JUNIOR FUN REGATTA Saturday, 15th October, 2005
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As part of the Southampton and Ryde Rowing
Community Sports Coach Project the Ryde Club staged their first Junior Fun
Regatta on Saturday, 15th October, based on their Appley Park Clubhouse and the
Ryde Canoe Lake.
This was a team event aimed specifically at Juniors under fourteen with limited
experience and was designed to give them their first experience of a competitive
Regatta in a very safe environment and with a "fun" format. Individual and Team
events took place indoors and outside, on land and on the water and included
Team relays, Ergo Rowing Machine Races, boat rigging, ball recovery, a minimum
strokes exercise and "blind" sculling. Teams from the host Club Ryde, and
Southampton and Itchen Imperial Rowing Clubs competed and the event was
supported by South West Trains and the Newport based wind turbine manufacturers
Vestas along with Ryde Rowing Clubs main sponsors Wightlink, I.W. Ferries. Much
of the organisation of the Regatta was undertaken by Ryde Rowing Clubs "older"
Juniors as part of their Junior Rowing Leaders course.
The competition in all the events was very close as the individual team members
battled through the events urged on by their team mates and Coaches and watched
by an enthusiastic group of supporters which included parents and members of the
public who were passing by and stopped to watch the frantic activity. The team
relay was won by Ryde with Itchen 2nd and Southampton 3rd, in the ball recovery
the order was reversed with Southampton coming out on top. Itchen and Ryde tied
in the Minimum Strokes exercise with Southampton 3rd with Ryde coming out on top
in the blind rowing with Itchen 2nd and Southampton 3rd. In the land events Ryde
won the rigging exercise, with Southampton 2nd and Itchen 3rd and in the team
Ergo competition Southampton won with Ryde 2nd and Itchen 3rd which gave the
Ryde Club overall victory with 145 points, with Southampton 2nd with 110 points
and Itchen 3rd with 105 points.
In the 500 metre individual Ergo the best time of the day 2 minutes 05 seconds
was produced by Ryde?s Charlotte Brimstone, with Warren Blackstone from
Southampton 2nd with a time of 2 minutes 09 second and Itchen?s Tyler Foad in
3rd with a time of 2 minutes, 12 seconds.
Rachael Redhead, the regions Amateur Rowing Association Coaching Development
Officer presented the winning Ryde team, consisting of Charlotte Brimstone,
Louise Glover, Josh Collyen, Adam Edwards, Ollie Gove, Bryony and Max Reeve with
the new Trophy ? ?the Gibson Goblet? presented in memory of former Club member
Murry Gibson by his family and all competitors received medals with their prize
package.