Rotorua Rowing Club: February 2012

Saturday, February 25, 2012

LEFT TO RIGHT ; NATALIE HILL AND OLIVIA ASHBY (IN THE BACKGROUND) JOHN PAUL COLLEGE

LEFT TO RIGHT; LEWIS MORRELL AND MATHEW BENNETT , WESTERN HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL

LEFT TO RIGHT; GRACE ERIKSEN, OLIVIA ASHBY RACING.

School rowing crews prep for the big ‘exam’.

The school rowing season’s well under way with the Mighty River Power Junior Regatta last weekend.

“This regatta, for us, is to sort out the most competitive combinations to enter in the North Island secondary schools regatta”said Head Coach Alastair Riddle.

There were favourable results in the Under 18, and Under 16 age groups. With two firsts, 3 seconds and 2 thirds.

The most important school regattas are the 2012 North Island Secondary School Rowing Champs(NISS) mid- March and the2012 New Zealand Secondary School Rowing Champs (NZSS or ‘Maadi’) , at the end of March, which is the final ‘exam’for the rowing ‘class of 2012’, finishing the season for the year.

“ Training has been stepped up over the last few weeks “ said Rotorua Rowing Club President , Glen Reichardt “with pressure on all rowers to attain their full potential. “

At both the NISS and ‘Maadi’ regattas, rowers will be representing their school first and Rotorua Rowing Club second.Glen Reichardt had this to say to crews;

“You have done the club proud over the season and I know you will continue this for your schools. Go for it.”

2012 MIGHTY RIVER POWER JUNIOR REGATTA 25.26th feb 2012

RESULTS

GIRLS U18 SINGLE

A Final: placed 1st (8:52.12)Crew: JPC - Natalie Hill. Coach - Glen Reichardt

GIRLS U18 DOUBLE SCULLS

A Final: placed 3rd (7:51.78)Crew: JPC - Olivia Ashby (stroke) | Natalie Hill. Coach - Chris Pearson

BOYS U18 COXED FOUR (N)

A Final: placed 2nd (7:31.84)Crew: WHHS - Stephen Wright (stroke) | Lewis Morrell | Mathew Bennett | Conner Spackman + Keely Gauge (cox)Coach - Glen Reichardt

BOYS U18 DOUBLE SCULLS (N)

A Final: placed 2nd (7:33.72)Crew: WHHS - Lewis Morrell (stroke) | Mathew Bennett. Coach - Glen Reichardt

GIRLS U16 COXED QUAD SCULLS

A Final: placed 1st (8:03.37)Crew: JPC - Olivia Ashby (stroke) | Grace Eriksen | Georgina Hyde | Angela O'Sullivan + Delaney Phillips (cox)Coach - Chris Pearson

A Final: placed 2nd (8:06.91)Crew: WHHS - Stacey Tamblin (stroke) | Emma Cronshaw-Hunt | Hannah Cox | Alice West + Phoebe Johnston (cox)Coach - Chris Pearson

BOYS U16 SINGLE

A Final: placed 3rd (8:27.14)Crew: RLHS - Bradley Grant. Coach - Alastair Riddle

2012 NEW ZEALAND ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS 13th feb-18th feb

WOMENS 1X (LIGHTWEIGHT)

A Final: placed 1st (7:35.96)Crew: RPCW 1 - Julia Edward Rotorua Rowing Club (RRC) and Waikato Regional Performance Centre (WRPC)

WOMENS 2X (LIGHTWEIGHT)

A Final: placed 1st (7:43.28)Crew: RPCW 1 - Alyce Pulford (stroke) | Julia Edward (RRC, WRPC)

WOMENS PREMIER FOUR

A Final: placed 2nd (6:33.40)Crew: RPCW 1 - Harriett Austin (stroke) | Emily Discombe | Paula Twining | Laura Fischer (RRC, WRPC)

WOMENS PREMIER COXED EIGHT

Laura Fischer(RRC, WRPC) | Harriett Austin | Amy-Kelly Horsfall + Caleb Shepherd (cox)

WOMENS PREMIER DOUBLE SCULLS

A Final: placed 3rd (7:00.65)Crew: RPCW 2 - Julia Edward (RRC, WRPC) (stroke) | Genevieve Armstrong

WOMENS PREMIER COXLESS QUAD SCULLS

A Final: placed 3rd (6:54.90)Crew: RPCW 1 - Julia Edward(RRC, WRPC) (stroke) | Genevieve Armstrong | Zoe Stevenson | Harriett Austin

WOMENS U21 COXED EIGHT

MENS U21 COXED EIGHT

WOMENS U21 FOUR

A Final: placed 3rd (7:02.09)Crew: RPCW 2 - Briar Murphy (stroke) | Allie Smith | Claudia Hyde(RRC, WRPC) | Erica van der Zanden

MENS SENIOR COXED EIGHT

Andrew Oliver (ex – RBHS, Westend Rowing Club)| Toby Chapman-Smith | Ross Hawthorne + Kirsten Wood (cox)Coach - John White

MENS SENIOR DOUBLE SCULLS

A Final: placed 2nd (7:11.06)Crew: BPCC 1 - Sean Watts (stroke) | Nigel van den Akker(RRC, BOP Academy Squad)Coach - Steven Finlayson

