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GB Trials and Wessex Regional Team. Feb 08 Ryde's International Oarsman, Simon Jones, currently competing in Leanders colours recently competed in the GB Rowing Senior Trials, held in Hazewinkel, Belgium, where he was hoping to retain his place in the GB Lightweight Squad. The trials were held in single-sculls and Simon reached the semi-final, finishing in 9th place of the seventeen that started the trial. Commenting on his performance Simon said that he felt this was a "reasonable performance in a single scull for me. Unfortunately it will probably not be enough to force a seat race for the GB Lighweights Mens Coxless Four, the Olympic Lighweight event, as last years crew are the reigning World Champions and are unlikely to be changed for any reason other than injury or illness". He is however in a strong position to trial for one of the non-Olympic boats for the World Championships which is now his main aim for this season. Hoping to follow in Simon's footsteps is young Ryde Sculler Adam Edwards, who has his foot on the first rung of the ladder, having recently competed in the trials for the Wessex Region Junior Team, where he was selected to represent the region as the Boys J15 Single Sculler at the National Junior Inter-regional Regatta at the National Water sports centre, in Nottingham, in April. His selection maintains the Wightlink sponsored, Ryde Club's record of regularly providing Juniors for the regional team with the Club having representatives in the team in three of the last four years. Adam will attend a regional training camp in early April at Bryaston School in Dorset and then travel to Nottigham for the Regatta at the end of the month.
World Rowing Championships - Bronze Medal for Simon Ex Ryde Oarsman Simon Jones, now rowing for Leander has followed up his Henley win earlier in the year with a Bronze Medal at this years World Rowing Championships in Munich last weekend. Racing in the GB Lightweight Quad Scull, they finished second in their heat at the start of the week long Regatta to gain a place in Wednesdays repachage which they duly won putting them into Sundays Final.This was a race which Britain led from the outset with Germany, the USA and Denmark all jockeying for position behind them. In the final the crew got off to a good start and were never out of second or third place at the timing points – by 1500m and in the final sprint to the line they had enough in the tank to take bronze and challenge the French quite closely for silver. Italy were the race winners. "I thought we were going to get the French at the end said Simon Jones afterwards. "We started our sprint early to try and get them and then the wheels really started to come off with 10 strokes to go". Meanwhile his old Club colleagues at the Wightlink sponsored Ryde Club continued their final preparations for this years South Coast Rowing Championships on the 2012 Olympic Regatta Course, at Dorney Lake, Eton where the Senior Men our representing the Hants & Dorset Amateur Rowing Association and seven other crews from the Club are expected to compete in the Open and Junior events.
Rowing club picks up cash prize at award ceremony.
 CCPR, the alliance for national governing bodies of sport and recreation, held their prestigious ‘Sports Club of the Year’ award ceremony at Grange City Hotel last night. The awards were presented by football legend, Sir Bobby Charlton CBE. In association with the Foundation for Sport and the Arts (FSA), CCPR recognised sports clubs who have made an outstanding contribution within their community. The six finalists had all shown commitment and dedication in providing opportunities to make sport inclusive and accessible for all. The winners were awarded cash prizes between £1,000 and £6,000. The Ryde Rowing Club won out to pick up this year’s coveted ‘Sports Club of the Year’ prize, along with a cheque for £6,000. Based in the Isle of Wight the club offers a wide range of opportunities to become involved in coaching and competitions. As part of a pilot scheme, Ryde also introduced over 300 participants from local middle schools to the sport. Steve Bull, Junior Coordinator for the Ryde Rowing Club said: “We were really surprised about winning; it was truly an honour for a club like ours to be recognised for something we love doing. After tonight we feel even more motivated to continue introducing as many people to rowing as possible. “We would like to thank CCPR for this recognition and the FSA for making it possible for us to put more money into the club, improving the facilities for our members and volunteers.” Second place prizes were given to Newbury Volleyball Club and Rutland Sailability, who received £3,000 each. Third place prizes, worth £1,000, were awarded to Cleveland Orienteering Klub, London Meteorites Youth Baseball Softball Club and Lowestoft and Oulton Broad Swimming Club. Tim Lamb, CCPR chief executive, said: “CCPR is proud to be a part of the Sports Club of the Year awards and to
