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CLUB WAIKATO Club Waikato Rowing Supporters May 2014 CLUB WAIKATO PRESIDENTS REPORT. It is a very healthy greeting from your supporters club. Our support and association with the Waikato Rowing Club makes us a very proud group. We were the top club at the national championships after winning multiple medals and two of our four schools that attended the Maadi Cup won both the Under 18 boys and girls eights and girls under 18 single along with success in a range of other age group events. The Waikato Regional Performance Centre also showed class and were proud to supply many world class athletes to NZ representative squads. The question is asked from time to time – who is Club Waikato Supporters? Club Waikato was started in 1993 by our WRC founder Jack Worth. The supporters club aims to assist the Waikato Rowing Club in the running of the club and its events, and we encourage all WRC members, families and friends to become a supporter’s club member. Any monetary assets are invested with the interest granted back to the WRC annually. At present this annual grant is between $2,500 and $3,000 and is put towards particular club needs such as new plant and facilities. The financial aim was to have an invested sum of $100,000. We currently have an invested sum of $86,000. As per an agreement between Club Waikato and Waikato Rowing Club we have forwarded a $30,000 loan to the WRC to cover the costs of the extensions to our town house erg room – magnificent results that have enhanced our facilities. Gil Cawood CLUB ROWING. The WAIKATO ROWING CLUB SCHOOLS. The schools are an important part of the Waikato Rowing Club had Waikato Rowing Club, with the majority of our membership coming from Hamilton a stronger contingent of Boys High School, Waikato Diocesan, Hamilton Girls High School and St John’s rowers competing at the College. All four schools were represented at the 2014 Aon Maadi Cup. Hamilton North Island Club Champs Boys High School made took down a large contingent to Maadi and made it into 20 A and New Zealand Rowing finals, 4 B finals and 1 C final and bringing home 7 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals. Champs this year with a Waikato Dio made it into 11 A finals and 4 B finals. They were again dominant in the combination of club and sweep events winning 3 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals. Hamilton Girl’s High senior rowers along with a School continues to grow their program and show improvements every year and is select few of senior school proud to have made it into 3 A finals, 2 B finals, and 3 C finals. Their U18 single rowers. WRC won 7 sculler Georgia Allen brought home a gold medal for HGHS and has made it into this bronze, 4 silver and 10 year’s New Zealand Juniors squad. Congratulations to Hamilton Boys High whom gold and these results won the Boys U18 eight Maadi Cup along with Waikato Dio who snapped up the girls reflect the hard work U18 eight Levin trophy by a comfortable margin. Well done to all those whom they’ve put in over the competed, your Waikato Rowing Club are proud to have you row out of our sheds. season. WELL DONE to one of our Waikato Rowing Club coaches Chloe Macfarlane whom has spent the season away from the Waikato Rowing Club, coaching Hillcrest High School whom achieved gold in the girls under 16 coxed four at Maadi Cup this year. WAIKATO REGIONAL PERFORMANCE CENTRE. The Waikato RPC had its most successful NZ National Championships since 2009 with 9 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze medals and we gained the Bankstream RPC point’s trophy. From this success we had 7 athletes selected into the NZ Elite Team, 10 into the U23 Team and 4 into the U21 Team. We wish all these athletes the best with their International campaigns. The remaining few athletes left for the Winter in the WRPC are being guided by Mike Gilbert and Tom Stannard four days a week at Lake Karapiro in our Winter Development Program. We have a number of school leavers’ who have joined this program with the goal of being selected for the WRPC in September for the coming domestic season. AJ Harper THANK YOU. We would like to thank our club members whom are providing services to the Waikato RPC on and off the committee with a special appreciation to Alec Auld in particular for the endless support he provides. WAIKATO UNIVERSITY ROWING CLUB. The Waikato University Rowing Club competed in the Aon New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Waihola, Dunedin on the 19th and 20th of April 2014. They competed against rowers from Auckland University, Lincoln, Otago, Canterbury, Massey (Wellington), Victoria, Xi’an Jiatong and Fourth Medical Military Universities, as well as Auckland University of Technology. Twenty six students and five coaches from the University of Waikato attended this event. The men’s championship coxed four and