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Posted: May 3, 2016

Newly formed Eastern Amateur, the first coastal rowing club to sign up to Scottish Rowing’s Project Rio campaign, is aiming to increase awareness for the sport and get more people on the water.

Posted May 2, 2016

Gordon Day MBE

Gordon John Day MBE, who has died peacefully at 84, was a major figure in the sport of rowing in Scotland, first as an international performer - he represented Scotland at the 1958 Empire Games. He then became a national umpire, international team manager and significant administrator.

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Posted: May 3, 2016

George Heriot’s School’s rowing club is going from strength to strength since it appointed Head Coach James Davidson last August.

Posted: April 28, 2016

Inverness Rowing Club is the newest club to sign up to Project Rio as it stays on course to recruit more members and increase awareness for the sport in general.

Posted: April 27, 2016

There are many ways to benefit from Scottish Rowing’s Project Rio campaign which aims to capitalise on rowing interest generated by this summer’s Olympic Games.

Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University is planning to use the campaign’s promotional and coaching resources to recruit more students when the term resumes in September.

Posted: April 25, 2016

Dundee University’s burgeoning boat club is joining Scottish Rowing’s Project Rio campaign to further boost its membership numbers.

Posted: 23 April, 2016

The London 2012 Olympics had a profound effect on numbers of people taking up rowing.

So large was the flood of interest at Stirling Rowing Club that it only recently worked through the waiting list it accrued four years ago.

Posted: April 22, 2016

Scotland’s newest rowing club is beginning a membership drive which it believes will give people in Perth and Dundee their first opportunity to row.

Posted: April 21, 2016

Castle Semple Rowing Club is getting organised to make the most of an expected surge of interest in rowing following this summer’s Rio Games.

Posted: April 13, 2016

It wasn’t just the sun that was shining at Caversham as Scotland’s up and coming rowers made an early season statement of intent at the GB Rowing Team Senior, Under 23 and FISU Trials. The trials aim to identify rowers for the non-Olympic summer programme which includes the World Rowing Championships and World Rowing Under 23 Championships (both being held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands - 21-28 August) and the FISU World University Rowing Championships (Poznan, Poland – 2-4 September).

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Eastern Amateur Coastal Rowing Club on board for Project Rio

Gordon Day MBE 1932-2016

George Heriot’s plans to target younger age groups after signing up to Project Rio

Inverness expects ‘uplift of interest’ as it signs up to Project Rio

Heriot-Watt Boat Club aims to add more rowing members through Project Rio

Dundee University Boat Club looking to push membership to 100 after joining Project Rio

Stirling Rowing Club better prepared for Olympics second time around

Scotland’s newest club rowing club signs up to Project Rio campaign

More adult members is the focus as Castle Semple signs up to Project Rio

SCOTTISH ROWERS SHINE AT GB ROWING TEAM TRIALS

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