Posted: 23rd August, 2013
Scottish Rowing is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Cobb as Chief Operating Officer.
Mike Morrice, President of Scottish Rowing said: ‘This appointment is a major step forward for Scottish Rowing and we all look forward to working with Amanda to ensure Scottish Rowing continues to grow and be successful on all fronts.’
Read more: Chief Operating Officer Appointment
SIX SCOTTISH ROWERS have today been selected as part of the GB Rowing Team for the World Championships in Chungju, Korea later this month.
After completing a hat-trick of 2013 World Cup gold medals, Edinburgh’s Polly Swann will once again take to the start line alongside Olympic Champion Helen Glover in the women’s pair. The duo have been unbeatable since they teamed up at the start of the year, collecting victories on the waters of Sydney, Eton Dorney and Lucerne.
Read more: SIX SCOTS SELECTED IN GB ROWING TEAM FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN KOREA
Dumfries Schools Rowing Association athlete Calum Michael has claimed four medals, including two golds rowing for GB, at the 2013 Coupe de la Jeunesse in Lucerne, Switzerland. The annual "Coupe" event is regarded as one of Europe's most prestigious U18 international regattas and this year took place on the historic Rotsee course.
Read more: Coupe Medals for Calum
Press Release For immediate release 31/07/13
ROWER RILEY BRINGS WORLD SILVER MEDAL BACK TO ABERDEEN
Aberdeen’s Iona Riley led the Scottish charge at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Linz, Austria, by claiming a silver medal.
One of five Scottish athletes competing at the Championships, 21-year-old Riley, a sports science student at Robert Gordon University (RGU), formed part of the women’s eight. She raced alongside Fiona Gammond, Rebecca Chin, Josephine Wratten, Yasmin Tredell, Fiona Schlesinger, Bethany Bryan, Nicole Lamb and cox Morgan Baynham-Williams.
Read more: Rower Riley Brings Home Silver
Posted: 26th July, 2013
Participants at the Scottish Disability Sport Summer Camp had fun trying out indoor rowing on Wednesday. John Blair of Scottish Rowing and Kirsteen Lyth of Castle Semple Rowing Club put 4 groups of children and young people through their paces with a 200m ergo challenge.
Read more: Rowing at SDS Summer Camp
Posted: 24th July, 2013
The Scottish Rowing High Performance Group and Executive Board have announced the Junior and Senior Teams to represent Scotland at the Home International Regatta in Nottingham on Saturday 27th July.
Read more: Scottish HIR Team Selection
Posted: July 2013
Edinburgh’s Polly Swann has completed a hat-trick of 2013 World Cup titles and claimed the overall leaders' bib at the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne.The regatta in Switzerland provided the GB Rowing Team with their final chance to test themselves against world-class opposition ahead of next month’s world championships in South Korea. In total, the British squad won two gold medals and one bronze, along with the overall 2013 world cup trophy.
Read more: Swann Completes Hat-trick of World Cup Titles
Posted: July 13th 2013
Rowers from University Rowing Aberdeen, a partnership between Aberdeen University, Robert Gordon University and Scottish Rowing took part in the world-famous Henley Royal Regatta last week in glorious sunshine and in front of huge crowds.
Iona Riley and Lewis McCue from Robert Gordon University and Gary Wilson made the 530-mile trip south to compete in crews comprised of British rowers looking to make the Great Britain Under-23 rowing squad this summer. McCue and Wilson raced in the Ladies Challenge Plate, which despite the name is for male crews just below a senior international level and Riley raced in the Rememham Challenge Cup, an event for international-standard women's crews.
Read more: Aberdeen Rowers at Henley Royal Regatta
Posted: June 25th 2013
On Sunday 23rd June Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association organised and hosted the 5th Aberdeen Inter-Schools Regatta which sees the wet start crews from their schools project race against each other. All crews had a maximum of 10 weeks rowing experience and raced each other in coxed quads over a 300m distance. There were 49 wet start rowers representing 6 Aberdeen City and Shire schools whilst the 100+ ASRA members had the rare chance to represent their own school with 7 crews representing 17 schools racing in coxed quads.
Read more: ASRA Inter-schools Regatta
Posted: June 24th 2013
Scotland's Polly Swann won a gold medal in the women’s pair rowing with Olympic gold medallist Helen Glover at the World Rowing Cup at Eton Dorney this weekend. It was a great regatta for the Scots with Sam Scrimgeour (LM2-) picking up gold as well as Alan Sinclair (M4-) and Imogen Walsh (LW2x) getting silver. A full report of all the weekend’s racing is available at:
http://www.britishrowing.org/news/2013/june/23/more-golden-moments-gb-rowing-team-eton-dorney
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