British Indoor Rowing Championship

 

For the fifth year running SRA/Trentham Boat Club attended the British Indoor Rowing Championships held at the NIA.  A little earlier than in previous years, so less time to prepare and get people involved, but we still managed to fill a 57 seater coach with children who wanted to take part; some new to the experience others you would say were like veterans with this being their 4^th time.


Sunday 26th October, 2008 was a fantastic day with non-stop racing from 9am-5pm with plenty of things to do in the competitor’s area like shops and games to keep everybody occupied. 


SRA/Trentham Boat Club's races started at 11.30am, which allowed plenty of time to get prepared after arriving. Children took part in almost every event; starting off from Year 7 J12 category they had to race for 2 minutes to try and get as many meters as possible. Year 8, 3mins and so on until Year 11 where they had to race the full distance of 2,000 meters.  Children were involved in team events to; this involved a team of 4 all rowing together over a certain distance, Year 7s 500m each, Year 9s 750m and Years 10 & 11 1,000m.


As a group, there were some amazing performances, mainly all getting a personal best.  Picking up a total of 21 medals in the team events and breaking championship records.  Poppy Emery achieved 4^th place out of 68 participants and was only 4 meters off 1^st place.  Lee Harrison, 5^th place out of 79 only 3 meters off bronze position.

Team Results

Gold and championship record Girls J14 event
Nicole Stevenson, Emily Butler, Eleanor Thomas, Becky Dell.
Gold Boys J14 event Matthew Fair, Joe Anderson, Tom Hall, Paddy Brookes
Silver Girls J15 event Tammy Bloor, Charlotte Mycock, Laura Cruxton, Lucy Cruxton
Silver Girls J12 event Carrie Lanceley, Jodie Tipper, Natalie Nixon, Francisca Ponce
Sliver Boys J12 event Ben Evans, Ryan Dennis, Dan Meakin, Ryan Harrison

Lee Harrison joined forces with 3 other lads around the country, who called themselves the oarsome foursome quite fitting really as they grabbed another team gold to go with the one they claimed last year.


With a total of 49 juniors racing this was a fantastic display of team work. Three schools took part this year; Trentham High School, St. Peter's High and St. Joseph's College.


Thanks go to Alan Renoylds, Gemma Lovatt and Sarah Butler who all helped throughout the day by getting children through the warm up and being with them in the holding bay.

  

British Indoor Rowing Record Holders Girls J14 Team Event 2008
Emily Butler, Eleanor Thomas, Becky Dell, Nicole Stevenson

The next indoor rowing event will be the English Championships held at The National Valodrome Centre in Manchester on the 8^th February 2009. Fingers crossed for another great day of racing.

 

For more information contact:

Darren Barton
Community Sports Rowing Coach - Stoke on Trent
M: 07813 911998

 

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Congratulations go to Darren Barton, Community Sports Rowing Coach, who won the Participation Coach of Year award at sportscoach UK's award ceremony, at the Dorchester Hotel in London, on 17 December 2008. 

To read more about the prestigious award and Darren's recognition click here.