Row Gold Gala 2008
April 21, 2008
Rowing Canada is hosting an Olympic send off, Row Gold Gala 2008, at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto on Wednesday June 25. Many of the members of Canada’s team will be present for a casual, fun-filled evening, which will highlight many of the country's prominent athletes as well as feature an ergathon in which everyone can participate.
Tickets are available from Rowing Canada at $200 per person or $2,000 for a table of 10. All proceeds from the Gala will be directed to The Canadian Rowing Foundation.
Executive meetings and AGM minutes posted
Minutes from meetings of the club's Executive are now posted on the web site and can be found here. The minutes from this year's annual general meeting are also posted at the same location.
Applying for youth camp counsellors
March 27, 2008
The ORC is accepting applications for two paid counsellors to teach basic, intermediate and advanced rowing skills for the summer youth rowing camp for 12-17 year olds.
The ideal candidates will be competitive rowers with camp counsellor or other comparable experience. All counselors must know all the club safety rules, have or acquire pleasure craft operator's cards prior to the start of camp season and must pass a St John’s Ambulance-administered first aid course.
The youth camps run from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday through Friday from June 23 - August 22 except Tuesday July 1, Friday July 25 and Henley week August 4-8 with counsellors guaranteed work during that period. The counsellors will start prior to the start of camp season and spend time promoting the camp across the Ottawa area and preparing for the summer season.
Letters of application and resumes should be e-mailed by April 11 to Andy Hall, Vice-President Programs or mailed to Ottawa Rowing Club Box 1457, Station B, Ottawa, ON K1P 5P9
Applying for weekend club manager
March 27, 2008
The ORC is accepting applications for the position of weekend manager of the club for the 2008 season.
The ideal candidate will be someone with knowledge of rowing, water safety and experience in working in an office that oversees a sporting facility. He or she should also have or acquire a pleasure craft operator’s card.
The weekend manager will work under the direction of the club manager from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon Saturdays and Sundays from Saturday May 10 through to the end of summer and if interested also through the fall season until club closing in early November.
The weekend manager will be responsible for opening and closing the club on weekends, overseeing the use of club equipment during periods when the club is open, maintaining records of who is on the water and doing whatever maintenance, cleaning and other jobs are assigned by the club manager. The weekend manager may also be responsible for collecting membership fees and overseeing office and canteen operations on the weekends.
Letters of application and resumes should be e-mailed by April 11 to Chris Waddell, Vice-President Administration or mailed to Ottawa Rowing Club Box 1457, Station B, Ottawa, ON K1P 5P9
Siobhan McLaughlin named the ORC's new head coach
March 5, 2008
The Ottawa Rowing Club has named Siobhan McLaughlin as its new Head Coach effective April 2008.
Siobhan is currently the provincial Executive Director and Head Coach for the Saskatchewan Rowing Association, and chair of Rowing Canada’s Interprovincial Coaches Committee, is the second full-time head coach in the ORC’s 140-year history. She succeeds Lubo Kisiov who left last October after seven years to become Head Coach at the Thames Boat Club in London, England.
“I'm very excited about the opportunity to be joining the ORC as the Head Coach,” she said from Saskatoon. “The ORC has a great tradition and reputation in the rowing community, and I'm really looking forward to meeting all of the athletes, coaches and volunteers that make up the membership.”
A native of St. Catharines, Ont., Siobhan attended, rowed and coached at Ridley College before going to UWO as an undergrad where she was a member the Western Mustangs Varsity Women’s crew from 1996-2000. She has completed Level 3 of the National Coaching Certification Program and is close to completing Level 4 as well as being a certified kinesiologist.
Siobhan has already obtained considerable recognition for her research activities. Her innovative work in designing an instrument that measures whether a boat is balanced while being rowed by a crew was featured on the Discovery Channel program Daily Planet -- http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=5/10/2004.
Her research has also been featured online as a Young Innovator --http://www.innovationcanada.ca/11/en/articles/younginnovator.html .
Siobhan will begin work at the club in late April as the ORC opens for another rowing season.
2007 Wes Kuran Scholarship Award – Jamie Bell
February 19, 2008
Jamie Bell is the first winner of the Wes Kuran Scholarship Award, which includes a $500 award to support full time studies.
Jamie started her rowing career two years ago with the Ottawa Rowing Club’s Adult Learn to Row program. That fall she joined the University of Ottawa novice rowing team, and has continued on to row two seasons with the Ottawa Rowing Club and the University of Ottawa Varsity team.
As well as being a full-time theatre student at the University of Ottawa, working at Montana’s Cookhouse, and volunteering across Ottawa, she lives, eats, and breathes rowing. She is constantly pushing herself to get fitter, to train harder, and to be a role model for the rest of the University of Ottawa Team. As the team co-ordinator, she keeps others students motivated to do their best, all while competing and coordinating the team administration.
Jamie says that through rowing, she has learned so much about herself; it has helped her improve her fitness, my focus, and my determination. Through the journey, she recognizes that she has been supported by a community of friends and fellow rowers. Her bond to the sport and the club has grown so strong that she finds herself contributing more time and effort, continuing with the sport and the lifestyle of rowing because she feels that it is an amazing sport, both competitively and recreationally.
We congratulate Jamie and look forward to many seasons to come, wishing her success in the future both on and off the water.
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