Mildura Rowing Club

Mini Regatta

Our next mini regatta is being organised for Friday 26th of February. Members are encouraged to be at the Rowing Club at around 6-00pm so events can be worked out. These events create a great social evening with a bit of friendly competition between members and clubs. A BBQ tea will be available to finish off the evening.

Easter Regatta.

Henley on the Murray at Mildura on Saturday and Henley on the Darling at Wentworth on Sunday

The Clubs annual regatta, in Rowing Victoria’s calendar of events, will be held at Mildura and Wentworth over Easter. These events are quickly approaching. We would like to encourage members to start thinking about getting a crew together and start training if they are interested in participating. If you are looking to compete and would like assistance with organising crews or you would like to be nominated to join a coaching squad please advise by return email.

CLUB ZOOT SUITS

If you are in possession of a club zoot suit (6 still missing since last Easter) could these be returned as soon as possible. (to Louise Skinner louise@stockdaleleggomildura.com ).

We are in the process of doing an order for new zoot suits, hats and polo shirts, please advise Lou if you are interested in purchasing any of these items.

We also have a few second hand zoot suits that can be purchased for $30. New zoot suits will be approx $60.

State Championship at Nagambie last weekend.

You may be aware that 8 members competed at the State Championships at Nagambie last Saturday and Sunday. The events were strongly contested and Mildura Rowing Club was well represented in Finals with a few medals being able to make the trip back home. There has been a huge effort made by all MRC competitors at the Championships with early morning trainings sessions leading up to the weekend, travelling over to Nagambie and holding their own against strong opponents. The Committee of the Mildura Rowing Club is proud of members efforts and especially to their coaches putting long training hours. We would also like to acknowledge family members of the participants for their additional support.

Hopefully we will have a full story and photos available on our website shortly to describe a greater record of events.

Members who competed were
Stef Schneider
Ali Scott
Niki Scott
Giulia Iamarino
Alana Ashelford
Brett Davidson
Coached by Guy Wight

Luke Stephens
Eric Stephens
Coached by Dave Talbot

See you on the water

Click for a full size view.

A big thank you to everyone who helped organise our 100 Year ‘Back To’ celebrations for Mildura Rowing Club.  A big thank you also to everyone who travelled to participate in this milestone event.

A selection of photos from the weekend celebrations have now been posted to the Club Website.  Take a look.

World Masters Rowing

We have only heard a few stories from the Group in Sydney at the moment. The Ladies had a great row in the four on the Weekend and lead the field for more than half the race in one of the heats. There will be more stories to come as they are enjoying the atmosphere and meeting with all the other athletes so watch this space.

Bendigo Regatta

There will be a few Junior rowing members attending this weekend’s regatta in Bendigo. We wish them all the best to formally kick off our away competition season. There has been a fair bit of activity on the water recently with training and we have been advised that the Dimboola Regatta will be held in November as they have a full river for the first time in about 5 years.

Centenary Celebrations

Following this Sunday’s training session (18th October - say 10-00am), we would like a little support with a working bee for a clean-up around the club rooms. Planning for the centenary celebrations for the following weekend is in its final stage and we are expecting quite a few visitors to the club during the weekend.

Thanks for your support.

Rob Ellis
Club Captain

View from the bridge

The pictures tell it all!

Over last Sunday & Monday September 27 & 28, a combination of an environmental flow and good spring rains brought water down the Wimmera River all the way to the empty Dimboola Weir pool. Over the 2 days the water level lifted some 5 metres and consequently the river at Dimboola is now FULL!

Committee met on Monday night September 28th and resolved to proceed full steam ahead with the conduct of the 122nd Annual Dimboola Regatta, which has been cancelled for the last 3 years due to lack of water. We have notified RV of our request to proceed and are now awaiting confirmation from the Competition Committee - we do not currently envisage any problems in gaining full RV support.

We seek the support of all Rowing Victoria clubs and schools in order to help celebrate the return of rowing and in particular the traditional Annual Dimboola Regatta - we look forward to seeing you on Saturday November 21st at Dimboola.

The Dimboola Rowing Club will also host the Annual Horsham Regatta on Sunday November 22nd - make it a great double header rowing weekend!

Please note that in addition to the usual RV schedule of events, additional events to promote underage/school and masters rowing have been requested for both days: MU17, FU17 and M & F Masters 4 & 8. The Competition Committee will hopefully soon confirm these events.

