CSG UPDATE To date, the ARA has invited 24 athletes to the 2017 CSG Selection Camp to be held in Calgary, Alberta on June 2,3 and 4 2017. Athletes who have not been invited as of yet, have until May 31, 2017 to hit the requisite 2K erg standard to garner an invite. The standards…
CSG Update On the basis of their erg scores, twenty-three prospective Canada Summer Games (CSG) athletes were invited to a winter camp this past month in Tempe, Arizona. While it was difficult to leave the snow behind, amongst the backdrop of the Arizona State University Campus and the famed Tempe Butte “A”Mountain, athletes were welcomed…
CSG WINTER CAMP As noted in past bulletins the ARA will be hosting a winter camp from Monday February 20th through to Thursday February 23, 2017 in Tempe, Arizona. Invites have already been extended to athletes who have met the qualifying erg standard. While the standards were aggressive the ARA notes that 23 athletes to…
February 1 – Last day for 2K erg submission to attend Arizona Camp in Tempe, Arizona 19-23 CSG Winter Camp Tempe, Arizona – Invite Only. 28 – RCA RADAR Submissions Due March 11 – ARA Erg Championships – Blackfalds, Alberta – April 17 Last day for 2K/ 1K erg submissions for consideration to…
Rowing Community Celebrated by RCA VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday, January 28, 2017 – Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) celebrated the 36th Annual National Awards Banquet at the close of the RCA National Conference, jointly hosted with the World Rowing Coaches Conference. The evening also recognized Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic medallists from the lightweight women’s double sculls…
Happy New Year! A Happy New Year to all of our coaches, officials and athletes. Here is hoping that the 2017 season is one we can all look back on with pride this time next year. CSG WINTER CAMP The 2017 Canada Summer Games is a multi sport inter-provincial competition that will see the nations…
The Central Alberta Rowing Club hosted the annual Alberta Indoor Rowing Championships on Saturday March 11th, 2017 at the Abbey Centre in Blackfalds (N.of Red Deer), AB. Here are the final results: Erg Champs 2017 Results We struggled with some last minute category changes. However, everyone should be in the results table. We didn’t receive…
A Holiday Poem ( A revival from 2015) Twas the night before Christmas And all through the Boathouse The ergs were a humming to the sounds of Strauss The shells were slung on the stretchers with care In hopes that St. Nick could some how repair. Another erg done had my legs feeling like lead…
The ARA is very excited to announce a couple of initiatives that will assist Alberta athletes with their winter training. Erg Assistance: Commencing the week of November 28th, Alex Marchuk will run Calgary Based erg training sessions every Wednesday evening from 4:45-6:15pm at the CRC boathouse. The erg sessions will be for Canada Summer Games…
Canada Summer Games With the 2016 on-water season now a distant memory preparations for the upcoming Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg Manitoba (Rowing will be held in Kenora, Ontario) are now being put into high gear. With the games now only 8 months away the ARA has been busy putting into place a series of…