women’s tournament coxed four crew both won their respective classes. The men’s championship coxed quad sculls, women’s intermediate double sculls and women’s champ double sculls crews placed second. The men’s intermediate double sculls crew placed 3rd. Joshua Earl and Christie Davis placed fourth in their respective championship single classes. Congratulations to everyone involved. MASTERS ROWING. A group of masters from the Waikato Rowing Club made up a part of the New Zealand contingent who travelled to Turin, Italy last August to compete in rowing at the World Masters Games. They had a successful regatta that was run on Lago Di Candia, Turin winning 1 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals. What a great experience it was for all involved, well done. LAKE SHED. Out at the WRC TOWN SHED. Over the summer the WRC town shed has undergone a lake shed we have had a makeover, with the extension of our erg room increasing the amount of large increase in athletes and space our athlete’s now have access to train in. We would like to foot traffic through the acknowledge the large amount of hours that our club volunteers have put sheds. We are pleased to into this project – without the help of these people through organizing report that the ablution area and working alongside builders, sourcing materials and outing in labour is in better working order after work and during weekends, this extension would not have been than it has been in the past possible. thanks to our volunteers who have worked alongside Alec Auld and Andrew Myers to make this possible. Our athletes can now rest assured knowing that they have healthy and hygienic facilities to train in. CLUB AWARDS EVENING. WRC held their annual awards evening in March. Every year Club Waikato fund the awards night and this year was again a successful evening with the majority of club, senior and RPC rowers attending along with senior crews from our schools in total we had 110 attend. Thanks to the masters women for organising the catering for the night and to WRC for providing the drinks. We had the privilege of listening to guest speakers Mayor Julie Hardaker and world champion cyclist Alison Shanks whom both provided and enlightening address to us all. Congratulations to the following people for receiving awards at our annual awards evening: Bannockburn Shield – Supporter of the Year – Lynne Malcolm Weit Hautman Trophy – Contributed most to the Club’s wellbeing – Phillip Petch Merv Waters Trophy – Coxswain with most points – Victoria Wilson (Dio) Dan Trophy – Most conscientious coxswain – Jamie Hepworth (HBHS) Pavlovich Trophy – most conscientious oarsman – Adele Stead (Club) Bob Currie – most improved rower – William Guest (Club) Ron Cuff Memorial – most promising junior – Liam Herder (Club) Stuart Burns Memorial – most promising senior – Georgia Allen (HGHS) Forest Lake Trophy – most points at regattas – Jacob Prier & Rhys Bain (HBHS) John Pinfold Memorial – most outstanding oarsman – Alex Bardoul (WRPC) Owen McGaughey Trophy – most outstanding performance of the season (crew) – Waikato Diocesan under 18 eight Waikato Wonder Woman – most outstanding oarswoman – Brook Donoghue (WRPC) The Most Promising Novice Oarsman – Quinn Tupaea (HBHS) The Most Promising Novice Oarswoman – Holly Nixon (Club) Murray Maxwell Trophy - Most outstanding coach – Garry Robinson (Dio) Club Waikato Trophy – outstanding service to the Club – Hamilton Boys’ High School Rowing Alec Auld Cup – Most outstanding WRPC Oarsman – Anthony Allen Andrea Harper Cup – Most outstanding WRPC Oarswoman – Claudia Hyde Red Coats: Alex Bardoul, Anthony Allen, Mckenzie Macky, Georgia Perry Representatives from Waikato Rowing Club and Waikato WAIKATO ROWING CLUB CATTLE SCHEME. RPC to World Championships: Having had a summer full of drought it has been a tough few months for our cattle WRC Other Clubs within WRPC scheme supporters. However the recent Elite Elite downfall of rain shows some promise for new Eric Murray Juliet Edwards growth in the near future. We wish our cattle Sarah Grey Curtis Rapley scheme members luck for the fast approaching Georgia Perry cold months, again Club Waikato and the Zoe Stevenson Waikato Rowing Club are very appreciative of Adam Ling the support you provide through grazing cattle Under 23 World Championships in order for our club to raise funds. Shaun Kirkham Alex Kennedy Evan Kennedy Mathew Dunham Allie Smith Claudia Hyde Caleb Shepherd Briar Murphy (reserve) Paddy McInnes Alex Bardoul Antony Allen Junior World Championships Brooke Donoghue Georgia Allen Toby Cunliffe-Steel BEREAVEMENT. It is with sadness that we report the loss of two great people within our rowing community. An ex- Hamilton Boys High School rower and a hugely influential face in Waikato and New Zealand rowing, Andrew Healy passed away at the end of March at the young age of 23.

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