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Rowing ACT Presentation, 3pm on 30 April at University House

Come and celebrate with your crew at the 2017 Rowing ACT Presentation function on Sunday 30th April. There is no cost and refreshments and finger food will be served at one of Canberra’s great venues, University House. Apart from presenting trophies to winning crews, we will also celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the ACT winning the King’s Cup for Inter-State Eights, with several of the crew members in attendance. Guest speakers include Nick McDonald-Crowley, a member of this Champion crew and Nick Hunter who was an observer of this great win.

All clubs and crews are welcome to attend. It will be a great afternoon.
The ACT’s Inter-State win in 1997 was conspicuous as the only time between 1985 and 1999 that Victoria did not win the King’s Cup. Some Victorians still hold a grudge.

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ACT Scullers win National Championships

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

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Cancellation of Masters Regatta on Easter Saturday

Rowing ACT has decided to cancel the proposed regatta that was to be held on Easter Saturday.

The Association has made this decision due to burnout of our Boat Race officials, and our potential difficulty in being able to have enough officials to manage the regatta.

We apologise to any competitors who had planned to compete. If you are locally based, we seek your assistance in swelling our numbers of Boat Race officials next season

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Captain Cook Memorial Water Jet to reopen on 13 March

On Canberra Day (next Monday) the Captain Cook Memorial Water Jet will re-open and this provides an opportunity to celebrate its rejuvenation. The jet will operate three times during the day (8:00-10:00am, 3:00-5:00pm, 7:00-9:00pm) and perhaps some of our crews that are out training could venture down into Central Basin in the 8am to 10am time slot to provide some color and movement as a backdrop for the thousands of photos that will be taken of the jet on the day.

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Kayak events on Molonglo and LBG on 25th and 26th February

Rowers have been asked to avoid the Molonlgo River all day on Saturday 25 February and be alert to kayakers on East Basin, Central basin and West Basin on the morning of Sunday 26 February.

The Burley Griffin Canoe Club is hosting the NSW State Marathon Championships on Saturday 25th February.
The event will be run all day (8am till 5pm), on the Molonglo River between Dairy Rd Bridge and the Hospice.

Please avoid the Molonglo River on Saturday 25 February.The Burley Griffin Canoe Club is conducting its annual ‘Burley Griffin Bash’ paddle event on Sunday morning. The event will be conducted over courses on the Molonglo River, East Basin, Central Basin and West Basin around Springbank and Spinnaker Islands, between 8am and 12 noon.
Scullers and crews are asked to keep a very keen lookout for paddlers in those areas on the day.

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Rowing Coach – Tasmania

 

We have been asked by Rowing Tasmania to share this advertisement for a Launceston-based Coach as part of the Pathway Program.

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Radford Time Trial Wednesday 25th January

Radford College would like to thank the Rowing ACT community for their courtesy and consideration during the time trial that was conducted on the Yarramundi course on Saturday morning.

Radford rowing indicates all lake users, including the many visitors in town, displayed courtesy to our scullers by giving them flat water and space in which to complete their piece.

Radford asks that clubs please convey to their members our thanks for their co operation.

Radford will be conducting another time trial for our junior shed this Wednesday morning 25th January from about 7:00am. Scullers will be in lane 7 only from the 1000m mark. They will have bow numbers on their boats and will be in Radford uniform. Radford expect to be able to conduct this trial in about 1 hour.

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Incoming RACT Executive Officer

RACT has hired a replacement Executive Officer.

He is Josh O’Brien and he will assume his role on 7 February, 2017.

Josh is currently Sports Operations Manager for Boxing Australia Ltd.
In his current role he manages that organisation’s finances, provides strategic and administrative support to the CEO and Board, manages Development and Talent Identification Programs, helps administer High Performance programs, has organised National and Oceania events, and compiled Annual reports, Social media etc.

Josh has held his current position at Boxing Australia since September 2013.

Rowing ACT welcomes Josh to our sport, and we look forward to a productive interaction.

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Radford College Grading trials Saturday, 21st and Wednesday 25th January

Radford College will be conducting grading trials on the Yarramundi course this Saturday from about 6:30am to 11am and next Wednesday 25th January from 7 till 8:30am.

Scullers will be racing a 1500m time trial in lane 7 only and will be displaying bow numbers. Radford will have marshals above the 1500m mark and safety boats down the course to deal with incidents. The Wednesday time trial will be run from the 1000m mark.

Radford ask that other lake users keep clear of time trialists and that coaching tinnies keep wash to a minimum as per Rowing ACT protocols. If clubs will be hosting visiting schools next week, could you please make your visitors aware of this activity.

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Function to farewell Andrew Randell and Michael Cusack

Rowing ACT will host a farewell drinks and nibbles function at Weston Park in the shade of the oak trees next to the rowing pontoons on Tuesday 17th January from 6pm.

Bring drinks and nibbles and celebrate Andy and Mike progressing to their respective next challenges.

All rowers and supporters are welcome to attend. RACT will provide tables, ice, mineral water, paper plates.

Bring a plate of food to share, and lets have a party.

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