News 2005
Beginner's course
This year's beginner's course finished on Sunday Dec 11th 2005. Here are some of the "graduates".
Wallingford Head - 4th December 2005
| Event | Rank | Crew No. | Crew | Time |
| Senior 2 Eights | 9 | 164 | Wallingford | 18:50 |
| Women's Senior 4 Eights | 9 | 221 | Wallingford | 22:17 |
| Veteran D/E Eights | 1 | 197 | Wallingford (Vet E) | 20:52 |
| Veteran C Eights | 1 | 168 | Wallingford (Vet C) | 17:58 |
| School Coxed Fours | 1 | 120 | Wallingford/Upper Thames | 19:57 |
| Senior 3 Coxed Fours | 5 | 242 | Wallingford/Upper Thames | 20:14 |
Well done everyone, especially the pot-winners.
Full results are on the Wallingford Head Race web site .
Fours Head - Saturday November 12th 2005
To quote from the organiser's press release:
"Another crew worth watching in S1 4X- is Wallingford. Junior World champion and World Silver medallist in the single scull Zac Purchase join GB U23 quad silver medallist Doug Perrin and GB lightweight squad members Nick English and Paul Mattick"
Nick English and Paul Mattick are the Wallingford members of that crew (no 15 start position). Nick is an ex-Cambridge Lightweight and has been in the GB Worlds teams since 2001 and was in the Lw4- in Athens. Paul is ex-Oxford lightweight and made his GB debut in Japan this year.
The press release was right. The crew came fourth overall, and second in their event.
Results for Wallingford are
| FINISH | START | CREW | EVENT | Min | Sec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 15 | Composite | Sen1 4x- | 18 | 24.18 |
| 153 | 29 | I | Sen2 4x- | 20 | 19.16 |
| 174 | 122 | II | Sen1 4- | 20 | 27.02 |
| 118 | 285 | IV | W Sen2 4x- | 20 | 3.38 |
| 239 | 291 | V | W Sen2 4x- | 20 | 57.19 |
| 386 | 295 | VI | W Sen2 4x- | 22 | 16.32 |
Photos of the crews (photos by the wrc webmaster)
See also the professional photographer's web sites.
15th October 2005: Annual Club Dinner
The Annual Wallingford Rowing Club Dinner was held at The George Hotel in
Wallingford on Saturday 15th October. As ever, much merriment and fun was
had by all, with many club members displaying elite level dancing skills.
8th October 2005: Long Distance Sculls
Photos from the 2005 Wallingford Long DIstance Sculls are now posted at Big Blade
11 September 2005: Pub Regatta
Congratulations to all members, family and friends who helped at the Pub Regatta on Saturday, a fantastic day was had by all, including those who took part in a pro-celebrity race!! Griff Rhys-Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O'Briain were in the area filming for a BBC domentary '3 men in a boat' and ended up racing our WN4+ who won at Oxford City. The race was not close and our girls romped home to victory.
5 September 2005: World Champs
Congratulations to the six club members who have just competed in the world championships in Japan.
From left to right:
Paul Mattick (LM2-),
Nick English (LM4-),
Rob Dauncey (LM2- coach),
Helen Casey (LW2x),
Jen Goldsack (LW2x) and
Tanya Brady (LW4x).
Special congratulations go to Tanya Brady who is bringing home a bronze medal from the Womens Lightweight Quad.
28 August 2005: Coaching Training
Photos of Manoeuvres in the sculls
20/21 August 2005: Oxford City Regatta
Chris Ellam who won Junior 15 single sculls at Oxford City Regatta
1 August 2005: Wallingford Youngsters are “Up for the Coupe”
The Coupe de la Jeunesse is a twelve Nation European Championship where the selected under 18-year-old athletes compete in rowing and sculling events.
It is held in different countries on a rotating basis and this year it was Great Britain’s turn to host the event at Dorney Lake at Eton, the venue for the 2012 Olympics.
The Great Britain team won in convincing manner with 236 points from Italy on 159 and France on 157. Great Britain won both the boys event and girl’s event by considerable margins.
After a long selection process, starting last October and involving tests, trials and assessments over the winter and spring of 2005. Crews were selected a month ago and trained together, culminating in an eight day training camp at Dorney Lake, immediately prior to racing on 30th and 31st July.
Wallingford Rowing Club Juniors were represented by Isobel Drury who won bronze medals in both the junior women’s eight and also the junior women’s four, and by Carl Delaney who won silver in the junior men’s double scull. Also in the Coupe team was Tony Wheel, Wallingford Rowing Club’s junior coach who coached the women’s eight and also the Great Britain women’s pair who won silver.
The results are the end of serious rowing for the season, which has seen the Wallingford junior squad winning 27 trophies and has included representation at Junior Inter-regional Regatta and a medal at National School’s Regatta by Sophie Delaney in girl’s Under 15 sculls.
Coach Tony Wheel said, the results this season reflect on the effort put in by the top members of the squad, which is limited in size by equipment and coaching logistics. Notwithstanding this, Tony aims to have six of the Wallingford junior squad trialing for Great Britain team places when the selection process starts again in October.
Tony Wheel
Photos show Isobel Drury and Carl Delaney and (on left) Tony Wheel.
