This Saturday night, 13th June 7.30pm at the boatclub we will be celebrating all that has made Richmond great this year.
It is a chance for everyone to get together (dressed in something other than a zootie) and remember the good times we had this year. We will take the opportunity to thank the coaches and volunteers who have given up their time to help throughout the year as well as celebrate all the achievements that have been made.
There is still just enough time to buy a ticket for you, your partner or your friend to celebrate the 2014-15 season at RRC.
Tickets are $25 by EFT transfer to the club
BSB 633 000
Acc No. 117078238
Ref “Name Pres night”
Please let me know if you have any dietary requirements.
Venue hire setting up tonight (Wednesday)
For those heading down to the club tonight, please be aware that the caterers are setting up the tables etc this afternoon for the function tomorrow morning as it will be an early start. Please do not use or move any of the set out furniture.
Please also note that because Pilates will be in the gym area tomorrow morning, all the gym equipment has been moved to the side of the gym area. If you are using an ergo or other equipment tonight, please put it back at the side again so the pilates group does not have to do lots of clearing away before they start their class.
Thank you for your assistance in these matters.
Calling all rowers, coxes, coaches!
Our next learn to row starts on Sunday 14th June and runs for four consecutive Sundays at 12pm.
We have between 10 and 15 people signed up so far, but it won’t be possible to run it without coxes and coaches to help. It would also be useful to have a couple of rowers available in case we need to make up numbers or demonstrate technique.
You don’t need to commit to them all, but if you are able and willing to come along for a few hours to help out, please email Cat Hardie on [email protected]. Please specify which dates you could help out with (14, 21, 28 June & 5 July).
Thanks heaps.
Cat
RRC fundraising
We’ve signed up again for 2015/16 with the Entertainment Book! So get in now before you’re 2014/15 book runs out at the end of this month.
For those of you who don’t know how fabulous this is, let me explain:
- The entertainment book has over 800 vouchers / discounts on dining, entertainment, activities, hotel stays etc. etc. across Melbourne and suburbs (or other states if you wish). These discounts can be 15% off meals at top restaurants to 2 for 1 entry to the Melbourne star or even 20% off at some cellar doors!
- The book or (even handier mobile app) costs only $65 to purchase – 20% of which will go directly back to the club to purchase gym equipment, put towards a bigger, better fleet of boats or help fund much needed coaching and coxing!
- To put the $65 in perspective, I can guarantee you will make that money back if you use the book / app just twice! Just imagine having multiple 2 for 1 vouchers for Grilled, Trios or other equally yummy places in Southgate after a hard Yarra session!
- Your vouchers are valid to 1st June 2016!
Interested, but need a bit more convincing….
- You can download the app from iTunes or google play and see what vouchers are on there. You just won’t be able to redeem any of the deals until you have bought a membership
- I will have a demo book at the club – so please come and see me (Cat Hardie) if you would like to have a flick through look at what deals you can get
So what do we need you to do…..
Please purchase a book or the app for yourself (if you would like), but also please forward this email or share our order page link (below and here) around your networks i.e. friends, work colleagues, facebook wherever you can – and that is all!
https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/917×286
There will be a couple of posters popping up in the changing rooms just to remind you all.
Any questions, please ask me (Cat – my email / mobile no. below also).
[email protected] or 0450238809
Thanks
Cat
Presentation night tickets now on sale
It’s time to look back on another bumper season at RRC and what better place to celebrate than at our very own biggest achievement of the year our beautiful boathouse!
7.30pm Saturday June 13th will be a night to celebrate achievements over the year and to say thanks to your coach. Friends and family are invited to enjoy the evening too.
Tickets are $25 each – pay by June 6 so caterers know numbers.
Please pay for your tickets using the RRC bank account
Richmond Rowing Club, Bendigo Bank
BSB: 633 000 Account Number: 117078238 Ref: your Name and Pres Night
Contact [email protected] if you have any dietary requirements or questions.
Look forward to seeing you all.
