Barnes and Mortlake regatta

On Saturday we approached the middle of the Tiffin Boat Club regatta campaign. Barnes and Mortlake. Held on the same stretch as Chiswick regatta, crews raced hard over 1000m with the stream with the chance to win a pint tankard.

The J14s are looking to be a huge prospect of the future thanks to their dedication and their coaching under Jonathan Williams. They picked up a win in their B quad, showing that Westminster can in fact be beaten! Their A quad showed a lot of endurance when their final was called a dead heat they rowed back to the start and raced a strong Dulwich crew for a second time, and although it looked too close to call gain, unfortunately the win went Dulwich's way. And not to be forgotten, Jack, for bravely taking on the tideway in his single but unfortunately not managing to make it through.

The J15 singles look to be getting better as Elliot won his first race and almost made the final in a closely fought race. Unlucky to Ben and commiserations to Declan who battled and lost to a giant. The J15 quad made up of Guy, Neil, Anna, Sahib and Aaron coxing beat 2 London Oratory quads to win their division, just proving the standard the whole crew is at and the success for Anna continued in her single, winning another pot.

The J16s have had a successful regatta season so far with and this continued. The double of Will and Dai Rui beat Globe in the semi and met Matt and Daniel in a Tiffin vs Tiffin final. No one on the side could call it but The judge's verdict was 3 feet to Will and Dai Rui, winning their first pots. Richard proved a point that brute power can still win a race at J16 level, clocking in at rate 22 in his straight final. Making a total of 14 pots and 5 wins for Tiffin out of 8. Well done!

World Class Start

Anna Porteous has been selected to take part in Great Britain's World Class Start program at Molesy Boat Club. The world class start program is a talent ID program with lottery funding, aiming to identify and develop future olympians.

3 female Olympians in Beijing came through the program, and more featured in the 2009 world championships and recent Bled world cup events. No pressure Anna!

National Schools

Thanks to everyone for their efforts over the 3 days of National Schools whether it be in competing, supporting or driving - all much appreciated!

I have attached a file which gives details of each of the events in which Tiffin were represented, qualifying times, semi times and final times.  You will see from this that there are some real peculiarities in terms of heat times v semi times and in some cases final times and particularly on the last day - the impact of the extreme cross head wind is evident.

• The j14's beat Dulwich, Kings Canterbury, Bedford Modern & Kings Wimbledon, but while they did not qualify for the next round will be hopeful of doing better next year.
• Anna's competed in girls singles, the first Tiffin girl to represent the school at the championships. 
• After all of 3 weeks in a single Eds qualification in J15 singles was impressive, making the semi-finals.
• The J16 quad came 6th out of 12 qualifiers in what everyone agrees was not their best performance, and will travel back to Nottingham for the GB vs France race off.
• J15 quad had one of their best rows, against what were described as "scarily big" opposition, and will hope for a growth spurt in-between now and next may!
• Richards J16 single qualified whilst under rating most other competitors........he then became a victim of the extreme cross head wind.
• Champ quads  - qualified with three J17's in the boat, though the cross head and some classy opposition made staying in the race a tall order.

Jon leading his semi-final entering the regatta enclosure

• The final sculler of the day was Jonathan in Champ 1x, probably the hardest event at the regatta. He raced very well in the time trial and then won his semi to reach the final which was stacked with scullers who were in previous GB teams and certainly will be in this year's team. In the final the first four scullers were within four seconds of each other in an excellent race. Jonathan was disappointed not to win, but this was a great fighting result in the last five hundred metres and he collects an excellent bronze medal. 
• Myles, racing for Molesy Boat Club, earned a silver medal in Championship 2- being rolled over in the last 500m by an excellent pair from Maidenhead.

National Schools

27th	28th	30th
Friday racing	Saturday racing	Sunday racing
J15 1x	J16 4x-	J18 4x-
Hale	Clarke	Nottidge
	Holt	Williams
WJ15 1x	Claydon	Grant
Porteous	Nulsen	Moran
J14 4X+	Championships 1x	J15 4x+
Livingstone	George	Sidhu
JB		Patel
Pearce		Thomson
Jack Hawkins	Johnny (no Accommodation)	Harrison
Cox Umrigar		Cox Arran
		J16 1x
		Clarke

Thames Ditton Regatta

Tiffin saw a number of crews race the 1000m upstream course of Thames Ditton on 15th May. It was great to see so much support for the boat club all throughout the day, helping keep spirits high. This is an event that Tiffin compete highly in every year, and this year was no exception.

Special mentions go to Geroge Nottidge, for winning the Novice singles fairly comfortably. And also for winning the Junior doubles with Jonathan Williams, narrowly beating the second double of Aaron and Greg in a Tiffin Vs Tiffin final.

