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Junior
Committee Members
- Juniors! Check out the Forum please. We need 2 junior reps for
the committee, talk to Karen if you are interested as soon as possible.
If more than two of you want the job we will put it to a vote. You
don't have to come to every meeting but it is a chance to get the
views of the younger members of the club heard. Get involved in
the running of your club! |
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Racing
Licences
- It's that time of year again! Letters will be sent out soon about
membership renewal but just in case anyone wants to race in the
next month or so you need to get organised with your racing licenses.
There are paper copies of the racing licence application form down
at the club, if you can't make it down or prefer to print your own
just click here... |
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Photo's
- Loads of people have been taking photo's of the breathtaking views
we have at the moment so I have set up a photobucket account for
the club. The idea is that any club member can upload their photo's
to the account to make it quicker and easier to share them. If you
want to upload any photo's go to
http://photobucket.com/. The user name is csrcpics and the password
is the same as the members section of the website. If you don't
know the password just drop
me a line and I will send it to you. I look forward to seeing
all of your amazing pictures :o) |
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Boxing
Day get together
- It was nice to see everyone down at the club this morning. It
wasn't really rowing weather but a good snowball fight and a very
impressive snowman build took place instead. Many thanks to those
who brought food down, especially to Richard whose Lentil soup was
just what the we all needed on a chilly day. See you all back at
training in the new year. Happy New Year Everyone!! |
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Caption
Competition
- Winner of the last caption
comp is Rachel Robertson, Well done Rachel, proof that flooding
the picture with captions will eventually pay off! . The next
picture is up, Lets see what you've got! |
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| Committee
Minutes -
The minutes have been updated in the Forum.
You must be registered to see them, doesn't take long to register
just click the register button and drop me an
email with your username and email address so I can authorise
you. |
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| Results
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I have updated the results for this year.
Can you all please have a look. This has been done using results
I have been emailed and I know there are results and crew member
names missing. We would like to have a complete record of our successes
from regattas and head races for the season. Email
me with any ammendments or additions.
If you have a crew at a head race can you get in touch with me and
let me know how you get on and the names of your crew. Thanks! |
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| Christmas
Row -
Traditionally we try and meet up over christmas to get out on the
water and have a bit of fun (and work off some of the food). There
is a discussion
on the forum asking when club members would like this to happen.
Please get involved and tell us what you think. |
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| Level
2 Coaching course -
Scottish Rowing will be running a Level 2 coaching course at the
National Rowing Academy on the 13th/14th & 20th/21st of March
2010 for all interested parties. Check out the Scottish
Rowing News page for more details. This is a course well worth
doing, if you are interested why not have a chat with Caroline to
see what's involved. The club is keen to increase the number of
qualified coaches and would be willing to consider helping people
to achieve this. |
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| Club
Ceilidh -
A fantastic night at the club ceilidh, great atmosphere and lively
action on the dance floor from everyone, didn't know some of you
older ones had it in you!
In addition to the dancing
the annual CSRC awards were announced. This years Most Improved
Male Junior was Finn Campbell for a year which saw his efforts in
training rewarded with a win in the indoor rowing championships
and good performances in both singles and doubles. The Most Improved
Female Junior was awarded to two of this years star performers,
Caitlin Horsburgh & Clare Hiddleston. Caitlin has grown enormously
in confidence this year and secured her first single championship
as well as the Bronze medal at the British in the CSRC/Inverness
coxed quad. Clare also had a great year and her hard work really
paid off as she obtained a HIR place, one of the few girls from
the club to ever do so. The club is run entirely by volunteers and
each year we recognise the efforts of those who put in more than
their share with the Andy Dunn Memorial Trophy. The 2009 award was
presented to Campbell Horsburgh for his outstanding and cheerful
contributions to club events, clubhouse and boat repairs and for
covering everything that doesn't move in fibreglass. Two trophies
for Most Improved Novice (Male and Female) were presented to the
clubs Novice Boston Marathon campaigners (John Delaney & Willie
Weir, Lesley Afuakwah & Caroline Parker), John Delaney announcing
that the teams efforts raised £7273.38 for the Teenage Cancer
Trust. Thanks were offered to Duncan Walker and Martin Holmes who
have both stepped down from the Committee after many years of service
and a small token from fellow committee members was presented to
them. Finally in recognition of his outstanding achievements this
year, in particular in bringing the first Junior Worlds Gold medal
back to Scotland, Andy Holmes was awarded a Lifetime Membership
of the club.
The evenings success
was in no small measure due to the efforts of Keith Robertson, Rachel
Robertson and Janice Hiddleston and we would like to thank them
all very much. This is Keiths last year as Ceildh organiser, something
he's managed despite not having time to get on the water himself
these days and his efforts have been greatly appreciated.
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| AGM
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The clubs AGM was held on Weds 18th November. The club relies on
volunteers to run its day to day activities effectively and new
blood (and energy!) on the committee is welcomed, thanks to those
who have stuck their hands up. Many thanks also to Duncan, who is
stepping down from his role as secretary to concentrate on his role
as Junior performance group coach. AGM minutes are up on the Forum. |
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| Club
Circuits Session -
The club has started to do circuits sessions up at Lochwinnoch Primary
school on Tuesday nights to brighten up the cold winter evenings.
