Newshttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/en-GB2009-07-05T03:08:39ZSquarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Henley Royal Regattahttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/30/henley-royal-regatta.htmlThe Editor2009-06-30T12:22:00ZTSS members will be racing in five events at Henley Royal Regatta. Proceedings start at 10.30 on Wednesday, with a first-round race against Molesey B in the Thames Cup. All other events start on Thursday, and timetable details will be published on the Henley website.

Diamond Challenge Sculls

Rodrigo Ideus successfully qualified on Friday, and so five TSS members are in the main draw: Alan Campbell, Mahe Drysdale (West End RC), Rodrigo, Tim Maeyens (Koninklijke Roeivereniging Brugge) and Olaf Tufte (Horten Roklubb), with all five of the Great Eight members having been selected.

Double Sculls Challenge Cup

Richard Hardy, in a composite with Pete Wells of Bryanston School, were pre-qualified.

Prince of Wales Challenge Cup

The TSS A quad (Toby Lonergan, Richard Twyman, Gareth Sharpe and Charlie Clarke) have been selected, while TSS B - Ed Griffiths, George Turner, Stan Livy and Simon Suthers - fought through the qualifiers for their place. The pre-qualified TSS/Molesey composite will feature a late appearance by 2008 Henley winner Mike Hennessy as a result of an injury to Max Stallard (crew: Ockendon/Taylor/Dunley/Hennessy).

Thames Challenge Cup

The eight of Nathan O'Reilly, Tom Wheeler, Nick Marriott, Graham Benton, Mark Roberts, Toby Marshall, Rob Irving, Jon Davies and Miranda Fisher have also been selected.  

Fawley Challenge Cup

The TSS/Walton composite featuring Jonathan W were pre-qualified. The J16 had a storming qualifiers, overtaking some other boats along the way and start the regatta on Thursday.

The TSS/IC composite women's eight for the Remenham Challenge Cup were unfortunate to be the fastest non-qualifiers.

]]>Eghamhttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/30/egham.htmlThe Editor2009-06-30T12:17:58ZThe juniors put out a record entry for Egham Regatta, with seven quads competing across nearly all the age groups, as well as doubles and singles, spread across the beginners group, the intermediates and the J13/14 racers.

Several crews were at their first proper regata, but all raced well against strong composition, and despite organisational challenges and an impromptu swim, a great day was rounded off with three wins.

Xanni and Gigi, on opposite sides of the draw, ended up racing each other in the final of WJ14 singles with Xanni just pulling ahead to take victory.

The WJ13 quad of Sophie, Saskia, Jackie and Hermione, with Xanni coxing her first race, found the draw somewhat daunting, but sailed through their semi-final against Henley. The final was against their close rivals - and friends - Eton Excelsior, but TSS prevailed with superb character.

Once again there were two TSS scullers in the same event, WJ13 singles. Saskia drew a talented Eton Excelsior sculler and pushed her very hard, but lost her heat in one of the fastest times of the day. Sophie reached on the final, where she had the race of her life against Eton Excelsior to win by just two feet.

Thanks, as ever, to Stevo for his fantastic job all day, to Judy, and to all the parents who came along to feed and support their children. And to one Mr Alan Campbell, who presented the prizes. JB

]]>Henley Picnichttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/24/henley-picnic.htmlThe Editor2009-06-24T12:09:12ZThe weekday ladies invite:

  • the crews (races permitting)
  • their families
  • the coaches
  • and all TSS supporters

to lunch in the Remenham Riverside car park from 12.30 to 2pm on Friday 3rd July.

Look for the TSS gazebo. All contributions of food and drink, or donations towards costs, gratefully received.

]]>World Cup IIhttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/23/world-cup-ii.htmlThe Editor2009-06-23T12:15:38ZAlan Campbell took the men's heavyweight singles silver medal 3.5 seconds behind Mahe Drysdale, with Olaf Tufte of Norway winning bronze at the second leg of the FISA World Cup series in Munich.