The J15s put out a number of singles, all competing and racing well through the rough conditions. Neil, Elliot, Ben, Ed and Charlie all put in their best efforts and Ed raced well to get to the semis putting in an extra spurt only to lose out by 1.75L.

The J14 quad reached the 'A' final of their event winning their first race easily. They then went on to race the final after Isaac and Jack competed in the singles as well.

The J16 four lost to a highly competitive KGS four on their stretch of river. The quad from the same year won their semi comfortably with a fantastic time, but couldn't hold their form for the final. Richard raced in the singles losing out to his pairs partner in the semis. Overall good preparation for National Schools on 28th.

A thank you to all those who raced and supported making the day go smoothly, we hope to see you all in regattas to come.

Thames Ditton

Draw here.

Tiffin crews in:

• J18 2x (two crews)
• J16 4x- 
• J16 4+
• J16 1x
• J15 1x (five crews)
• J14 4x+
• J14 1x (three crews)
• Nov. 1x

Pots...

Nathan, Richard, Jack and Joel

J16 4x-

Chiswick Regatta

A very big well done to everyone for the effort put in on Saturday at Chiswick. The overall performance was undoubtedly an improvement on last year and bodes well for the rest of the summer season. 

Congratulations to the winners, namely:

• Eddie (IM3),
• Richard (J16 1x)
• J16 quad (Nathan, Jack, Richard & Joel)......

Also a very big well done to all competitors who performed outstandingly well in the heats against some strong opposition. 

Especially:

• The J17 double of Greg & Arran competing at J18 against some larger than life opposition & coming 2nd
• The J16 double of Will & Dai Rui who looked very competitive post Bosbaan
• The novice double of George and Eddie who will be racing at IM3 at Thames Ditton!
• Johnnie Williams the younger, again putting in a strong performance in his single at J18 whilst still a J17
• The 3 J15 scullers of Ed Hale, Ben Whitfield and Elliot Salmon who all showed a competitive attitude delt with the tough conditions at the end of the day to perform well in the heats, especially Ed who made it through to the final and came second
• Last but by no means least, the 2 J14 quads who effectively went out as scratch given illness and put in fight whilst having a big learning experience.

Finaly please thank all parents and supporters who came along to watch - their support was much appreciated.

Carol

Regatta Calendar

• SAT 15 MAY                                      THAMES DITTON
• FRI 28 MAY- SUN 30 MAY             NATIONAL SCHOOLS (NOTTINGHAM)
• SAT 12 JUN - SUN 13 JUN               READING AMATEUR
• FRI 25 JUN                                         HRR QUALIFIERS (PM)
• SAT 10 JUL                                        KINGSTON TOWN
• SUN 11 JUL                                       KINGSTON BOROUGH
• SAT 17 JUL                                        MOLESEY
• SUN 18 JUL                                       MOLESEY VET&JUNIOR
• MON 19 JUL                                      HOUSE REGATTA

Busy

It's been a crowded few weeks for the Boat Club, but we seem to have made it through with out any major scares (Shahrukh's trip to dove pier below Hammersmith bridge non-withstanding!). The Schools Head, National Junior Sculling Head, NJIRC and Kingston Head have rounded out an extremely busy winter racing season, and I think for now everyone is glad!

Results at the Schools Head and National Junior Sculling Head were mixed. The senior squad, hampered by illness and injury, lined up with two completely different scratch crews at the back-to-back events. The juniors had better luck, with good results for the J15 boys and girls and a promising 6th from a below strength J16 quad!

Tiffins first entry to the Nat' Junior Indoor Rowing Champs' at Battersea was also a success. Richard Clarke (J16) and Tim Livingston (J14) picked up bronze medals, while Jon Williams pulled an incredible 6.19 2K to take silver in the J18 event. Tiffin Girls also turned out in force, with 7 (?) entrants.

Kingston Head yesterday proved a fitting end to a turbulent winter however, with the J18 4x (Jonathan, Arran, Josh, Greg) winning their event! The "experimental" J16 8+ put out it's first ever race against tough opposition, and can only get better. To round it off, a time only crew 4x consisting of George, Alex, James H and Michael H won the second division by a convincing 40 second margin, prompting the succinct conclusion from the line judge of; "bl**dy hell!" Altogether, strong rowing from all boys and girls, and thanks to everyone who has turned out over the last few months to race, support or coach. We can't do it without you!

Photos:

Anna Porteous meets Olympian and ex-Tiffin Girl Sarah Winckless and the J16 8+ race through Kingston Bridge