Please forward this email to all your rowing contacts - we want your support to spread our great news!

John Nichols
Regatta Secretary
122nd Annual Dimboola Regatta
jnichols@netconnect.com.au

Thanks you for all participants during the morning. Everyone would agree that it was a much better day for rowing than Saturday. The morning mainly included Double Sculls and Quads/Fours in alternative events. Designated coaches were able to put forward multiple crews to fill Junior Male and Female races as well as members training for the World Masters in mid October. For those that aren’t aware, the World Masters crew is made up by members from Wentworth and Mildura rowing clubs. Other members from both clubs made up crews to create some challenging events under the handicap system.

Some of the highlights including;

·         Seeing a Junior girls 8 training on the water and then compete against each other in a quads scull race.

·         The World Masters mixed crews racing in a quad and a four went down to the wire.

·         Three Junior Male double sculls competing in multiple races to put their training into practice.

Thanks to the coaches for their involvement including Guy Wight, Bernie Currow, Geoff Talbot and Dave Talbot. We expect to start organising crews for the Bendigo Regatta coming up on the 17th October. I would encourage members to speak to their designated coach about participating or contact myself.

Thanks also to WIN TV for their attendance this morning and their continual support for promoting rowing in the local area and for Lindsay Strange for coming down to cook the BBQ.

Our next Mini Regatta will be held on Saturday 24th October at 10-00am and will be in conjunction with the Club’s Centenary Celebrations. Please note your calendar and for some members to work their training program into preparing for this event.

Today was a great start to the season.

Cheers for now.

Rob Ellis
Club Captain
Mildura Rowing Club
0148 548 316
www.mildurarowingclub.org.au

AGM & Awards Night
We are planning to hold an Awards night which will follow the AGM on Friday 28th August. The AGM will commence at 6-00pm, an official notice regarding the AGM will issued shortly. The Awards Night will be in the form of a Cocktail Party and will commence at 7-00pm. I have attached a flyer for further information.

Please get in contact with the following Table Captains to secure your seat.

Kylie Petschel/Stef Schneider, Louise Williams, Ross Skinner, Marg Curran, Geoff Talbot, Niki Scott or myself

Awards Night Wentworth Rowing Club
The crew from Wenty will be holding their Awards night on the following weekend, Saturday 5th September commencing at 7-00pm. Please let Bobbie Pappin know if you are interesting to attend by the 28th August via email bobbie@multimediaenterprises.com.au

Centenary Celebrations.
The Invitations have been send out for the Centenary Celebrations as the 23 – 25 October draws closer. There has been a great amount of interest generated by the event and Geoff Talbot and Bernie Currow have been extremely busy chasing up addresses to try and make sure as many people as possible get an invite. If you are talking to past members or friend who would like to know more about the event please ask them to contact with us. The weekend will be a big occasion for the Club and a large number of people are coming back to town for the celebrations. I encourage you to start organising your table for the Dinner on Saturday Night so you don’t miss out. Get your old crew together and make up numbers for a table.

A copy of the invite is attached just in case the one sent in the post went astray.

75k Rowathon
Wentworth Rowing Club are holding a Rowathon on 22nd August from Wentworth downstream to Fort Courage. The event was held last year with crews changing regularly during the day. It’s a great day and a real workout for the longer distant training. Anyone interested please also contact Bobbie Pappin on  bobbie@multimediaenterprises.com.au

Regards
Rob Ellis
President

King’s Billabong Nature Walk/Ride
Sunday - 31st May 8-30am
On the weekend of the 30th and 31st of May there will be a major function held at the Mildura Riverfront which will restrict access to the Rowing Club and the water.

Instead of rowing Sunday morning 31st May we are offering a Social function in the form of a Family Ride/walk at the King’s Billabong Nature Walk Area followed by a cooked breakfast at Lou and Ross Skinner’s home. Start time will be 8-30am to give people a little more time to get to the Nature Walk area.

Please find attached a flyer for more information and directions. RSVP to Louise on 0409 531466 to assist with catering for the cooked brekkie.

So get the cobwebs off your bike and your sneakers out of the cupboard and come along and enjoy the morning activity.

Level 1 Coaching Clinic

Boat Purchase.

Winter Training Program (Autumn)

Level 1 Coaching Clinic
Thanks to the support of Rowing Victoria and a Finance Grant from the Department of Planning and Community Development we are holding a Level 1 Coaching Clinic on the weekend of 13^th and 14^th of June. It has been tentatively booked in for Sunday 14^th of June to commence at 8 am. The course should run for about 5 hours. While the training will be on that weekend we are trying to be flexible to allow as many people to attend as possible.

