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Welcome to the BSBC web site. Here you can find information about up and coming regattas, directions on how to reach them, and the latest news including results from previous races. If you have any further questions contact Graham Elliot at gse@bryanston.co.uk |
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Latest News |
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Saturday |
Welcome to the new We have two new coaches on the team: Fixtures this term will probably include: Monkton Head: Sat 14th October The scullers in B and A are likely to be attending at least two out of three proposed friendly time trial meetings with Canford and Christchurch Rowing Club on 23rd September (Sat), 19th October (Thurs), and 18th November (Sat). |
| Monday 3rd July |
PLEASE COME TO HOUSE ROWING FINALS FIRST RACE 4.30 PRIZE GIVING 5.40 Good news from regattas on the 24th June. |
| Mon 19th June |
GOOD NEWS FROM TEWKESBURY REGATTA GOOD NEWS FROM MARLOW TOWN REGATTA OUT OF OUR EIGHT ENTRIES... HURRY HURRY HURRY ! AT ETON THIS AUGUST THE GB TEAM HAS GOOD MEDAL CHANCES. FROM www.wrc.com
SWITZERLAND The group has just returned from yet another successful trip. The weather was mostly good, the crews covered about 100km of training, and the behaviour and atmosphere were excellent. Results from the major heads last week will be posted soon - they were OK, but we need to work harder to try to compete with the best. Click here for Minihead results Click here for last term's results |
| Thursday 2nd February 2006 |
A warm welcome to all our new parents, particularly those of our large and enthusiastic gang of D's. Congratulations to the following on their appointment as James Dodd, Bella Kidd, Harriet Daly, Jamie Townsend Piers Barnett and Christabel Adam are the Captains. Thank you to the parents of the D's who visited on Saturday 28th.
We have ended up with a group of 15. This will be our last trip for a while. We have found it difficult to attract all the top C scullers this year and we intend to reinvent the trip in 2009 for B and above (i.e. particularly targetting this year's and next year's D's). Christabel Adam Sam Stewart Kate Bertram |
Apologies for the lack of news recently. A warm welcome to our new coaches: Piers Barnett will be going into the GB Junior trial system. He attended a training camp in Nottingham during half term, and got a very good erg result. There will be an erg test and a sculling time trial to complete this term, and we wish him the best of luck. We have just taken delivery of a beautiful new Stampfli coxless quad scull. It is designed with as much adjustability as possible, to allow use by boys and girls, from J16 upwards. At a preliminary time trial in week three, Piers Barnett was the quickest out of all 26 single scullers, and finished ahead of a Canford sculler who has competed for the GB junior team. The Canford girls were quicker than ours on average. Lotty Stoddart put in the best performance from Bryanston girls, but has now given up the sport.
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| Wednesday 3rd August |
THE 2004/05 SEASON IS OVER ! A warm thank you to all the parents who came to support us this year and farewell to our leaving seniors and coaches. The Club is very happy with the results from the 04/05 season. Next year's Captains will be Piers Barnett and Christabel Adam. Some results from the House regatta finals.... SENIOR BOYS SINGLES: Sam Bigg SENIOR GIRLS SINGLES: Alix Odgers OXLADE AWARD: Charlotte Needham IMPROVEMENT AWARDS: James Dodd and B BOYS SINGLES: Piers Barnett C BOYS SINGLES: Olly White C GIRLS SINGLES: Kate Skinner D BOYS SINGLES: Patrick Fernandez, Alec Renton, Hugh Rycroft D GIRLS SINGLES: Sophie Bourge, Georgia Mead SENIOR BOYS HOUSE: Shaftesbury (Connaught very close 2nd) SENIOR GIRLS HOUSE: Harthan JUNIOR BOYS HOUSE: Beechwood/Cranborne tied JUNIOR GIRLS HOUSE: Harthan Congratulations to PIERS BARNETT on an exceptional score for the J16 group for a 2000m erg....6:42. Congratulations to the Senior Girls... Alix Odgers and Charlotte Needham won two very hard races to take the Womens Novice Double Sculls (a total of eight crews). This is the third time they have won in their double in summer regattas. They are now Senior 4 scullers. Alix and Charlotte joined with Katie Gornall and Milly Walters to make the Girls Four - but they were knocked out by Reading, the eventual winners. However, they then combined with four Canford girls to race in the Womens' Senior 4 Eights straight final. With inspired coxing from Lizzie de Courcy Wheeler the Bryanston/Canford composite stormed home, exacting revenge over Reading by one length. An historic first. The D Boys raced in the J14 B Quads event (three crews). Alix Odgers is also to be congratulated on finally breaking the eight minute barrier in her last ever 2000m erg test at Bryanston. The WESSEX JUNIOR INVITATION REGATTA was a huge success. Details and results will follow but it is a very busy time ! News from National Schools and The Buffalo Dinner at Leander to follow.. Coate Water Park Regatta near Swindon. CONGRATULATIONS to the winners from the senior events: Piers Barnett and Will Woodford won the Mens S4 doubles - a straight final against the Royal Navy (who perhaps should have done better in the conditions !) and Southampton. Click here for results from Putney Town and Maidenhead. |
| Sunday 20th March |
Last news from the Spring Term...With no days or fixtures lost to flooding, and some pleasing results from some of the Heads, the term has been an enjoyable success. The D's have enjoyed their introduction to sculling, which culminated very nicely in the Minihead races. At the buffet supper, we were treated to an amazing and inspiring talk from the trans Atlantic rower Mark Stubbs.