recognise community sports clubs in this way. Their volunteers devote countless
hours of their time encouraging participation in sport and it’s only right that
they are contribution is highlighted on nights like this.” ENDS
2006 round up Another successful Coastal Season has been completed- with attendance at all fourteen Regattas and the South Coast Championships at Dartmouth. The Club achieved one Hants & Dorset Championship, two runners-up positions and one 3rd place and a total of 31 championship wins plus a number of other wins in the non-championship events. Although we only won one Championship the 31 points won across all Championship events made the Club the second most successful Club in the Hants & Dorset behind Itchen Imperial. R.C. Nick Pike secured a 3rd successive Mens Senior Sculls Championship with a dominating performance winning twelve of the thirteen races. He was often chased home by Ryde's other Senior Scullers - Matt Allsopp and Mike Jenner - who along with Ian Hayden and cox Penny Glazzard formed the Senior A Crew that won five Senior Races - which with the one point won by the B Crew of - Christy and Con Sullivan, Steve Salter, Ollie Bottrell and Cox Clare Salter gave the Club the runners-up slot for this Championship and South Coast representative honors for the A Crew. The Men's Junior Senior Squad of Adam Drockett, Sam Cocker, Dave Squibb, Ben Churchill and Matt Evans with coxswains Penny Glazzard and Jodie Cocker were involved in the closest H&D Championship finishing as runners-up with four points to Itchen with five. Southsea also had four points Ryde taking the runners-up slot and South Coast representative hhonors after beating them in a row-off. Two Ryde Junior Ladies crews won during the season - the A crew of Aimee Dibben, Hayley Edwards, Kim Salter, Rachael Brimstone and cox Adam Edwards winning twice and the B crew of Sophie Draper, Clarie Salter, Chole Attrill and Steph Goody once - giving them 3rd place in their Championship. Two wins for the Men's Novice crew of Jamie Lawson, Ian Dyer, Tom Clark and James Eklund with cox Bryony Reeve gained them promotion to Coastal Junior status and Ben Ade's two wins in the Novice Sculls takes him to Junior status in this discipline. The Club maintained its fine record at the South Coast Rowing Championships where its two representative crews - in the Men's Senior and Junior Senior Fours both finished second - and as the top Hants & Dorset representative crews. Then wins for the Men's Senior B and the Ladies Junior A as well as a second place for the Ladies Junior B in the invitation events secured the Club the aggregate trophy - and this overall performance gives them the Archie Fraser Trophy for the best performing Hants & Dorset Club in all events at the South Coast Championships Regatta for the 2nd year in succession.
Pat Sherwin
It is with deep regret that I have to advise you all that Pat Sherwin, MBE, Club Vice President and Trustee passed away, peacefully in his sleep on Friday Night.
Pat had been a member of Southsea Rowing Club for nearly sixty years and had served in almost every position at the Club including a stint of thirty-three years as Regatta Secretary. He was also a member of our Club where he was a Vice President and Club Trustee and served on the Clubs General Committee for many years.
Pat was a Life Vice President of the Hants & Dorset ARA and the Coast Amateur Rowing Association - and a former President of both. He had also served as Chairman of the Hants & Dorset ARA. He was also a Life member of the South Coast Rowing Council. He represented the Hants & Dorset ARA (Division 22) on the Amateur Rowing Association Council for many years, was the first Vice Chairman of the Wessex Regional Rowing Council when it was formed in 1984 and went on to be its Chairman for a number of years. His services to Rowing were recognised in 1994 when he was awarded the ARA Medal of honour - and a few years later with an MBE for services to Rowing.
There can be few people who have had such an impact on the sport and in particular Coastal Rowing and hardly a Club within the H&D or CARA who has not benefited from his advice and support at some time.
He will be greatly missed and our sympathy is extended to his family and to Southsea Rowing Club on their great loss.
I will forward details of the arrangements as soon as they are known.
Steve Bull
Ryde Junior Selected for J16 National Camp
A member of Ryde Rowing Clubs Junior Squad - 15 year old Tom Clark of East Cowes, a student at Cowes High School has been selected to attend the National J16 Sculling Camp, at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham over the Easter weekend. Tom was selected following extensive sculling trials in the Wessex Region during November and analysis of the results by GB Junior Coaches.
