Junior Membership of Hawthorn Rowing Club
What HRC Junior Membership means.
Membership of the Hawthorn Rowing club provides access to our wonderful club facility, our quality fleet, rowing equipment and involvement in an active rowing community.
Our HRC club management are unpaid member volunteers. Club coaching is by and large a contracted activity paid for directly by members or groups of members to cater to their respective rowing program needs.
Our Junior member program similarly has a contractor organised to provide Junior member’s families the opportunity to fund and enrol their children in a school term structured training program.
Our Junior members will be treated as an integral part of the club rowing community of the Hawthorn Rowing club competing alongside adult members and participating as part of the broader club regatta squad at the regattas that the Hawthorn Rowing Club attends.
As a membership based club we provide Junior programs for school aged children who do not have a rowing program as part of their school curriculum. We encourage our Learn to row students to continue their rowing as Junior members of the club and participate in club activities and represent Hawthorn Rowing Club.
When can Junior Members attend the Clubhouse?
Recognising that non-adult members cannot be given access to a club key; junior members will be able to attend the clubhouse in the following manner:
At any time, in the care of either a parent who is a club member or adult family member who is a club member.
At designated club open times for rowing – Rowing with other adult members ensuring their on-water safety or during designated club open times, utilising the gym equipment or land-based training.
Attending any pre organised school-term coached training sessions contracted through Tristan Krstevski via tristankrst@gmail.com.
During formal school-holiday coached training programs (Paid coaching contracted through Tristan Krstevski).
When under the supervision of an approved club coach.
When training with or coxing, crews with adult club members.
As part of club regatta squad activities.
What is expected of Juniors parents & families?
Hawthorn Rowing Club provides low cost access to the sport of rowing through community membership of a volunteer-run, not for profit community club. With membership comes a member responsibility and a responsibility for our junior members families to be active participants in that community participating as stakeholders of a club rather than clients of a pay-for-service commercial business or gymnasium.
Our junior members and their broader families are part of the future of our club and we enthusiastically welcome active participation not only from Juniors but their parents as supporters in the club in which their children are rowing.
During the rowing season a junior member advisory group will be convened to facilitate active parent participation to manage the specific rowing program needs of our junior membership cohort. The Captain and members of the club committee will liaise with this group on the contract coaching of their children.
Outside of contract coaching, our junior members are expected to utilise standard club procedures to book boats, enter regattas and be selected in club crews, fully abiding with the by-laws of the <member constitution of the Hawthorn Rowing Club>. As a community club, we are managed by a committee of volunteer members.
We welcome a diversity in that committee to represent the diverse groups within the club. We invite expressions of interest in committee involvement from members with an interest in developing, supporting and representing junior rowing.