Winter Sculling registration open
You can now register for the 2015 Winter Sculling series.
Click Here to Register for this Event
Please ensure you have contacted Barry to confirm boat availability before registering and if you want some training/coaching in the single consider speaking to Gerry about her sculling coaching sessions too.
Nothing like it for keeping focus and fitness through the winter, plus again this year everybody gets a T-shirt at the end of the season.
All the info is at www.wintersculling.com.au
And while you are getting ready for the season, consider if someone near and dear to you would like to be a volunteer. Winter Sculling runs on volunteers; nobody gets paid, we keep it as simple and cheap as we can and we’d like to extend the volunteer base, people with boat licences especially welcome.
Rewards are eternal gratitude from you (the recruiter), a warm feeling from the admiration of the rowers, and protection from winter coughs and colds by hardening up outside (well, it works for me….)
Please get your volunteer to contact this year’s new volunteer coordinator Sue Andrews at [email protected], or email to [email protected]
Masters States done for Another Year
A beautiful day on Saturday at Lake Nagambie was the setting for this years Victorian Masters State Championships. The last regatta of the season in Victoria was a successful day for many of the clubs crews with a special mention to all the novice rowers who came away winners on the day.
Justin’s novice girls not only learnt to row this season but also learnt to scull and in their first ever sculling race were involved in a close battle with Footscray but keeping focussed all the way to the line and according to the commentator “sitting up just that bit taller than their competitors making all the difference over the last 100m” they came away victorious. The mens novice crews also showed cross discipline skills winning in both the four and quad.
It was great to see Laura Schouten back out on the water in a Richmond zootie (in her first ever masters regatta) rowing in a composite crew with Lindsey Brown taking home a gold medal in the eight. Geraldine Goss was also busy getting plenty of race practice in ahead of national Masters to be held in NSW in a couple of weeks. We lost count of the number of events and medals but there were some great races. With RRC finishing 5th on the medal tally (with only 16 rowers competing) we are clearly a strong force in Victorian rowing.
A big congratulations to all involved in a great day and a wonderful conclusion to the 2014-15 season. Thanks to Tim Evans for towing the trailer and our support crew of friends and family whose cheering helped ever tiger push that bit harder to the finish line.
Richmond Crew Medallists
Male masters Novice Coxed Four (gold) – Robert Gordon, Raymond O’Shea, Jon Roberts, Allan Randall and cox Rebecca Lionnet
Male masters Novice Coxed Quad Scull (gold) – Robert Gordon, Raymond O’Shea, Andy Harrison, Allan Randall and cox Rebecca Lionnet
Female masters Novice A/C Coxed Four (gold) – Josepha Smith, Susanna Mullner, Merry Kraina, Aline Dejaegher and cox Mike Numa
Female masters Novice A/C Coxed Quad Scull (gold) – Josepha Smith, Susanna Mullner, Merry Kraina, Aline Dejaegher and cox Shern Timmins
Male masters A/B Single (Silver) – Andy Harrison
Mixed Masters A/C Quad Scull (silver) – Michelle Joy, Andy Harrison, Tim Evans and Karen Doggett
Female masters A/B Double Scull (bronze) – Michelle Joy and Karen Doggett
Tiger News
As the season is almost to a close, we have some important business to take care of – the annual Around the Island – Keith Miller Award Trophy to compete for, end of season break dates and an invitation to participate in the RRC strategic planning.
Keith Millar – Around the Island Time Trial in regulation fours (tubs)
Coaches, it is time to assemble crews for the annual RRC Keith Millar Around the Island time trial. Rules are:
– Time trial to be raced in a tub four boat
– Timed by your coach
– Representative on the bank to check for river safety when turning back from the island
– Times to be forwarded to the Head of Rowing [email protected] by Sunday the 7th of June.
Award – there is an engraved glass trophy for the fastest male recorded time and fastest female crew recorded time. Winners will be announced at Presentation night on the 13th June. If you have any questions please let me know.
