful Australian Under 21 team last year had a very controlled race to row from 4th in the early stages to his second place in the final.

These are all great results for coaches Renae Domaschenz and Andrew Randell.

We look forward to these and other results for the various ACT combinations over the remaining events at the National regatta