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Tuesday |
Encouraging results from Hampton Fours and Eights Head. Considering this is a high powered event, and many of our competitors have only just returned to rowing this term, this is a good start.
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Saturday |
HAPPY NEW YEAR The Spring term is off to a good start. We have 55 new J14's learning to scull, plenty of J15's, and a select group of committed seniors. We are disappointed to anounce that the Schools Head of the River Race has removed all J14 and J15 quad sculls from the event, so we are unlikely to enter any D's or C's. We are looking for alternatives. Plans for the SWITZERLAND trip are well under way. We have 22 C's and 5 seniors going, with 6 staff. Fingers crossed for good weather - a recent GB junior team camp returned from Sarnen recently having hardly been on the lake because of strong winds. ALL PARENTS OF C AND D ROWERS WILL RECEIVE AN INVITATION TO THE INTERNAL MINIHEAD RACE AND BUFFALO BUFFET ON SATURDAY 12 TH MARCH. THIS IS A VERY PLEASANT AND RELAXED OCCASION AND A CHANCE TO MEET EACH OTHER AND THE COACHES. |
Sunday 5th December |
The BPA kindly donated a Rowperfect erg (a closer simulation of being in a boat) and a new coxbox to the Club. The Buffaloes have kindly donated a new model Concept 2 erg. We have taken delivery of a new Janousek single for boys (to replace a written off boat). After Wycliffe, we will be rounding the term off with some informal races on Monday. Numbers will surge as usual next term, as we welcome over 50 D's to the river, and we have more C's than in the previous year. We are beginning to make plans for the next training trip to Switzerland. |
Thursday |
Click here for the full results Will Woodford/Piers Barnett Alix Odgers/Charlotte Needham Henry Dodson/Sam Bigg Henry Dodson Piers Barnett |
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The Club
is very pleased with the results. Most results from the Summer term are now posted in 'results'. Thank
you
to all parents who supported the end of term
regatta, READING TOWN
REGATTA Womens Novice Doubles (Dunnill/Needham) The dvd/video of Switzerland is ready to be copied - they will come to parents at the end of term. Congratulations to Anna Bourne on another D Girls erg record. Walton Regatta: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
SENIOR BOYS ON AND
WINNING
AGAIN AT MARLOW TOWN REGATTA CLICK HERE FOR RESULTS FROM COATE
WATER PARK REGATTA. CONGRATULATIONS TO
ANNA
BOURNE ON A NEW CLICK HERE
FOR RESULTS
FROM SWITZERLAND 2004 CLICK HERE TO FIND THE PHOTOS |
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AN EXCELLENT
DAY FOR THE CLUB. CLICK
HERE FOR THIS TERM'S ERG SCORES FOR C AND
ABOVE. Congratulations to the Senior Boys Four on a very good row at Hammersmith Juniors Head.They finished second out of the eleven coxed fours in the race, and went faster than several of the eights: Nick Bentley Congratulations to
Jack
Kitchen on an excellent C Boys 1000m erg
time of
3.32. |
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We were pleased to come away with two sets of silver medals (senior girls and C girls) and three sets of bronze medals (senior boys, senior girls, and C girls).
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In the Autumn term we have small (too small) squads of committed senior boys and girls, and a lively group of enthusiastic C Girls. Races are long distance Heads; mostly for small sculling boats. The senior girls are doing a training weekend at Pangbourne this weekend to escape the weed ridden overgrowing Stour. Results
from the summer House Rowing Finals...click
here. CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO MARK LILLEY'S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM LAST TERM (The Invitation Regatta, Buffalo Dinner afternoon, House Regatta Finals). More photos will be uploaded later in the Autumn Term - please be patient. Congratulations to the senior
boys on winning the Mens Novice Fours and the Mens
J18 Singles at Marlow Town Regatta. CONGRATULATIONS
TO MARK ROBERTS ON ANOTHER NEW BOYS 2000m ERG
RECORD
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6.23 Results are in from Walton regatta. The D Boys did well to finish runners up in the MJ14 4x event, after winning a thrilling semi-final against the Oratory School. Mark
Roberts was our only entry at the
National Schools Regatta this year. The 17th May was not the most successful of
summer regatta weekends for the club ! |
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Photos from Avon County Head are up (finally) on the images page. |
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Katie
Gornall and Bryony Hutchinson raced for
the Wessex region at the Junior Inter Regional
Championships in Nottingham on Monday 5th
May. |
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Congratulations to Mark Roberts on a new boys' erg record of 6.28 and on receiving an invitation to a GB Junior Assessment Camp this holiday. |
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Results from Wycliffe can be obtained from www.wycliffesculling.co.uk We are pleased to appoint Duncan Slater, Henry Dodson, and Sarah Dunnill as Vice Captains for the rest of this academic year. We said farewell to our leaving Australian
coaches Rich Cutler and Aimee Wilde, |
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Some of our seniors are competing in the
National Indoor
Championships Meanwhile, back home, we are flooded again !