Tom will travel to Nottingham on the 14th April for a four day sculling camp with the top J16 Juniors in the country and will receive intensive coaching in all aspects of the sport from the GB Coaching team. This training camp is the first rung on the ladder for selection for the GB Junior International squad.
Tom is the second Ryde Junior to be invited to attend the National Junior Sculling Camp - following in the footsteps of Ben Churchil who attended the camp last year and has already gone on to win South Coast Championship honours for his Club and Association. Another Ryde Junior, 16 year old Ryde High School student - Kim Salter - is the reserve for the J16 Ladies training camp.
Tom's selection is also another example of the successful Junior program being run by the Ryde Club where their efforts have been recognised by the National Governing body, the Amateur Rowing Association, who have accredited them to run the National Junior Rowing program and Sport England who have awarded them "Clubmark" status. With the help of a part time Rowing Community Sports Coach, partly sponsored by Wightlink, IW Ferries, the Club has also been able to forge successful links with a number of Ryde Middle Schools, notably Bishop Lovett, which is helping to sustain the Junior program at the Club.
27th February, 2006.
Simon Jones (ex Ryde Rowing Club), selected for the GB Lightweight Coxless Four for World Rowing Championships, 2005, Gifu, Japan
Began rowing as a coastal rower on the Isle of Wight in 1994 at Ryde Rowing Club. Played club rugby and rowed at Ryde until the end of the sixth form. Then applied to study at both Bristol University and Imperial College, London. Was accepted at Imperial and began to row as a novice. Had the decision gone the other way he might have played rugby instead at Bristol. In his second year at Imperial he moved into the senior squad and won the Temple Cup at Henley. Was coached by Bill Mason at Imperial and, in his final year, Simon was part of the GB U23 lightweight men's four which placed 7th at the World Championships. That four went on in the same year to win the World Student Title in Poznan (2000). In 2002 was part of the GB lightweight men's eight which was fifth in Seville at the World Championships. Currently works part–time for Opus (a civil engineering consultancy) who are hugely supportive of his rowing, allowing him flexible working hours and having funded a boat for him. Simon has a younger sister, who does now row, and enjoys sailing in his free time. Finished 4th in Lightweight Men'a Pair at Eton World Cup, May 2005 and 5th in Lightweight Men's Pair at Munich World Cup, June 2005. Selected for the GB Lightweight Coxless Four for World Rowing Championships, 2005, Gifu, Japan. Crew:
Tuesday, 30 August, 2005 Despite "not exactly the best first ten strokes we've done
in a race", according to Nick English, the lightweight men's four acquitted
themselves well to finish second in their heat and book passage to the
semi–finals in a race won by the French with the USA in third.
Heat 3
Friday, 02 September, 2005 The
lightweight men's four were also competitive in the first half of their race,
holdling third position at 500m as very much part of the racing pack. Even at
1000m they were only 2.19 seconds off the lead. By the close, though, they had
dropped back to fifth and were clearly heavily disappointed. 1. Ireland 6:05.84
Sunday, 04 September, 2005 All six crews were virtually abreast for the first half of
the lightweight men's four B Final today. At 1500m the Russians had emerged as
leaders with the USA second and Britain in third. But it was still anyone's
race. Then South Africa appeared from the pack to take a late lead which they
held to the line. 1. South Africa 5:57.15 Junior Inter Regions Regatta Sunday 17th April
Ryde Rowing Club, sponsored by Wightlink IW Ferries, had nine members of their Junior Squad representing the Wessex Regional Rowing Council at the National Junior Inter Regionals Regatta, at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham, on Sunday, 17th April. This was the largest ever representation by any Island Rowing Club in a Regional team and confirms the strength in depth of the Clubs Junior squad.
The Regatta brings together the twelve English Regions in a team competition raced over 1500m in Coxed and Coxless Fours, Coxed and Coxless Quads, Double Sculls, Coxless Pairs and Single Sculls - for boys and Girls from J14 through to J16. Racing took place from 9.00am in the morning through to 6.00pm in the evening with a race every eight minutes. Regions were drawn into two heats of six the top three going into the final and the last three into a small final to determine the positions from 1st through to 12th with points awarded to the team based on the position finished - so every competitor gets to race at least twice.
