25/01/12

24 Hours of Rowing!

This Thursday SURC will taking on the hardcore challenge of a 24 hour indoor row! Our latest fundraiser is to raise money for a new boat so that the indoor rowing talent at Swansea can be transferred onto the water. Three teams will be participating at Tesco Fforestfach on Thursday 26th January. Hopefully there will be over 1,000,000m of rowing done by SURC!  Anyone looking to support SURC can contact us on swanseaunirowingclub@gmail.com.

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07/12/11

The Welsh Indoor Rowing Championships!

The past weekend was the Welsh Indoor Rowing Championships held at Channel View Lesure Centre in Cardiff.

As with every year Swansea University went along to test out fitness levels, set new personal bests or receive a much needed reality check.

All Levels of rowing took part over the day with special categories for junior, students and veterans.

Well done to Jon Eardley and Bryony Lloyd who pulled the best times for their squads - Both Captains leading by example.

 

After last years close defeat by 1.2 seconds the senior men made up for it this year with a convincing win over their Cardiff counterparts.

Swansea University Senior Mens A team.

Full results from the event can be found at http://concept2.co.uk/nationals/results?race_name=welsh

 

Check out the photos in the Gallery section!


 


22/11/11

Bristol Head Results and Report

SURC attended Bristol Head race on Saturday 19th November, with the senior crews starting off the day racing 3200m down the River Avon. 

The senior men’s first four came 4th with a time of 12:14. Men’s Captain Jon Eardley said,

“A mix up with boats meant that we were very rushed getting ready for the race and had no time to set it up for us properly but we had an ok result. A promising start given the situation” The Senior men’s second four came 5th with a time of 13:28.

The senior women entered a coxed four and an eight in the intermediate category. The coxed four came 4th out of nine with a time of 14:01. A pleasing result considering problems with the foot plate seconds before the start, causing Cat to row with one leg! The women’s eight came 5th with a time of 14:04. Crew member Lorna Carter reflected on the race.

“ It was promising start to the year with a good first race and a fair result to go with it. We know where the squad's strengths and weaknesses lie so we will now build upon this to improve for the coming year.”

The novice races were up next (their first race ever), rowing 1200m down the River Avon.

The novice men four had the best result of the day coming 3rd with a time of 5:05 beating rivals Cardiff eight by twenty seconds! The novice men’s eight came 15th out of 25 with a time of 5:00. Words from novice Captain Callum Hughes,

 “So proud of the boys putting in two great performances and I'm happy that we managed to enter a coxed four in the beginner category for the first time.”

The novice women entered an eight coming 17th with a time of 6:30. The girls have had little water time due to access to boats and bad weather; with the return of boats they’ll be hoping to turn this around in time for the next race.

Crews
1st Men’s coxed four - Stroke Ed Hares, Igor Licko, Jon Eardley, Chris Ryder
2nd Men’s coxed four- Stroke Callum Hughes, Ollie Thomas, Leighton King, Chris Hill, Cox Amy drawbridge.

Women’s coxed four- Stroke Ania Negele, Georgina Watling, Cat Long, Phoebe Wright, Cox Kate Godding
Women’s Eight- Stroke Dani MartinTaylor, Jenni Pearson, Lizzie Urry, Natasha Cook, Ruth Worgan, Kate Housby, Lorna Carter, and Elizabeth James Crook.

Novice Men’s coxed four- Stroke George Lance, Sam Cunningham, Tom Rowlands, Dave Marsh, Cox Ed Hares Novice Men’s Eight- Stroke Hamish Yates, Jake Loomes, Adam Walton, Stephan Stoilov, Matt Mayer, Sam Pyzer, Rob Dodd, Alex Edwards, Cox Dani Martin Taylor.

Novice Women’s Eight- Stroke Ruth Worgan, Clarice Watkinson, Rhiannon Price, Issy Smith, Estella Thomas, Noami White, Kate Godding, Lucy Walsh, Cox Phoebe Wright.


For full results, please visit http://ubbconline.co.uk/UBBCHeadrace/

Well done to all that raced and survived the night out after!


15/11/11

Bristol Uni Head this weekend.

The four squads at Swansea university are all gearing up for their first race of the year at Bristol.

On Saturday the Senior men will be represented by two Fours, the Novice men an Eight and a Four.  The Senior Women will feature in an Eight and a Four whilst the Novice women will be racing an Eight.  

 

For the novices it is their first ever race, so best of luck guys.


05/11/11

Old news page.

To reduce the load time of the website, particularly for mobile devices older news is now stored on a new page.

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31/10/11

New boatman, at last!

Chris Hills has undertaken the huge task of being the SURC Boatman for 2011/12.  Whilst the club members will give him any help he asks for it will be no easy task and a full time job.

 

Good luck Chris!

Happy Halloween!



25/10/11

New members, Broken boats, Hill walking and a new sponsor!

At the start of the 2011/12 academic/rowing year SURC racked up an impressive 108 signatures, with around 70 actually turning up for training, as the weeks go on, the squads will with no doubt get smaller as people decided that the sport is too hard, and not for them.  However with the remaining members it is looking to be a good year for depth of squads. 

 

On a slightly less upbeat note, the novices are still awaiting their first water training session due to lack of rowable boats.  Over the last few years boats have taken wear and tear and a few accidents it seems to have all finally given in at once, with one Women’s eight and a four being the only usable boats.

 

Over the summer 7 members of the SURC team did between 20 and 30 miles sponsored walking for the Brecon Beacons Challenge to raise money for the club, between them they managed to raise a very impressive and much needed £1000. Special thanks to Kate, Caroline, Phoebe, Cat, Lorna, Georgina and Leighton. 

 

Our new sponsor for this year is RETRO.  The majority of our socials will be meeting here to start off our wild nights, so support our sponsor and turn out in force!



28/09/11

Freshers Fair starts today + Resignation of Boatman.

Today and tomorrow SURC will be at the freshers Fair taking all signatures of any one who wants to start their rowing career with us here in Swansea, so come and sign up.

 

Yet again, this years elected boatman has already resigned before any rowing has taken place as happened last year.  Is this position cursed?  If any members of SURC are interested in filling this position contact the club with the usual AGM format of proposer and seconder etc...

 

See you all at the fair.


10/09/11

Swansea Freshers, we need you!

As the new year approaches, as always we need new members to fill our novice and possibly senior ranks.  We welcome all abilities of rowing so don't be afraid if you're a total novice who has never rowed before.  You can find us in freshers fair or if you would like some information in advance please don't hesitate to contact the club's email account that can be found on the Contact page listed in the navigation bar - Dont forget to include which squad your enquiring about!

 

Hope to see you all soon for another successful year at SURC.


22/07/11

Committee Page updated for 2011-12

As with every year, a new committee has been voted in by the other members of the club. The full list of names and positions as well as a short message from each elected member can be found on the Committee Page in the upper navigation bar.



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