MENS SENIOR FOUR

A Final: placed 2nd (6:26.84)Crew: WKOC 1 - Matthew Glenn (stroke) | Andrew O'Connor | Thomas O'Donnell (ex-RBHS and Waikato Rowing Club) | Anthony Berkers

A Final: placed 3rd (6:33.56)Crew: WESC 1 - Dacey Caldwell (stroke) | Blair Jones | Joseph Nihotte | Andrew Oliver(ex – RBHS, Westend Rowing Club).Coach - John White

PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT; JULIA EDWARD , ALYCE PULFORD IN THE LIGHTLWEIGHT WOMEN’S 2X

PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT; GENEVIEVE ARMSTRONG, JULIA EDWARD CROSS THE LINE IN THE PREM WOMEN’S 2X

PHOTO; JEFF FRANCIS (FAR LEFT)

Edward and Francis selected to trial for elite/U23 squad

Following some great results at the NZ Championships over the weekend, the selectors have chosen two Rotorua Rowing Club rowers to trial for selection into either the Under 23 NZ Team going to the 2012 U23 World Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania from the 11th of July to the 15^th of July or the 2012 World Rowing Championships which will be held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria between August 15^th and August 19^th.

Both Julia Edward, rowing under RRC colours for the Waikato Regional Performance Centre (WRPC) and Jeff Francis (RRC, WRPC) are U23 so are theoretically suitable for selection into both regattas.

Elite and U23 Trialists

The Waikato RPC have 27 athletes selected for the Elite and U23 trials which begin on Saturday 25 February - 2 March. The athletes will be put through their paces with ergometer tests and on water seat racing. At the completion of the trials the NZ crews for the 2012 London Olympics and the U23 World Championships will be named. We wish the following WRPC athletes all the best for their up and coming trials: *Men: Club/RPC:*
Alex Kennedy	Te Awamutu RC, Waikato RPC
Andrew Healey	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Christopher Morrison	Cambridge RC, Waikato RPC
David Eade	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Eric Murray	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Evan Kennedy	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
James Dallinger	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Jeff Francis	Rotorua RC, Waikato RPC
Mackenzie Macky	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Michael Berry	Tauranga RC, Waikato RPC
Shaun Kirkham	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Tobias Wehr-Candler	Wellington RC, Waikato RPC
Tyna Williams	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Tyson Williams	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
*Lightweights:*	*Club/RPC:*
Adam Ling	Tauranga RC, Waikato RPC
Curtis Rapley	Tauranga RC, Waikato RPC
Finian Scott	Cambridge RC, Waikato RPC
Graham Oberlin-Brown	Te Awamutu RC, Waikato RPC
Toby Cunliffe-Steel	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
*Women: Club/RPC:*
Alice White	Hamilton RC, Waikato RPC
Ashleigh Hodge	Cambridge RC, Waikato RPC
Genevieve Armstrong	Tauranga RC, Waikato RPC
Georgia Perry	Cambridge RC, Waikato RPC
Sarah Gray	Waikato RC, Waikato RPC
Zoe Stevenson	Tauranga RC, Waikato RPC
*Lightweights:*	*Club/RPC:*
Alyce Pulford	Hauraki Plains RC, Waikato RPC
Julia Edward	Rotorua RC, Waikato RPC
*Adaptive*	*Club:*
Danny McBride	Cambridge RC

PHOTO Simon O’Donnell, Thomas O’Donnell, Andrew Oliver

The Coach and his ‘old boys’

At the 2012 New Zealand Rowing Champs recently Simon O’Donnell (temporarily-retired Rotorua Rowing Coach) met up with two of this ‘old boys’.

Thomas O’Donnell (EX-RBHS) , Simon’s son rows for Waikato Rowing Club in Hamilton now and Andrew Oliver(EX-RBHS) rows for Westend Rowing Club.

Both men were on the podium for the ‘Men’s Senior Four Oar’. O’Donnell‘s crew won the Silver medal in a time of 6:26:84 and Oliver’s crew won Bronze in a time of 6:33:56

PHOTO Julia Edward rowing in Lightweight Women’s Single Scull

Edwards races to the top….

Rotorua rowing hit a high today, with Julia Edward winning another yellow coat, a reward for a Gold medal in the Premier Women’s Single Sculls event, at the 2012 New Zealand Rowing Championships, held on Lake Karapiro this week.

Julia ,a sculler, uses 2 oars, as opposed to a rower who uses one. She is a ‘lightweight’ and must always remain beneath 57 kilos. It was a hard fought race and Edward deserved her win, taking first place from her friend and former racing partner Lucy Strack, in the last 50m.

Edward also took the Bronze in the Women’s Premier Double Scull event this afternoon, after a photo finish.

To ‘medal’ in a heavyweight event, is difficult for a lightweight rower, as their weight is usually proportionate to their body shape and theoretically they will have a shorter ‘reach’ than a heavyweight woman sculler.

The heavyweight rowers have no weight limits and are generally proportionately taller.

So our Julia is ‘performing well above her weight’, literally. Edward was the only ‘lightweight’ in the medals.

Julia is at least half a head shorter than her doubles partner; Genevieve Armstrong , who is 180 cm tall and weighs 68kilos.

Julia tips the scales at around 51kilos and is near 167.5cms tall. The event winners; Anna Reymer (stroke) and Fiona Paterson, who row for the Central Regional Performance Centre were taller too. Reymer is 174cm tall and weighs in at 71kilos and Paterson is 182cm tall and weighs 81kilo.