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ACT Championship Regatta – Final Draw

Here are the schedule, draw andprogram for the ACT championships this weekend. Security on site security will be on the foreshore from 4pm Saturday until 6am Sunday morning for those who wish to leave boats in the finish area overnight (This is the normal finish area on Lady Denman Drive, not Weston Park). Please ensure you bring plenty of boat racks/trestles and boat ties. Please note:

  • The Group D, Group E and schoolboy events are not championships, they will be run as divisions in the advertised […]

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ACTRA Seminar – Nutrition, Fatigue & Recovery – Thursday, 22 March

The final seminar in the summer workshop series will be held this Thursday night (22nd March), at Sports House, 100 Maitland St, Hackett from 7 9pm. Presenters will be Dr Shona Halson, Fatigue and Recovery Specialist and Dr Gary Slater (Nutritionist) who both work at the Australian Institute of Sport and consult to various Australian representative teams. Some of the topics that will be covered:

  • Appropriate nutrition and recovery for regattas when a rower is competing in multiple races.
  • Changing nutritional habits depending on the phase of the training cycle and intensity of training
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Rowing Australia Request – Adaptive Rowing Steering Committee member sought

RA is seeking applications for a High Performance Adaptive Rowing Steering Committee member. The request notice has been posted on the Rowing Australia website and calls for applications to be sent to Rowing Australia by Thursday 28 March. Could you please have a read and forward it on to anyone that you feel would be interested. If you have any further questions please dont hesitate to contact Sam Irvine at Rowing Australia.

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Federal Head of the Lake – Saturday 31 March – Invitation to Enter

Rowing ACT, the Australian Sports Commission, Canberra Grammar School and Radford College are pleased to invite you to the Federal Head of the Lake. The Australian Capital Territory has a long tradition of competitive school boy crews and the Board of Rowing ACT has recognised the need for an annual regatta to showcase the crews and to generate strong competition. To this end the traditional Head of the Lake has been reinvented as the Federal Head of the Lake. This schoolboys event has the support and sponsorship of the Australian Sports Commission Breaking the Drought campaign and the ACT Rowing […]

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ACTRA Regatta – Results now available

The regatta results from last Saturday and the updated rower scores can be seenhere andhere. Many thanks to the BROs who did a fantastic job running the regatta to schedule when they were short on numbers. As usual, they had their patience and sense of humour with them. ACT Rowing Championships – Update In the next few days, we will publish the final rower scores for the season for each member in a club by club format and also thethe club point score to date. There are less than 3 weeks to […]

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ACT Rowing Championships 24-25 March – Order of Events published

The Order of Events for the ACT Rowing Championships can be found here.

  • Heats and finals will be run for all events. Heats will be held in the morning with finals in the afternoon. Finals will be conducted in the order indicated in the order of events. Only A Finals will be conducted. Heats will be held in the morning for events with more than 6 entries, all others will be straight finals in the afternoon.
  • The Order of Events can not be changed to accommodate rowers wishing to enter conflicting […]

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ACTRA Regatta – volunteers needed

Entries for the regatta this weekend have indicated that it will be quite a small regatta with close racing and an early finish. The last race is scheduled for 11.10am. To ensure the regatta runs safely and efficiently, we require at least 2 volunteers from each of the competing clubs (Daramalan, Radford, CRC, BMRC and CGS). Ideally we would like one of the volunteers to have a boat driving licence. This is a great opportunity for coaches to get on the water and follow their crews racing or parents and friends to get an up close view of competition. Please […]

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Radford College Regatta – Results

The results for last Saturday’s regatta can be found here. Revised Rower scores and point score will be published in a few days. Boats Wanted for New Rowing Club Do you have an old boat (any size) or rowing equipment that you want to off load? Do you want it to go to a worthwhile cause? A new rowing club is starting on the Gold Coast (so new it does not even have a name yet) and is currently requesting donations of any surplus or damaged equipment. If you can help contact Eric on (07) 5580 […]

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Radford College Regatta – 24 Feb 2007 – Final Draw

The final draw for the Radford Regatta is now available here: schedule; draw; program. We will be using the REVERSE TRAFFIC FLOW again map is here. The reverse traffic flow is only to be used for the during the the regatta and for 30 minutes before, ie 7am. Please exercise caution around the Black Mountain buoys and stick close to the course buoy line when traveling to the start. Clubs and Coaches please make sure all rowers and coxswains are aware of the reverse […]