Coaches please note : – typically the time trial is raced ‘around’ the island. I understand this is not possible due to dredging works. Crews will be required to turn at the island and row back…not row around it. Please do NOT amend times for turning, sipping drinks etc. Only raw times from ‘start to finish’ are accepted for the time trial.
Scullers – There is a time trial for the fastest recorded time in a tub single. Rules the same as the above however the course is up to Swan Street Bridge, turn and back to pole in front of club.
RRC Season Break
1st June – 19th July will be the official RRC Season Break. During this time crews are encouraged to cross train, cycle, use the gym etc, however there is no official planned squad training. Crews wanting to train on the water are self-organised. Please alert our captain to boat usage.
Strategic Planning 2015/2016
Coach mentor, one squad culture, coxswain development, fleet purchase planning – all of these innovations (and more) came from the strategic planning days held in the past. Please consider attending, as it is open to the whole club to attend.
How can I be involved?
First there will be a survey link sent around to you during the week. Please fill this out so the committee and members can gauge how we are going.
In addition to this you are invited to the club on Saturday 20th June 10 am to 2pm for the workshop forum. Responses from the survey will be collated and innovations through workshopping in groups will begin.
Rowing Regards, Rochelle
Head of Rowing
RV Level 1 Coxswain Course
Rowing Victoria has scheduled an upcoming Level 1 Coxswain Course to be held due to high demand.
Details are as follows:
Location: Albert Park South Melbourne Rowing Club
Date: 25th of May 2015
Time: 6-8pm
Upon attendance of this course, participants will be required to complete (and pass) the online quiz and will subsequently become an Officially Accredited Rowing Victoria Coxswain and avoid being fined.
Register at the link:
http://www.rowingvictoria.asn.au/eventsrsvp/957/
It is a great opportunity to get the knowledge in now so that by the time the season starts, all crews will be MORE than ready to compete! RRC requires all members to obtain this level 1 certification whether you intend to cox or not. The course gives you basic river rules that is important safety information for all rowers and a requirement of anyone who is wishing to row in a coxless boat.
I would encourage anyone who currently does not have this certificate to attend this course.
If you require any further information, please email [email protected]
Saturday 2nd May was a busy day for the club with members participating in the Albert Park masters regatta and the fundraising sausage sizzle at Hawthorn Bunnings. Thanks to all those who were involved in such a successful day, particularly Emily Dunn who took time out from her wedding planning and put a lot of effort into arranging the fundraiser, our Boat Captain Barry who transported the boats to Albert Park on the Friday night and then sizzled some sausages on the Saturday, Tim Evans who brought the boats back home and Justin Thomas who represented Richmond as the Boat Racing Official (BRO). Also to everyone who volunteered to serve at the sausage sizzle, including Matt Crouch and Charlie Burke who managed to reserve some energy to volunteer post-regatta and who I am told had killer sales technique to boost the end of the day profits.
Those who braved the 40kph winds at Albert Park wore their black arm bands in respect of Eric Britton and were rewarded with some successes. Our novice women’s crews were particularly successful in the regatta with two crews claiming gold as a testament to their first season in the four and quad. We also had a very competitive female masters coxed quad taking gold and Andrew Harrison taking gold in the men’s single which was no mean feat in the conditions. Those who weren’t as successful could take comfort in APSM and Argonauts bake-off with a great selection of sweet treats available that were very difficult to resist.
Male Masters Single Scull – Andrew Harrison
Female Masters Novice Coxed Four – Josepha Smith, Susanna Mullner, Meredith Kraina and Aline Dejaegher. Coxed by Robert Gordon
Female Masters Coxed Quad Scull – Carolyn Manning, Lindsey Brown, Karen Doggett and Michelle Joy. Coxed by Derek Begg
Female Masters Novice Coxed Quad Scull – Susan Powell, Stefanie Dudczig, Thalia Marshall, Shern Timmins. Coxed by Michelle Joy.
Regatta Report by Jodie Naisbitt