LEGION OF ROWERS http://www.lor.kiwi

Maintaining Connections – Past, Present and Future

JUNE 2018 NEWSLETTER

Firstly, a very sincere thank you to all Legion Members who have joined for the first time, or renewed their Membership for the 2018 Season. We do ask that you also encourage your rowing associates to consider joining the Legion to help support our Junior Rowers in their quest for International Rowing achievements. Our Membership is steadily growing, but the costs for our Junior Rowers and their families are increasing too. I believe we have one rowing family with their 3rd child heading overseas to compete at the World Junior Champs in the Czech Republic in August this year.

Secondly, thank you to all competitors and supporters for a very successful Masters Legion Regatta on April 7th 2018 – this event was jointly organised and adjudicated by the Legion of Rowers and Karapiro Rowing. Thank you to Te Awamutu Rowing Club for providing the catering. The feedback from our 2018 event was even more positive than 2017 – which, as part of the organising committee was fantastic for us to hear.

We do welcome suggestions for further improvements. We may not be able to implement them all, but are keen to grow our Legion events in all ways possible.

Getting it right It was that much!! Kids get medals too

Junior Rowing Awards are worth DOUBLE this year We are very pleased to announce that the Legion of Rowers Junior Award is doubling in value this year. There will be 4 awards each worth $1500 and in addition the Legion is offering the Junior coach and management team the opportunity to gift up to $1500 to rower or rowers that would benefit from the additional financial support. The Junior Award information has been sent out to all Junior team members and is on our website www.lor.kiwi. We look forward to receiving the applications.

Thank you for your support in making this possible!

Successful recipients of the Legion Trust awards will be notified in a Team farewell at Karapiro in July 2018 (exact date yet to be confirmed). As well, all members of the team will receive a small gift from the Legion Committee. The Juniors will be competing from 8 to 12 August in Racice, Czech Republic.

This year’s New Zealand Junior Rowers are: Junior Women’s Single Scull Veronica Wall, Asburton Rowing Club

Junior Women’s Coxless Four Kayla Baker, Nelson Rowing Club Brooke Kilmister, St Peter’s School Grace Watson, St Paul’s Collegiate Holly Mills, Diocesan School for girls

Junior Women’s Quadruple Scull /Reserve Junior Women’s Double Scull Squad of Six Stella Clayton-Greene, Hauraki Plains Rowing Club/Waikato RPC Sophie Egnot-Johnson, Westlake Girls High School Mollie Gibson, Ashburton Rowing Club Kathryn Glen, Villa Maria College Jamie Harris, Wanganui Collegiate Rebecca Leigh, St Peter’s School

Men’s Single Scull James Hall, Rowing Club/Auckland RPC

Junior Men’s Quadruple Scull William Thompson, Hamilton Boys' High School Sam Cummins, King’s College Zackary Rumble, Canterbury Rowing Club/Southern RPC Harry Church, Saint Kentigern College

Junior Men’s Coxless Four Flynn Watson, Hamilton Boys' High School Elliott Jenkins, Hamilton Boys' High School Campbell Couch, Hamilton Boys' High School Will Gilbert, Christchurch Boys' High School

All Legion Members enjoy hearing the tales from our Junior Award Recipients – about the Regatta, how they and their colleagues performed, impressions of the country they have the fortune to visit and anything else they are willing to share with us. We look forward to sharing this with you later this year.

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Dairy Dates

5 August 2018 Legion of Rowers AGM, to be held at 11 am, at the Auckland Rowing Club, Rob Bristow will be the special guest speaker. The Legion’s Annual Report will be circulated shortly.

11 August 2018 – Mercer Masters Regatta, Mercer

1 September 2018 – Rotorua & joint Masters Regatta,

N.B. The Legion regatta proposed for July 7th on Lake Rotoroa, Hamilton will not occur this year due to these other regatta opportunities for Masters Rowers. Instead, the Legion will be assisting at both the August and September regattas.

15 -16 September 2018 – Rowing New Zealand - NZ Masters Championships, Lake Karapiro Rowing New Zealand

20 – 21 October 2018 – Masters Weekend away (Labour weekend), Hawkes Bay.

27 April 2019 – Legion Regatta run in collaboration with Karapiro Inc.