Kamloops Rowing Club

2012 Rowing Season

2012-02-11T21:14:00.000-08:00

It is that time of year again as we are starting to get organized for the upcoming 2012 rowing season. If you are someone who is interested in giving rowing a try this year, or are a seasoned rower we would love to hear from you.

Warming up down by the burner

If you are interested in joining the club this year please send us an email at kamloopsrowing@gmail.com. We usually are out on the water by mid to late April depending on when the ice is off the lake.

We will be having our annual general meeting within the next couple of weeks to start organizing Learn to Row programs for this year. So if you have always wanted to give the sport a try, now is a great time. Please check back within the next couple of weeks for more information.

Last Row of the Season

2011-10-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

Mark made it out for one final row of the season. The docks will be pulled in the next couple of weeks, and then it will be time for some serious erg training all winter.

Early Morning Row

2011-06-15T19:28:00.000-07:00

Volunteers needed for WCSG

2011-02-22T18:54:00.000-08:00

2011 WCSG: Rowing Volunteer Recruitment Notice

The 2011 Western Canada Summer Games are occurring Aug 5-14 in Kamloops. Rowing activities on Shumway Lake will occur during Aug 10-14^th with practices Aug 10,11^th and time trials and races Aug 12-14^th.

Volunteer recruitment and online registration for nontechnical and technical positions is now open and we have openings in all areas and could use your spirit of volunteerism for this event!!!! For Games Insurance purposes, everyone who volunteers MUST be registered online through the WCSG site. No one will be allowed to volunteer if you are not registered. If you are interested in helping us out this summer, you will need to register yourself into the online volunteer pool first and then I will be in touch w/ your regarding your interest and possible training needs! Please consider helping us this summer at this amazing event on our lake!

This information email is serving several purposes:

1. If you are reading this with interest…. Consider this as our formal invitation to YOU to join us in Kamloops at Shumway Lake for a wonderful opportunity to witness the best 19 year-old rowers racing from the 4 Western Provinces!!!!! While you are not volunteering, you can become a tourist and travel from venue to venue and witness amazing competition in all Summer Sports all around the city of Kamloops! It is also a great time to visit the interior of BC and soak up the warmth of the August heat!

2. To get the job that you want!: Proceed to the WCSG Volunteer registration site at: www.2011wcsg.ca. Again, anyone wishing to volunteer MUST REGISTER through the WCSG site as a Volunteer, under the SPORT CATEGORY, naming ROWING as their choice. There is online and manual registration available. You are given up to 3 sport choices .You can give only one choice as “ROWING” and leave the other choices blank. If you want to help with rowing only do not put any other sport choice down as you may be pulled into that sport accidently. I will be in contact with you once you are registered and the volunteer list is given to me (this will occur on a monthly basis). Once volunteer jobs are filled for the date/times needed, that job will no longer be an option. It is to your advantage to register online early!

Although the Games committee will send me your name as wanting to volunteer, I would ask that you also send me an email ( ashs@telus.net) and let me know what job area you would like to volunteer in or have expertise in ( see the excel sheet sent with this email for the job descriptions) and the dates you are available. The WCSG Committee likes volunteers to put in minimally 15 hours in order to receive appropriate recognition such as receiving the WCSG Volunteer “ Uniform” .

3. I have attached an excel sheet that has individual pages of volunteer jobs described in terms of # of people needed/day, dates and times you would be needed, your actual role and duties, equipment orientation, etc. There will be orientation and training provided as we grow closer to the Games dates. We need people with technical skills (eg. Finish tower timing, Dock Marshall) and nontechnical skills (eg start platform boat holders, shoe marshall, parking attendants, site maintenance).

I hope to hear from interested rowers, and nonrowers in BC who are community minded and would like to be a part of this wonderful event this coming August! Please feel free to send this on to others you think might be interested in getting involved in the WCSG activities.

Thanks for your consideration! Remember it all begins with you going online and getting yourself registered as a volunteer!!!!! Please do it early….

Sincerely,

Janine

Janine Chan

2011 WCSG Sport Chair, Rowing

email: ashs@telus.net

phone: 250-372-1787 ( home)

FAX:250-371-5543 ( Attn. JChan)