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Sunday |
We have been enjoying the excellent weather in the first three weeks. The river is comparitively empty this term, so the seniors and B boys have been able to train hard. Some D's have been coming down in their spare time for some try-out sessions. Mark Roberts and Thea Follett have opted to go
into the GB Junior Trials system, which consists of
erg tests and long distance sculling trials to
start with. |
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Tuesday |
Results from the end of term House Regatta and the National Championships are now posted. I wish all our rowers, coaches and supporters a fantastic summer holiday. It has been a good year for us, thanks to everyone's hard work. The National Rowing League schools section has been divided into premier and first divisions. Our girls are currently 3rd out of 42 in the first division, with a points total which would place them 16th out of 20 in the premier division. We are likely to be promoted back to the premier division next year. The boys have gained slightly more points than the girls, and are 20th out of 65 in the first division. Every squad has made a contribution to our points totals...well done. Congratulations
to the D Boys A Quad on winning J14 B Quad Sculls
at Reading Town Regatta. Elsewhere, there were mixed fortunes, but some
crews got through their heats at Richmond: The C Girls
performed very well at Peterborough Junior
Regatta. Click here for more detailed results from these regattas
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Bryanston won the silver cup for the Victor Ludorum; a prize given to the Club with the most all-round success. The Senior Girls won the Girls Eights and the
Girls Fours. The C Boys were runners-up in the MJ15
Quads. The next day, at Thames Valley Park Regatta, the C Girls put in an excellent performance in a more competitive field. The quad won their heat and finished runners-up in the final by one length. This was out of a total entry of nine boats and served to confirm that Bryanston is continuing to compete at a high level. Click here for more detailed results for Tewkesbury or Thames Valley Park. |
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Tuesday |
We had an excellent
day's racing at Marlow
Town Regatta. Steve Redgrave was
in attendance, signing autographs.
Jonny Crump 3.05 Senior Boys Record Kat Sayles 3.44 C Girls Record |
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Monday |
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Congratulations to Mark Roberts on a new Senior Boys 2k erg record of 6.44 many of the other boys got personal best times....see the scores |
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The trip to SWITZERLAND was an outstanding success. There were no hitches, the weather was amazing, and the rowers behaved extremely well, even when they were asked to row at 7am. (I would point out that the coaches were up earlier defrosting the blade handles !) They completed more miles on the water than they would in a half of a normal term at school. We will organise
photographs, a video, and hopefully some images for
the website, at the start of the Summer Term. The former owner of the hotel, Mr Townend, gave us an inspiring talk at our final breakfast about how the Hotel Waldheim started the connection with other teams training in Switzerland, and how in former years they had hosted some of the GB Olympic team...many famous names including Steve Redgrave. We must thank the Buffaloes and the Headmaster for their assistance with the funding of the trip. Other news: Seniors will be training at the Eton Rowing Lake for a few days before term. If anyone is not sure of the arrangements, please phone the coach i/c Mr Taylor (who will be back at home on Monday 15th) on 01258 857336 or Mr Oxlade on 01202 690887. The Buffalo Bulletin is in the post to parents. It will have a report from the Spring Term, intital dates for fixtures, and an invitation to the Buffalo Dinner at Leander. test |
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Wednesday |
Congratulations to
Kat
Sayles on
setting a new 2000m erg record The
Senior
Girls squad
have made some spectacular |
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Sunday |
Results
and pictures
from Wycliffe Small Boats Head are posted. |
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Mon 25th June |
The Boat Club Dinner in honour of Michael Ricketts' retirement was a wonderful occasion, although I must admit things went a little hazy for me round about 4am (as did my photographs) ! It was magical to see so many OB's from the last decade or so. Apparently, Michael was spotted in Church the next day still beaming from the occasion. He and I would like to thank everyone who attended immensely. Results from the weekend of the 23rd/24th are posted. Although there were no event wins there were some highlights and the D Girls were inspiring at Peterborough. |
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Mon 4th June |
The Buffalo Dinner at Leander was a marvellous success. Alan Shrimpton and David Jackson spoke with great wit and affection about Michael Ricketts' dedication and hard work. Michael's reply was equally amusing and affectionate. There were one or two tears being held back, I suspect. |
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The visit from ROWLEY DOUGLAS, Olympic Gold Medal winning GB Mens Eight cox, was a great success. He christened a boat "Permission to Shoot Me" at the front of school and gave us a very inspiring talk and question session. |
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