Grafton Rowing Club Newsletter - April, 2002

“THE CLUB IS FOR EVERYONE OF ALL AGES YOUNG AND NOT SO YOUNG TO ENJOY A ROW, A PADDLE, MEET NEW FRIENDS AND ENJOY A DRINK OR TWO AND  SOME PLEASANT COMPANY”

MEMBERSHIP FEES ARE AS FOLLOWS

 Family Rates are available, see Amanda or Don

Also it may be worth a phone call to your Health Fund to see if are eligible to claim the rowing memberships, Most Health Funds will refund an amount

Memberships will not be taken on the day of a Regatta

Please also remember its In your interests to be a paid member this ensures you are covered by the insurance cover within your membership, We don't want anything to happen out there!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO ARE THE C0MMITTEE??????????????????????????

GRC 2001/2002 COMMITTEE

GHS COMMITTEE

MAY 18 & 19 NSWRA MASTERS GRAFTON ONLY 5 WEEKS TO GO

 Entries will be open soon, so get those crews organised, and best start training.
Plans are well underway for the huge weekend coming - if you want to help out in any way, please let us know, we do need extra hands during the entire weekend.
Lots to do, and thank you to everyone who has indicated they are helping so far

Ooooooohhhhh Its getting exciting

Saturday night Dinner Dance is $30 per head, numbers to be confirmed as soon as possible

PRESENTATION NITE, FRIDAY 24.5.02

Roches Family Hotel 7.30 pm

CHS RESULTS 21& 22 March

A large group of rowers from South Grafton High School and Grafton High School travelled to Penrith to again compete against the city rowers. South high dominated the regatta winning 11 gold medals, Maclean High also enjoyed outstanding success, winning five gold medals and finished third in the CHS championship, behind South High and Taree. GHS were successful with the Women's Eight.

Congratulations to all who competed and had a win.

NATIONALS, NAGAMBIE DAM, VICTORIA, held in March

7 very keen South High rowers travelled to the Nationals held in Victoria enjoying the high level of competition. Katie Darke, Karla Bowling, Melissa Brown, Aleisha Smidt with James Eather as Cox came second in the under 17 quad, first place was taken out by the 4 best girls in Western Australia in a composite crew which only narrowly beat our Southies in the A final. A huge effort.

The competition was so fierce Liz Lang and Sam. Donovan rowed a double in the Under 19 heats, but were unable to get through to a final.

Karla Bowling, Melissa Brown, Liz Lang and Sam Donovan won the B final in the quad which equates to eighth in the whole of Australia, so they all did extremely well.

Also LCRC were represented by Martina Smidt who rowed into a C final in her single and Sarah Eke also came a very credible 4th in her A final 

Well done to everyone, really shows the terrific level of rowing in the Clarence at present

CORE STABILITY

Louise Glass conducted a session with everyone in the muscles used and their 3 major functional roles, which are, control posture (static), control movement (dynamic) and feedback to the brain. Her session was very informative, and by doing some simple and very useful exercises can improve your Core Stability and will lessen your risk of injury and enhance your performance. Louise has provided a program which is at the back of the newsletter, so have a look and if you can get a group together or just attend on your own to take full advantage of the 8 week program.

Thank you Louise and Grafton Physiotherapy and Sport Injuries Clinic

SEAT MONEY

This is a reminder to all competing rowers, the "pay with nominations!' is going well

PLEASE ENTER YOUR MONEY TOGETHER WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS FOR ANY REGATTA OR YOU WILL NOT BE ENTERED IN THE DRAW

Please Rut your entries in the locked box on the TUESDAY NITE BEFORE THE DRAW THANKYOU

BOAT LOADING & UN-LOADING

This is gentle reminder for everyone who is rowing at Regattas to make sure they assist with the boat loading and un-loading - the more hands the less time it takes, otherwise you way get to a regatta and you may not have a boat to row! and where else can you effectively wear spanners as a fashion item??!!!!?? 

NOTE OF THANKS for everyone rowers, and parents. that turn up to load and unload. has been fantastic and the best in years

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

Just to clear up some questions about how old you have to be to compete in an aged event NSWRA LAWS clearly state the following: for example: UNDER 15, A competitor ceases to be Under 15 on 31st December of the year in which he/she reaches the age of 15 years. which applies to all other aged events held at a Regatta

COACHING CLINIC LEVEL 1

The course went extremely well, 7 new coaches are now out there and will be honing their skills Congrat's to Bob Paterson, Peter Saye, Martin Hall, Michael Collins, Rob Bruce, Ann Coffins and Cheryl Cavanagh And A HUGE THANKYOU to Andrew Pierce who came up to conduct the course for us and Daph for the beaut tucker

REQUEST FOR THE MASTERS

Please help with cakes and/or slices for the canteen for the big weekend.