There are two sessions. One running from 6pm till 7pm for the more
energetic of you and a slightly more sedate version for the more
mature members from 7pm till 8pm. Car parking is available around
the back of the school and changing facilities are there if required.
A small donation towards the cost of the hall is appreciated. |
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| Reggata
and Head Results -
It has been
mentioned that I have been a bit slow in updating the results page
this year, my apologies to all the crews who should have seen their
names up there.Can
I remind folks that I need the information sent to me or I cannot
do it!
Results will only be
put up if I receive all the information I need for all of the entrants,
if you look at the results page you will see I put up the competitors
name, the event and the place for everyone in the top 3 of their
category. I will also put up details for anyone who does particularly
well (top 10) in a larger category. This is a page for results for
club members, I therefore put results up for anyone who is a club
member regardless of which club they are rowing for. |
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Head
entries
- Karen has put a call out for entries for the Clyde ARC head race
on 24th October. Keep checking the Forum to
make sure you don't miss out on entry dates for this and future
head races and regattas. There has been a section added to make
it easier, go take
a look.... |
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| Clydesdale
Scullers Head -The
club had a good presence at the first big head of the season with
11 singles and 4 doubles entered. We had winners in the singles
from Martin in the MVetC, who was 7th overall, and Caitlin in the
WJu16. The singles was livened up by a good race between Martin
and Alan who set off next to each other. Martin held Alan off until
the last bend when Alan's knowledge of the river (and youth) showed
and he overtook just pipping his older brother at the line.
In
the doubles Lesley and Caroline were delighted to win the WNov,
after the Boston it was more like a warm up! Caitlin and Emma also
won the Ju16 completing a very successful day for the club. Special
mention to Alan, racing for GRC, who won the doubles overall. Very
big Well Done's to all who took part!! |
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Regatta
photo's -
There are lots of photo's from this years regatta so I have split
them up into 4 seperate albums to make it a bit easier. They are
split up according to the time they were taken, so here goes. Photo's
taken between 7am and 10am,
10am and 1pm, 1pm
and 4pm and from 4pm till
the end of the day. I have also put up the photo's from the
Strathclyde Park regatta so take
a look at those too. To see a picture nice and big, double click
on it, you can then just click on the right of that picture to scroll
through them in a decent size.
If anyone wants a copy
of a photo please email
Karen and ask very nicely, she has all of the full size images. |
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CSRC
Regatta Results -
Wow, what a day!! The sun was out, the water was a little challenging
in places but we ran over 100 races in just under 10 hours and I
am reliably informed the last race set off only 1 minute late. Thanks
to everyone for doing a magnificent job helping out to make it another
huge success. More thanks will be forthcoming but I wanted to get
the results up as soon as possible, so
here they are. |
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National
Schools Regatta
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Andy had another successful weekend. He won Gold in the OJu17 1x
on Saturday and then Silver as part of a scratch crew in the championship
pairs on Sunday. The National Schools Regatta is particularly competitive
as it is well attended by the most promising juniors in the country.
Below
is a picture of Andy on the podium after receiving his gold medal
at Munich in the coxless four. |

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Clydesdale
Regatta
- Well done to everyone who competed at the Clydesdale Regatta on
Saturday. Results are now up on the racing/results
page. Special mention goes to Gavin who won in his very first
regatta Congratulations Gavin! |
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New
Links
- I've updated the links page to add a load
of websites that are quite handy if you want to do a bit of shopping,
clothing, boats and accessories are all covered. If anyone has any
more that I haven't covered, drop
me a line and let me know. |
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Request
- Does
anyone have a copy of the plans for the clubhouse or know where
they might be? If you do can you have a word with Martin or email
the webmaster
please.
update:
Martin thinks he has now found a copy but please check out the forum
and give us your suggestions of things you would like to see if
this goes ahead. |
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| Dates
for the Diary |
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| 2009
Rowing Calender -
The events
calender for 2009 is now up on the SARA website. There is an
edited version in the training and crew notices section of the Forum. |
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Results
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For more detailed results go to the Racing/Results
page |
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Club
Scratch Regatta -
What
a great day! We had sunshine, good food and good racing. A full
list of winners is now up on the Racing/Results
page. Thanks to all those who organised the event and helped
out on the day. Already looking forward to next years! |
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Boston
Marathon -
Although they managed to race for another club ;-) Pete Murray and
Martin Holmes achieved their goal of beating the course record for
their category in this years Boston Marathon. They managed to finish
the course in a very impressive time of 3:36:12 coming in 8th overall.
Congratulations also go to Andrew Holmes who completed the course
in 3:57:00 coming in second only 90 seconds behind the winner of
the J18 1X. Well done lads!! |
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| Club
News |
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| Thanks
- Karen Sanders has produced a splendid book of 2007 photographs
and donated a copy to the club. Thanks
Karen its really great!! |
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| 100
Club - The 100 Club winners for the whole year are in
the AGM minutes on the Forum. |
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| The
committee minutes are now available
on the Forum. Next commitee meeting Monday 4th
May 7.30pm. |
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| Get
your kit on! - Dot kindly organised
a club kit page on the Godfrey
Website for you now to place your orders for kit directly. Godfrey
will add up all the discounts etc. from orders placed and calculate
the discount due. |
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