It’s never been easier to open your rowing club to the possibility of an adaptive athlete joining in. First and forecast, “welcoming” adaptive athletes’ inquiries, does NOT mean the following: That such inquiries will necessarily lead to joining – not … Read More »
British Rowing has been investing more and more executive and organizational resources in the area of adaptive rowing over the past year or more. To drive and align this focus going forward, Director – Membership and Community Marieke Hagemans has … Read More »
The Pararowing Foundation supports adaptive athletes pursue their ambitious around the world and the UK has been fortunately enough to have several of its athletes attend its annual training camp in Avizaqcua Team Center in Avis, Portugal. In 2019, (on … Read More »
This week British Rowing announced its “Just Start With One” programme to promote adaptive rowing in UK clubs. Their announcement “New funding available to help clubs offer adaptive rowing” introduced the initiative: “Adaptive rowing is a daily part of rowing … Read More »
Marlow Rowing Club recently experienced a PR1 capsize in the river which was attended to promptly and successful, but did highlight a number of learnings. These learnings we integrated into the club’s revised “PR1 Policy” which included an updated and … Read More »
British Rowing published its “Adaptive Rowing Club Guide” covering all aspects of adaptive and pararowing from starting a programme to running regatta events. I was pleased to help with the drafting and editing of this much need resource (and the … Read More »
And they’re back! Well, on the way at least. With the last July guidelines from the UK government, the latest guidance from British Rowing, and the several weeks of experience of single sculling under COVID19 protocols at Marlow Rowing Club, … Read More »
University Contact Consider PR3 Consider PR1/ PR2 Alums Entry Reqs Bath (Adaptive Rowing) Yes Yes AAA Birmingham Aidan Smith Yes Yes ABB Cambridge Kate Hurst es Yes Jan Helmich AAA Durham Wade Hall-Craggs Yes Maybe Lily van den Broecke, … Read More »
University Contact Consider PR3 Consider PR1/PR2 Pararowing Alums Entry Reqs U Michigan (Ann Arbor) Gregg Hartsuff Yes Maybe Zach Burns 1480 U Texas (Austin) Wittiker Schlauch Yes Maybe (hearing imp. rowers) 1380 Princeton Greg Hughes Yes Unlikely Jesse Karmazin 1600 … Read More »
The post “Myths of Adaptive Rowing” was quite extensive, but that doesn’t mean that there are some scary aspects to the sport that are actually quite true and worthy of consideration. Water Safety Imperative: Safety is always a pre-eminent consideration … Read More »