Grafton rowers, friends and family can you please assist in the canteen for half an hour in between races on both Saturday and Sunday, your help will be much appreciated.

and please don't wait to he asked, just bring your friendly smile along and help out.

WHO AM I???????

Hi, its me Peta Pritchard

WELCOMES

Welcome to the GRC family, Karen Elchmann, Rachael Hastings, Matt Scurrah, Kahlia Davenport, Karlie Little, Amy Green, Lindy Jones

glad to have you all on board

BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL

Jude McBean 14.4, Suzanne Paul 9.4. Peta and Leigh Pritchard 1.4, Katie Seewald 11.4, Lisa Casson 14.4, Alicia Coombs-Marr 4.4, Ciata Cooper 16.4, Earl Cruickshank 4.4, Graham Davis 14.4, Megan Ensbey 7.4, Pat Gallagher 9.4,

HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY GUYS Another year older,, another year wiser????????

MEETINGS

PLEASE come along, you don't need to be invited, just bring your ideas, thoughts, proposals along with you, the Club, both young and not so young members need your support. help and assistance to continue the success of the Club

New Meeting dates are going to be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, so here are some dates to note now

17.41 15.5, 19.6, 17.7, (which is race week). 21.8. 19.9, 16.10, 20.11

Masters Meeting 27.3.02

All BRO's are ready to go
Recorders are also ready to go. Tents. Power boats etc all under way
Still fighting weeds, weeds, weeds,, finer details emerge as time lessens

HAVE YOU SEEN IT YET ???????????

WOW its fantastic, great wonderful, very detailed, terrific, what a great job, I mean the mural that is up and WOW, come and have a look it continues the story of "The Croc" which started along time ago "Once upon a time, the river rats were rowing early in the morning, when "the croc" was first sighted and the first chapter, can be seen at Roches Family Hotel, and now the second chapter can be sighted again, as "the croc" appears on another of the "rats" training runs

GregRyan, you have done a stirling job, thankyou

DIP AWARD

A double whammy this month, as Temeka and Dennis both went for a dip, actually both were out with "Coach Ken" and Dennis tells me that it wasn't his fault it was Ken's fault that he fell in ??????????????????????????

Sure Dennis whatever you reckon

Both Temeka and Dennis are well trained now for "How to get back into your boat after falling in",
Which was the lesson for the day after all

All these contenders are making the final decision a difficult one

GRC SINGLETS

are available - just see Daph. The new singlets are now available for $30 each, they are made from a light lycra with the emblem embroidered, a very nice singlet to proudly wear.............. very groovy

GRC PHOTO ALBUMS AND SCRAPBOOK

Have a look at the photos of the past and present and if you have any you wish to add, please let me know, our scrapbook of newspaper items is growing all the time,

Pic's from the Regatta and winners from the end of season South Grafton Regatta are there

Are You In There?????

LEARNERS

2 sessions 8.30 am SENIORS and 9.30 am JUNIORS SATURDAYS

Again 2002 has kicked off with new faces turning up for the "art of rowing" and to enjoy the low impact sport, with great benefits for overall fitness and it's fun!

First lesson is free for an hour or so, after that is a mere $5.00 a session. which is deducted from your membership, which is also very reasonable compared to other sports

There are a devoted group of "merry men" and "merry women" to assist each week with the learners under the direction of "ACE" coach Ken Maughan

There is also a "GO ROWING" book available for $5.00, that gives you all the benefits, techniques and more on rowing, so catch up with Ann or Don on Saturday mornings if you would like one of these, they are for Learners or skilled rowers

In the event that the weather is not favorable, you can learn the skills on the erg's which can assist with technique and endurance

RULES OF THE RIVER

Always have land close to you, just in case you do go for a dip, while heading west row past the Crown, then cross over to Susan Island for your homeward trip and if you are heading down river (East), you row over near South Grafton Club, and back over to McCauley College side for the home journey

THANKS

Thanks to Neville and Ken for putting the screens In the women's showers

WATCH OUT IN THE NEXT ISSUE

THE MASTERS, THE MASTERS AND
UPDATE ON THE MASTERS

PRESENTATION NIGHTS

This newsletter is brought to you by  Ann, Chief and Editor. If you have anything to add to the next newsletter, please let me know. (66433347)

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