]]>Henley Women's Regattahttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/23/henley-womens-regatta.htmlThe Editor2009-06-23T12:13:55ZThe women's squad fielded four crews (including two composites) and three single scullers, all of whom faced tough competition in a regatta where numerous course records were broken several times over.

The junior women also boated two quads, one in the J16 trial event and the other in women's junior, an event that was won by a composite featuring club member Rachel Knaster, racing for the American School in London.

Honours went to Elaine Johnstone and London RC's Steph Cullen, who saw off Kingston RC (Canada), then beat Mortlake, Anglian and Alpha by a length and three-quarters to claim the Haslam Trophy for elite lightweight double sculls.

]]>Thames Valley Parkhttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/23/thames-valley-park.htmlThe Editor2009-06-23T12:11:19ZNotice of AGMhttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/17/notice-of-agm.htmlThe Editor2009-06-17T12:23:06ZThe TSS Annual General Meeting will take place on 21st July 2009 at 8pm in the Tideway Scullers School boathouse. All members are invited to attend.

The agenda is as follows:

  1. Introduction
  2. Safety
  3. Reports on 2008-09 - Chairman, Captain, Treasurer
  4. Plans for coaching 2009-10
  5. Progress on the new boathouse
  6. Proposed budget for 2009-10
  7. Election of officers for 2009-10, confirmation of trustees
  8. AOB

Nomination forms for club officers are on the clubroom noticeboard.

]]>National Veteran Championshipshttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/17/national-veteran-championships.htmlThe Editor2009-06-17T12:21:07ZThe National Veteran Championships attracted a record entry of 418 this year. TSS veteran men had a very successful regatta, returning with four gold medals and one silver - only Monmouth gained more wins in men’s crew boats. Mark Alloway and Chris Williams were involved in three of the wins, in the D4x, E4x and the D2x, made even more impressive by the fact that the D2x final was just thirty-one minutes after the E4x final. The F4- had a very strong row to take gold, beating a Derby crew that has been together for many years. In the F8+ race, TSS gave an eight-second handicap to a strong G composite from Minerva Bath and, despite a good row, was only able to make up about half that distance over the thousand-metre course.

Winning crews:

D4x Mark Alloway, Roger Swift, Chris Williams, Mike Peregrine
E4x Mark Alloway, Roger Swift, Chris Williams, Graham Bagnall
F4- Dickie Clarke, David Hudson, Francis Pinkerton, Frank Llewellyn
D2x Mark Alloway, Chris Williams

Graham Bagnall took silver in a strong F1x field.

]]>Reading Amateurhttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/17/reading-amateur.htmlThe Editor2009-06-17T12:19:39ZThe men's and women's squads raced on the Saturday of Reading Amateur Regatta as part of their Henley preparations, and returned with a win apiece.

The women's Intermediate 1 coxed four of Sophia Supple, Rhona MacCallum, Lindsay Muir, Emma Young and Rosie Cheetham started the day off with a handy win over Reading University, then had successes over Sons of the Thames and Osiris on their route to the final, where they beat University College Dublin by two lengths.

The lightweight quad of Simon Suthers, Stan Livy, George Turner and Ed Griffiths had a row-over in the first round of Elite quads, the other TSS crew having withdrawn, then beat Reading University by a comfortable margin in the final.

]]>Barnes and Mortlakehttp://www.tidewayscullers.com/journal/2009/6/17/barnes-and-mortlake.htmlThe Editor2009-06-17T12:12:05ZWhile the younger juniors were sunning themselves in Marlow, the J15 double of Nick and Otto were racing closer to home, at Barnes and Mortlake Regatta. Up against some challenging local opposition from St Paul's, the boys held their sculling together during the first part of the race, reaping the benefits towards the end when they finally believed they could do it, and raced home as winners.

From the junior men's group, both Matthews raced. Matthew W in his first-ever race in a single was ahead for most of his heat, but a combination of being taken out of the stream and the other sculler's strength meant that he was overtaken, but a good effort. Matthew S sculled strongly through his straight final to win his second event of the year.

Rob Pinckney, recently returned from a two-week 'summer camp' in the South of France, won Vet E/F singles.

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