2010-08-30T09:10:00.000-07:00

The Shumway Sprints appeared back on the BC regatta scene on Saturday, August 7th in Kamloops disguised as the Rowing Test Regatta for the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games that will occur in Kamloops next year August 10-14th. 55 Athletes attended from 7 rowing clubs ( SFU, Nanaimo, Kelowna, South Cariboo, Nelson, UFV, and local athletes) along with 7 umpires and 41 volunteers running the event. The venue has seen major upgrades in preparation for the 2011 Games which include 2-new 72 foot fibreglass docks, a 6 lane Albano stainless steel race course, new start tower, 6 new start platforms and a refurbished finish tower. Racing was relaxed as the organizers tested all the regatta equipment to ensure a seamless event next year. Although wind and rain filled the day, rowers had their fill of racing as composite crews were built from attendees and the Kamloops' Club offered up their boats and blades to maximize the racing line-ups. In attendance were 2 former club executives who were involved in the 1993 Canada Summer Games that created the legacy from which the Kamloops Club grew: Graham Foreman ( Shumway Sprints Head Umpire and former Club 1st President/Coach ) and David Davies ( 1993 CSG Rowing Sport Chair and former Club Executive member). The volunteer base came from as far as Vancouver, 100 Mile House and Kelowna to help at the event. Many of the Kamloops FlyFishing community supplied their time, boats and motors to support the Umpires on the water. According to the Umpires, the Kamloops Flyfishing Boats are the most comfortable boats they have ever experienced and they tried in earnest to convince the boatdrivers to support them in the lower mainland regattas! Much thanks goes out to all volunteers who helped in some way to make the regatta amazing! Other notables in attendance were : Don and Linda Arnold, Jon Beare ( Hudson Boat Works) and Jenn Bigler( RowWest). The Kamloops Rowing Club hopes to put the Shumway Sprints back on the regatta calendar after 2011. The Club extends its thanks to all for making the test event a great success! Should anyone wish to volunteer their time/expertise at the Junior Sprints at the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games or want to know more about volunteer opportunities available , please contact the 2011 WCSG Rowing Sport Chair ( Janine Chan) at jchan@tru.ca. Also visit the Kamloops Rowing Club website for updates on volunteer opportunities as the WCSG event approaches ( kamloopsrowing.blogspot.com).

Updates

2010-07-27T18:36:00.000-07:00

Please check updates on links the package now has Motel info.

6:00am gotta love it 10 July 21

2010-07-22T22:37:00.000-07:00

July 18 2010

2010-07-18T18:45:00.000-07:00

If you are having problems opening the excel sheet on race, please convert back to excel from google docs.

July 6th 2010

2010-07-06T11:36:00.000-07:00

Vernon road trip

2010-06-29T09:46:00.000-07:00

Black boats look better in the shade.

Would this not make a nice boat house?
Maddy loves birds, and birds love Maddy

June 14 2010

2010-06-14T20:28:00.000-07:00

J take this seriously please

J don't dip at the catch
Is this really shumway?

It's not about the Boat.

Now this is training.
After seeing Ian in the weeds, I know it's not a pretty sight.

Kristi back from UVIC

2010-05-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

May 11 2010 up to the burner

2010-05-11T23:03:00.000-07:00

2010-05-05T20:10:00.000-07:00

June Club Social - "Wiener roast with Banana boats and Smores for dessert.....Mmmmmmm

2009-07-22T15:19:00.001-07:00

Our Club

2009-07-22T11:37:00.001-07:00

The Kamloops Rowing Club is located on Shumway Lake which is 20 minutes out of town on Highway 5A, the old Merritt Highway. The boathouse, many of the rowing shells and blades (boats and oars) and the 2000 metre laned rowing course are legacies of the 1993 Canada Summer Games . The Club membership is currently comprised of recreational rowers, University and High School Crew rowers.

We share the site with the Kamloops Canoe and Kayak Club and the Kamloops Waterski Club. We have two large, floating docks for launching and coach boat moorage. Also at the site is a clubhouse with a washroom, a kitchen and a large deck which can be used for club barbeques.

Rowing is an amazing sport that will introduce you to the joys of being on the water in a team environment. There is nothing more pleasing than to feel the rowing shell move effortlessly through the water. Rowing is also a very technical sport that always provides you something to work on. You can teach someone how to row in an hour or so, but it can take a lifetime to learn how to row well.

Rowing is a true team sport that requires everyone to work together on the water to achieve a common goal. It is an amazing sport that can be done for recreation and/or competition and you can row for a lifetime while keeping strong and fit!

Welcome July 2009

2009-07-07T19:14:00.000-07:00

This is the inaugural launch of the Kamloops Rowing Club Web/Blog Site. We will be posting information about our rowing programs, membership costs, season activities and just about anything else that is happening at our beautiful venue in Kamloops: Shumway Lake.

Our venue will host Junior Rowing Sprints for the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games. Our 2000 metre , 6 lane, Albano stainless steel race course will be installed Fall 2009 and used for our test regatta in 2010 in early August! We hope you will venture our way sometime and join us for a row! We look forward to seeing you!

Janine Chan
President, KRC