The course will assist people develop their rowing skills and have greater confidence in assisting with the coaching of crews. While out first aim is to provide members with an opportunity to increase their knowledge of rowing we are also looking to develop a Coaching Panel to assist the club move forward to cater for the greater number of people showing interest in the sport. Over the next few months we will be looking to conduct Learn to Row programs, a Schools Holiday Program, Corporate Regatta and our own local competition. To create a Coaching Panel consisting of Beginners, Women and Experienced Rowers would be ideal for our club.

Some members might be interested in developing their own skills and this training clinic would be ideal. Support for people looking to be part of the Coaching Panel would have preference however I would welcome all expression of interest by return email as soon as possible. The cost for members of Mildura Rowing Club to participate will be $30. The normal cost is $117 per person.

People already indicating their participation are;

Guy Wight, Bernie Currow, Warren Lloyd David Talbot, Dave Carson, Pete Sandell, Cynthia Toose, Marg Curran, Louise Williams, Bobbie Pappin, Sam Cross, Rob Ellis.

Boat Purchase.

The Mildura Rowing Club Committee has, with great assistance from Guy, sourced the purchase of a 2007 model Race1 Lightweight Coxed Racing Quad with interchangeable rigging to a Four. We are in the final steps of completing an inspection with Tom Prime, Boat Builder in Melbourne. The purchase price is $10,000 compared to a new boat which would be in excess of $22,000. We are looking for assistance from our members to help with the purchase of the boat. The Boat would be ideal for use by our Female members, Lightweight men and School rowers. The interchangeable rigging is representative of the modern style boats which enables them to double up for Quad and Four racing at the one regatta so less boats to carry away.

To assist with the purchase of the new Boat could you please consider a personal financial pledge to help raise sufficient funds. We are looking for $5,000 being raised from our own membership base with the other $5,000 being met by the club.

Your Personal Financial pledges can be offered by return email. As we have more information on the boat I will forward it to you however in the meantime should you have any enquiries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Winter Training Program
We have had a few enquiries recently of people looking to commence land based training similar to last year. As the evenings are getting darker much earlier I am happy to coordinate this training to commence next week. The training will be conducted on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings commencing at 5-30 but it is flexible for late comers. The training will consist of;

Warm ups – Stairs and Hills,

20 minutes on the Ergo,

20 minutes Various training
Cool Down.

Please let me know if you are interested and what days and time suits.

Just a few good new items to share with you.

Weddings
Firstly, I would like to congratulate a few long term members of the Mildura Rowing Club following their recent weddings;

Ian Murdoch tied the knot with Jenny Watts and Warren Lloyd married Kirsten Rouse.

Queen’s College Rowing
Ali Scott, Daughter of Jeff and Anne Maree Scott, received some great news that she has been selected in a Queen’s College Rowing crew to train in an Eight for this coming season. Over the last couple of years Pete Sandell has been coaching a girls quad including Ali and 4 of her friends (Thea, Alex, Clare & Louise-cox). Furthering their education at University meant the crew was separated. Ali’s commitment to Rowing continued with early morning starts including getting up and riding her bike to the Yarra for rowing training at 5-30am.

Facebook
Mildura Rowing Club Facebook Group has been created by our computer wiz, Norm Tink. This is another great way for us to communicate especially as we move towards celebrating our Centenary in October and for the uploading of photos of events as they happen. For those current Facebook users, please have a search around for the site and put your request in to join the groups.

World Masters Games
The Ladies Masters Squad has commenced their training as they head towards their involvement in the World Masters Games also to be held in October. Encouragement and support would be appreciated to assist the ladies prepare for the event. More information will follow soon on their preparation.

Renmark Rowing Club
Renmark Rowing Club have sent out an invite for members to participate in their Masters Picnic Regatta on the 23rd and 24th May. I have attached a flier for people to consider and I will send out further information as it comes to hand.

Billabong Ride/Walk/Run
A bike ride, walk or run around the Billabong, is planned for Sunday 31st May as an alternative to rowing training. It’s about a 6.2klm trek around the Billabong and we will be looking to start and finish at Ross and Louise Skinners place with a BBQ to follow. It will be a family style event so kids are welcome. A flyer will be issued shortly for people to register their interest so get the dust of those bikes.