For the Wessex Region, made up from Juniors from Clubs in Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight this was the first time they had been able to put out a full team - and it is still very much a development squad - trying to compete against regions who can draw their team members from the ranks of the Junior Internationals and the top rowing schools. Although the Wessex Region finished last in the team competition their points total improved from just 12 in 2004 to 76 and they should certainly be able to challenge the stronger regions in the future.
Ryde Juniors Tom Clark and Jamie Lawson competed in the Boys J15 Coxed Quad, James Eklund in the Boys J14 Coxed Quad, Kim Salter, Sophie Draper, Sarah Lamb, Rachael Brimstone and Jasmine Burr-Hersey in the Girls J15 Coxed Quad and Ben Churchill in the Boys J16 Single Sculls. Kim Salter and Rachael Brimstone doubled-up to compete as a Girls J15 double- and Ben Churchill doubled-up competing in the Boys J16 Coxed Four. Although none of the crews involving the Ryde Juniors reached their finals they all performed to or above expectations.
Ryde's Volunteer Coaches - Steve Bull, Nick Salter and Allan Evans assisted with the Coaching of the Wessex Team and Wightlink supported the team by providing cross-solent travel for the Ryde Juniors, Coaches and equipment.
These four Clubs have successful Junior sections and are all Amateur Rowing Association "Go-Row" accredited Clubs approved to run the National Junior Rowing programme. The Community Sports Coach Scheme (CSCS) is a scheme being delivered and is partly funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Sport England and the County Sports Partnerships and is aimed at establishing paid, qualified Community Sports Coaches who will be working at a local level over a number of sports. The coach will not only contribute to enhancing the quality of the Clubs existing activity, but will also provide the opportunity to generate substantial new activity over time, working to maximise the number of young people who will benefit. Employed on a full time basis for a period of three years, the Coach Rachel Redhead - who some of you have already met started work on the 13th May. Her position is being managed and administered by the ARA. Rachel is a twenty-one year old graduate from Sheffield Hallam University where she gained a BSc (Honours) in Recreation Management - and is a qualified ARA Rowing Coach who has worked part time for the ARA on a number of occasions. For the Ryde Club she will primarily focus on Club School links and the Club has received an enthusiastic response from the targeted Middle schools - Bishop Lovett and Mayfield and from Ryde High School. The hope is to be able to deliver dry rowing sessions within schools (on indoor rowing machines) which will encourage children to try the wet sessions, on the water, at the club. Rachel will also benefit the Ryde Club and community by enabling the club to take their development work a step further by providing a resource to support the existing club volunteer coaches; to mentor the club and school volunteer coaches to enable them to build a lasting coach structure; deliver sessions alongside club or school coaches in order to share knowledge and create a sustainable legacy and links will also be formed or strengthened with other groups in the community such as youth groups, crime diversion schemes, health schemes and people with disabilities, single mums etc. Rachel will be operating at all levels from complete beginner to the Clubs competitive Junior Squad.
Ryde Rowing Club Gain Sport England Clubmark Status
The Sport England Clubmark scheme - a National cross sport quality mark- - has been developed to enable children and young people, their parents and carers and others with interest in sport to recognise - across a range of different sports - clubs that are committed to providing a quality experience. The award of Clubmark status recognises and accredits Clubs that are committed to providing a safe, effective and child friendly environment for children and young people and is an integral part of the Amateur Rowing Association, the sports governing body, own development work with sports clubs. It sets standards to which Clubs should aspire and sets criteria which must be met and are inspected for in the following categories - duty of care and child protection, coaching and competition, sports equity and ethics and Club management.
Clubmark status will benefit the Club by promoting the Club, gaining support from sport professionals, increasing membership, and developing their coaches and volunteers.
Clubmark supersedes and expands on the Clubs NJRP (National Junior Rowing Programme) accreditation gained in 1999 and reaffirms the Clubs commitment to the development of Junior rowing.
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Ryde Rowing Club has
joined with three other Rowing Clubs based in Southampton - Itchen Imperial,
Coalporters and Southampton - to appoint a Rowing Community Sports Coach.
