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• Do you have a spare hour or two once a month?
• Have you been away from the club for a while, and would like to ease your way back onto the scene?
• Have you had inspiring coaches in the past, and feel you could share your rowing tips?
• Have you been coaching (or wanted to) but found the time commitment and organisation was beyond what you could give?

If any of this is you, then we have some great news.
This season we are proposing to run a new rowing structure – one that allows coaches with almost any level of experience and time commitment to be involved with the club, and to contribute to a team coaching culture.
We plan for the squads to move to bigger, more inclusive groups. To give you some idea of how things will be run:

• Winter training will have a skills and fitness focus. Squads will be mixed and will not train in set boats or by sweep/scull only.
• The head/sprint/masters phases are aimed at maximising the competitive experience of our sport.  We will focus on boats chosen across the squads and with an equal priority.
• Coaches will primarily coach the squad, not the same boat, working in pairs so that each rower gets the benefit of each coach’s experience (as does the other coach).
• Boats will not spend the entire session with one coach, moving between work with the coaches and away on their own.
• In each competitive phase of the season, as key regattas approach coaches will work more often with specific boats, although the group approach will remain.
• We will have set weekly club training sessions.  Squads will be run using a combination of online sign-up boards and dedicated squad organisers.
• Training plans will be set for the entire squad, so coaches available for any particular week simply need to deliver one of the session plans allocated for that week.

The RRC Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday 26 July 2014 at 10AM in the clubhouse. Although the redevelopment will not be completed, we will have access and use of the hall. It will be a great opportunity for members to meet, appreciate the improvements to our hall, as well as participating in the AGM.
The AGM includes reports from the current committee, elections for the 152^nd committee and voting on changes to the Rules of Association (RofA).
We are required to make a few changes to our RofA to be compliant with the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012. The Committee has taken the opportunity to review all our RofA and make a few other amendments to reflect current requirements and modernise language. A link to the summary of changes is below.
If you are considering nominating for the 2013-14 committee then please speak to a current committee member to seek information on the time and work required. A link to the nomination form is below.
All nominations for the 2014-15 committee must be with the Secretary 14 days prior to the AGM, that is Saturday 12 July 2014. Completed nomination forms can be scanned and attached in an email to the Secretary ([email protected]) ,handed to me in person or posted to the Secretary. Currently no mail box is available at the club, so all mail needs to be directed to; 13A Warana Way Mount Eliza 3930. Continue reading “RRC Annual General Meeting 26 July 2014”