On Sunday 18th, the squad completed some training pieces against Durham University. With super sub Cassie from the womens' squad, and coxed by Ashley Hewitt, the girls swapped their singles for an eight, and after some initial confusion about the lack of two blades, took to the water. The pieces ...
Five athletes travelled to Boston to race over 5km on the river Witham against the clock. The December assessment is the first chance that athletes looking to break into the squad are able to guage their speed against current squad members, and impress the squad coaches, so the importance of a good ...
Nottingham rowing club sent a quad to the 16th Trefeu Internacional Cuitat de Barcelona held in Barcelona port on Sunday 20th November. The crew of Yasmin, Ellie, Philly and Nikki, accompanied by Dez and Lauren, travelled out to Barcelona on the Thursday before to allow time ...
Last weekend 3 quads raced the 4 ¼ miles from Mortlake to Putney in the Fuller’s Fours Head of the River Race. This is a national race with 500 crews, and the last race this year where the national team are released back to their clubs to race in their club colours. The majority ...
The weekend of 22nd and 23rd October was the first GB assessment for the year. This comprises a 2km erg test and then a 5km water trial the next day. A variety of different injuries and illness saw a very small group go to the first trials. Pippa battled through her recent illness to get a PB on the ...
The squad saw mixed results for their first race of the season. The Autumn head is held over 5450m on the Trent, with the first division raced in singles, and then the second in larger boats over a shorter course. Illness and injury have affected the squad in the last few weeks, although the majority ...
Whilst for most the 2012 season and long winter training has started, Vicki joined former NRC member Monica Relph as part of the womens eight representing Great Britain at the European Championships in Bulgaria. This year was one of the highest standards that the ...
Oarsport have recently purchased a new rowing machine called a Swingulator which is an American design by the company Rowing Innovations. It is as close to a boat as you are going to get on dry land. It is based on sweep rowing and as yet a sculling version is not ...
We start the new season in our new boat bay now based on the river just down from the main clubhouses. Whilst the squad were on their break lots of people have been involved in getting the facility up and running for our return. It is a great facility but there ...
Six Students from the Nottingham Rowing Club High performance programme represented their university and Great Britain at the European University Rowing Championships in Moscow last week. Nicola Spencer topped the squad's rankings, with a silver in the Lightweight Women's ...
The 2011 season has had its highs and lows but has bought with many successes. We had a great start to the season winning the headship at Fullers Fours Head in the WElite 4x. Nikki, Pippa, Vicky, Lindsay and Dez then got to go down to the Fullers brewery and sample the ales at the prize ...
Lindsay and Fiona travelled up to a sunny Scotland to race in the Home International Regatta where they won the double and then teamed up with the Mortlake lightweight double to win Gold in the quads as well - Well done girl ...
Last weekend was the British Championships held at the Water Sports Centre. The lake was characteristically unwelcoming for all who tried to compete on it, with wind and rain forecast for the whole weekend.After a series of earlier rounds, all crews made it safely through to the ...
The squad were involved in 4 boats at Henley Royal Regatta. Rich was competing in the coxless 4, a crew who prequalified after their success at the Metropolitan Regatta. Stu was racing in the u23 lightweight quad. Vicky was competing in the European 8 who had also prequalified. The women’s ...
We have some new Masters Champions! Congratulations to Kate and Grace who won the Masters A doubles, and Lindsay and Athalie Redwood-Brown who got silver in the same race. Both doubles then formed a quad which also won Gold. 100% success rate at this regatta ...
Last weekend saw the squad travel down to Dorney Lake – the 2012 Olympic rowing venue, to race at Metropolitan Regatta. This regatta is one of the highest standard in the UK, and a good performance here is a good sign for Henley Womens Regatta and Henley Royal Regatta in the next few weeks.Results ...
The May bank holiday saw the students in the High Performance Group competing at the largest student regatta in Europe, the British University and College Sports (BUCS) regatta. Holme Pierrepont successfully maintained its reputation for ‘challenging’ conditions, with a strong ...
We headed off to Monmouth Rowing Club last weekend, where we enjoyed beautiful weather, flat water and use of their club house for cooking and chilling out. Who needs to go abroad when we have such amazing facilities and weather in this country!!!Louise and her family welcomed ...
We would all like to say good luck to Pippa and Stu who will be down at Dorney this weekend for Final Trials. They will be fighting it out for a chance to represent Great Britain at the World U23 Championships held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Go smash it guys! ...
Over 390 crews joined the Nottingham Rowing Club men's first eight to compete in the Men's Head of the River this weekend along the Tideway course between Chiswick and Putney Bridge, along the river Thames in London. The event takes place two weeks after the Women's Head of the ...
Last weekend 4 athletes from the group were invited down to Caversham to complete a 2km ergo (rowing machine) test on the Saturday followed by a water trial on the Sunday. Caversham is home to the purpose built Redgrave Pinsent rowing centre home to the Great Britain senior squad ...
Well we had one of our best races at WEHORR yesterday as this crew and although we did have a bit of a battle with the Tideway Scullers crew we did manage to overtake them. The race starts in finishing order of the previous year with all new entries at the back, after ...
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