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After weeks of rain causing all the Rivers of England to flood, closing them to traffic and cancelling many of the early Regatta’s in this year’s summer season, this weekend saw the Staines Boat Club junior squad first chance to race in competition.
The Ball Cup Regatta was held at Dorney Lake, Eton which is the host venue for the Olympic Regatta later this year. The regatta is a multi-lane competition over 750 meters with qualifying heats and a final. A small but strong team of junior women athletes from Staines Boat club put in simply fantastic performances in races throughout the day.
Georgia Conner won a gold medal in the WJ14 single event and Abigail Mason won a silver medal in the WJ13 single event. Morgaine Webb also qualified for the final of the WJ13 single event just missing the medals in fourth.
Abigail Mason and Morgaine Webb also raced with club mates Georgia Conner and Avanji Vase in the Women’s junior age 14 double sculls qualifying heats. Abigail and Georgia won their heat which was the fastest of the three qualifying events and secured there position in the final. Morgaine and Avanji narrowly missed the first place in their race taking the second place position but sadly failed to qualify for the final. In the final Abigail and Georgia came in fourth overall just outside the medal position.
The high-standard of Rowing at the Ball Cup Regatta was notable this year and coupled with the changeable conditions on the lake means that this group of Staines Boat Club girls can be very pleased with their performance – WELL DONE Abigail, Georgia, Avanji and Morgaine.
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As you may be aware Staines is celebrating becoming Staines upon Thames this Sunday, SBC will have a stand in the bank oposite the club promoting rowing at SBC. If anyone has a spare few minutes to support the stand and chat to potential rowers that would be great. Specifically if anyone is able to help transport the 2 ergos across the river that would be really helpful.
In addition to this Heathrow as event partners are bringing a number of sporting legends, including Steve Williams, so there will be a chance for you meet or have your photo taken with someone who has won Olympic golds.
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Sorry guys, we are now back on RED boards. Absolutely NO ROWING.
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This month's Club Night has a special guest, Olympic gold medal winner BEN HUNT-DAVIS
We would love to see as many members and supporters at this event next Friday. Ben Hunt-Davis won a GOLD medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of the British rowing team, the only British crew to have won this event since 1912. Ben also works for the British Olympic Association and was Chairman of the 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships. He has co-authored an excellent book "Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?" with Harriet Beveridge and I'm sure will be happy to sign any copies you bring along! Ben will be speaking about his rowing experiences.
As always the evening starts at 7pm with food served at 8pm (£5 a head).
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The Staines Boat Club Junior Women’s squad had two entries in this event and put in a strong performance. Georgia Conner & Abigail Mason competing in the Women’s Junior 14 Double Sculls category beat 9 other crews to win this race in a time of 10 minutes and 1 second. Morgaine Webb was racing in the Women’s Junior 13 Single Sculls category came fourth. Well done girls!
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Just a reminder that the new membership year started on the 1st of March and so membership renewals are due NOW.
Regatta season is coming up and you need to have renewed your membership in order to be eligible to race. Only paid-up members will be permitted to race.
If you have not received or have lost your membership form, copies can be found on the website under 'About Us' then 'Membership'.
If you have any problems regarding renewing your membership then please contact Helen or Jill.
Many thanks to all those who have already renewed.
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If you would like to watch the Boat Race at the club on Saturday 7th, the bar will be open and there will also be a BBQ. The race starts at 2.15pm. Hope to see you there!
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A reminder that the next club night is this coming Friday , with the bar open from 7pm and food served at 8pm. This month's chefs are some of the girls from Brunel Women's squad.
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Last night saw the club's annual dinner dance. As well as the usual merriment, the following were recipients of the awards:
Most Improved Oarswoman - Marie Grant
Most Improved Oarsman - Dan Harrington
Club Person of the Year - joint between Tony Rawlings and Alison Tench.
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Seven members of the Junior Squad showed that they are amongst the very best in Britain when it comes to ‘Egrometer’ or ‘ERG’ racing and training. The girls and boys of the Junior Squad took part in the ‘National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships’ of ‘NJIRC’ held at Lea Valley Athletics Centre at Picketts Lock, Tottenham Hale, North London on Friday 23rd March.
This year NJIRC saw a huge entry of 2000 junior athletes from Schools, Youth groups and Rowing clubs from all over the United Kingdom. In what was a fierce competition the Staines Squad demonstrated that they were in the top 20 per cent of all competing athletes. Racing in their various age categories based upon School years, in groups of 30 at a time using the latest computer linked CONCEPT 2 Erg’s which were hooked up to a big screens showing ‘real time’ play back of the results to the hundreds of spectators and supporters. The atmosphere in the huge sports arena was highly charged as racing athletes at the ERG’s and spectators cheering on gave it their all. I am pleased to report the official and final results for ‘Team SBC’ are listed in racing order as follows.
Omar Abdul-Halim - Year 8 Boys (age 12/13 years) Result = 6th Overall out of 171 Boys competing (Distance 851m /Fix time 3 mins. = 39m behind Winner) *PB
Abigail Mason - Year 8 Girls (age 12/13 years) Result = 6th Overall out of 176 Girls competing (Distance 779m /Fix time 3 mins. = 27m behind Winner) *PB
Morgaine Webb - Year 8 Girls (age 12/13 years) Result = 44th Overall out of 176 Girls competing (Distance 713m /Fix time 3 mins. = 93m behind Winner)
Avanji Vase - Year 8 Girls (age 12/13 years) Result = 101st Overall out of 176 Girls competing (Distance 649m /Fix time 3 mins. = 157m behind Winner)
Rohin Johal - Year 9 Boys (age 13/14 years) Result = 24th Overall out of 129 Boys competing (Distance 1044m /Fix time 4 mins. = 154m behind Winner) *PB
Georgia Conner - Year 9 Girls (age 13/14 years) Result = 28th Overall out of 117 Girls competing (Distance 951m /Fix time 4 mins. = 147m behind Winner)
Charlie Wawman - Year 10 Boys (age 14/15 years) Result = 20th Overall out of 134 Boys competing (Distance 1402m /Fix time 5 mins. = 154m behind Winner) *PB
*PB = Personal Best
The SBC team members put in 5 extra special coached training sessions prior to this event as well an increased personal ERG training sessions. During the Coached sessions the resulting performances were recorded so that we were able to track progress. Four of the group have produced a Personal Best result in the race on the day which is quite an achievement. WELL DONE to everyone who took part in what was a truly great overall performance.
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