March '23 Bow Ball Bulletin
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Club Social Event - Saturday April 1st.
Trivia master John Stewart will run a long awaited trivia night at the HRC clubhouse.
Join us solo or bring your partner, friends and enjoy a night of quizzing with the membership of HRC. The BBQ will be on, please bring a share plate. The club bar will be open at 6pm. At 7.00pm theTrivia quiz will start. Email Ruth with your booking.
Captain’s Update
Update on New HRC Captain, Oliver Beadle
Olly Beadle has taken the reins as Club Captain with recent resignation of Jackie Bondell
At Wednesday’s monthly club meeting the HRC committee formally recognised the outgoing captain, Jackie Bondell’s significant contributions in season ‘23, keeping the club active and facilitating strong success on the water, despite difficult circumstances of temporary location of fleet and lack of access to club infrastructure and facility.
Oliver Beadle as Vice Captain all season to date, has also been integral to the successful continuity in club operations. He will step up to the Captaincy to continue leading the rowing operations activity at HRC. Pat Freeland-Small will assist going forward as Vice Captain.
Footscray Sat March 25th
Expressions of interest from those wishing to race at Footscray are required by Wednesday 15th March. Email the captain oliverb22@bigpond.com with your interest if you haven’t done so to date.
Update on Rowing Competition.
The Club has been active at a number of regattas over the 1st quarter of 2023 with strong participation by youth, senior and masters rowers at multiple regattas.
The Club is particularly proud of the success of the youth squad under the leadership and coaching of Tristan Kreveskis, Jackson Morrish and Isabelle Rochford.
At the Victorian State Championships HRC won three Gold medals:
2023 Victorian Schoolboys Open Singles Scull Champion: Max Currie
2023 Victorian Schoolboys Open Double Sculls Champions: Max Currie, Archie Critchell
2023 Victorian Under 21 Double Sculls Champions: Max Currie, Archie Critchell
Club’s other regatta success in the first quarter 2023 includes:
MRA Rutherglen series Jan 13 -14, Three Wins:
MM8+ 2 Wins (C)Guy Beasley, Trevor Knowles, John Perry, Shane O’Conner-Smith, John Stewart, Pat Freeland-Small, Richard Blackwell, Mark Oliver,Bill Olayos. MM4+ (c) Guy Beasley, Trevor Knowles, John Stewart, Bruce Winnen, John Perry.
Ballarat Jan 21, Two Wins:
MSchO1x: Andrew Chang. MU192X: Mohamed Ali, Andrew Chang
Nagambie 18-19 Feb, Three Wins:
MU214x+ J Matheson (WendB), Andrew Chang, Archie Critchell, Max Currie, Isabell Rochford (c). MM4x+ Pat Freeland-Small, Stuart Chard, Matthew Beale, Trevor Knowles (c) Guy Beasley. MM1X Shane O’Conner-Smith.
HRC Head Coach
The Club is delighted to announce that we have contracted the services of Simon Harrison as HRC’s Head Coach. Reporting to the Captain, Simon will manage our Rowing Development and club competitive training, competition and coaching program.
Simon is a level 3 accredited coach with many years experience in similar roles with MUBC, Mercantile, Fintona, Firbank and Xavier College.
We look forward to welcoming Simon on board as soon as we get back into the clubhouse at the end of March.
HRC Staging
We are hopeful of having our rowing club back in action at the Hawthorn site by April 3rd.
The crane barge is back on site and works have recommenced.The Concrete forecourt was completed on March7th.
The final stages of works over next few weeks involves; the installation of piles and the 6 upright supports by 20th March, delivery of the pontoons by March 24th and connection and installation of the floating pontoons by April 3rd.
The club will continue to operate from Powerhouse RC with limited fleet until works are complete.
Be Neat Please
Please remember we are guests at Powerhouse so keep the area around our trailer neat and pack up all equipment after use.
HOTY 2023
With Creswick Street reopened and the new HRC ramp to be completed soon, the 2023 Head of the Yarra scheduled for Saturday November 25th will likely be our biggest ever event.
Returning after a 4 year hiatus due to pandemic and floods, we will need all hands on deck to ensure this major fundraiser helps reinvigorate our club. If you are able to assist or would like to join the HOTY organising committee, please contact the race Secretary Penny Vogan.
Click the link below to view the 2023 race promo video or to share it with your colleagues.
About Bow Ball Bulletin.
Following each HRC committee meeting the Bow Ball Bulletin (BBB) will be published to keep members informed of latest news from the ”pointy end” of the club.
All Members are invited to submit details of any news, photos or activities relevant to the membership by emailing your information to bowballsubmissions@hawthornrowingclub.com prior to the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
