AN UPDATE ON THE COMINGS AND GOINGS OF NUBC

Hey guys,

Sorry it has been a while since the last

newsletter, only just catching up with life

now that Nationals is over and the season

is coming to a close. WOW, what an end

to the season with the club drawing in

TWO medals at the AUSTRALIAN OPEN

CHAMPIONSHIPS, held in Sydney over

the past month. We have also begun our

novice intake and have been enjoying our

first few successful novice sessions. It’s

great to see so many keen new faces

around the club!

Below you can find a wrap up of our

results from the regattas in February and

March. Remember if you are new to the

club check out Newcastle University Boat

Clubs Facebook page and email us if you

have any queries. Novice sessions are

UPCOMING EVENTS

NSW Edward Trickett Grade

Championship: 13th-14th April,

SIRC

Novice Saturdays: continuing at

Berry Park, 8:30am meet at shed

Pub Crawl: 24th April, The

Brewery

continuing to run each Saturday morning

at the club house at 8:30 am.

Rowing NSW Small Boats Regatta

On the first weekend in February a

small contingent of NUBC athletes

travelled to SIRC to compete in the

annual Small Boats regatta. Up against

Olympic medalist Kim Crow, Jessica

Richardson came 8th in the women’s

elite single scull and joined by Eleanor

Marshall from Sydney Rowing Club,

finished 4th in the women’s elite

double scull. Following Jess and

Eleanor, Bethany Kapira and Laura

Cowderoy finished 5th in the women’s

elite double scull. In an awesome race,

closely following Sydney Rowing Club

Rivals by ten seconds, Jack Hanley and

Chris Maytom placed third in the

men’s elite lightweight double scull.

Endeavour Rowing Club Regatta

The following weekend we competed

in our neighbouring club’s home

regatta at Berry Park. We raked up

numerous wins including first place in

the mix quad with Kevin Shaw-Taylor,

Georgina Shafren, Emily Wade and

Conrad

Bond, in the men’s C grade pair with James

Elliott and Damon Mills, and in the

women’s C grade four with Bronwyn

Flowers, Maddy Dupont, Caroline

Geoghegan and Erin Gardiner.

Our D grade men, Ken Boldery and

Thomas Marshall braved their singles and

scored third and first respectively. Great

rows were had by Matt Rimington,

Anthony Mujic, James Elliott and Damon

Mills, placing 1st in the men’s C grade

coxed four and by Conrad Bond in the

men’s B grade single where he finished

second. In a close race between two

University of Newcastle crews, we

finished 1st and 2nd in the mixed eights,

smashing Port Macquarie. Our winning

crew included Jess Mitchell, Rachel Evans,

Ro Maxwell, Erin Gardiner, Anthony Mujic,

Jason Nissen, Damon Mills and James

Elliott. Anthony Mujic then went on to

place third in the men’s open single, while

Kevin Shaw-Taylor and Ken Boldery, and

Matt Rimington and Tom Marshall fought

it out in the men’s D grade double, placing

second and first respectively. Silvers were

taken out in two separate divisions of the

women’s D four by Pru Garrett-Jones,

Georgina Shafren, Maddy Dupont and Erin

Gardiner, and Emily Wade, Jess Mitchell,

Rachel Evans and Penny Saltis.

Second places were also scored by

Bronwyn Flowers and Ro Maxwell in

the women’s B grade double and by

Jason Nissen in the men’s masters’

single scull. NUBC then finished the day

on a set of wins by our men’s D grade

four with Matt Rimington, Ken Boldery,

Damon Mills and James Elliott, our

men’s open quad with Conrad Bond,

Felix Dieu, Chris Maytom and Jack

Hanley, our women’s C grade pair with

Bronwyn Flowers and Ro Maxwell, and

our mix double of Aimee Peterson and

Lucas McBeath, of Newcastle Rowing

Club. Congratulations to all our

members who competed so

successfully over this long day.

NSW Championships

Over three days of tough competition,

six of our most competitive members

competed in the state championships

from the 15th to the 17th of February.

Jessica Richardson made it to the final

of the championship women’s under

23 single scull, placing eighth. In a

composite crew with friendly rivals,

Merran Holmes took out fourth place

in the championship women’s elite

lightweight quad scull, and in a great

finish to the weekend brothers Conrad

and Austin Bond were joined by Jack

Hanley and Chris Maytom in the

championship men’s elite lightweight

quad to take out fourth place.

Sydney Rowing Club Regatta

In what would turn out to be a weekend

the club would rather forget, Jack Hanley

and Jess Richardson competed in the

Sydney Rowing Club Regatta. Jess placed

third in the women’s under 23 double

scull with Eleanor Marshall from Sydney

and Jack 4th in the men’s lightweight

single. The club suffered from a trailer

accident on the freeway on the way to

Sydney which is still being resolved so if

you owe any money to the club make

sure you pay up as soon as possible as it

may well be needed.

Newcastle Grammar Regatta

NUBC cleaned up at the local Grammar

schools regatta held at Berry Park on

the 9th of February. The club earned

eight wins including taking home gold

and a $250 cheque in the men’s open

eight feature race. Congratulations go to

Conrad Bond, Thomas Marshall, Jason

Nissen, Anthony Mujic, Damon Mills,

James Elliott, Chris Maytom, Jack

Hanley and cox Bronwyn Flowers for

their amazing efforts in this feature

race.

Gold’s continued

coming in through the day with Matt

Rimington, Thomas Marshall, Damon

Mills and James Elliott taking first in the

men’s C grade coxed four, Merran

Holmes scoring first in the women’s B

grade single, and Conrad Bond also

taking out first in the men’s B grade

single. Georgina Shafren, Ro Maxwell,

Jess Mitchell and Emily Wade placed

first in the women’s D grade quad and

then backing up in the women’s D grade

four Georgina, Jess and Emily were

joined by Rachel Evans and cox Rachel

Kirby-Faust to take out first once

again. Our men’s open quad of

Conrad Bond, Felix Dieu, Chris

Maytom and Jack Hanley also took

out gold and were joined in their

celebrations by Aimee Peterson and

Lucas McBeath who won the mixed

double.

Other stand out performances were

had by our mixed quad of Emily

Wade, Matt Rimington, Ken Boldery

and Erin Gardiner who placed

second, along with Merran Holmes

taking silver the women’s open

single. Silvers were also seen by

Bronwyn Flowers, Ro Maxwell,

Maddy Dupont and Erin Gardiner in

the women’s C grade quad and by our

women’s open eight which included

Ro Maxwell, Maddy Dupont, Erin

Gardiner, Penny Saltis, Rachel Evans,

Jess Mitchell, Merran Holmes and

Jessica Richardson with cox Austin

Bond. Matt Rimington and Thomas

Marshall placed second in the men’s

D grade double and Conrad Bond

placed third in the men’s open single.

Ken Boldery then joined Conrad in

the men’s C grade double to score

third place. Such a great day of racing.

Sydney International Rowing Regatta This year’s National Championships were quite possibly the most exciting and successful for NUBC to date where the club took home both a silver and gold medal and where all the athletes could come back proud of their achievements over the week, especially when at times they were racing and beating world champions. Merran Holmes was unfortunately eliminated in her repercharge but had some great rows in the women’s open lightweight single scull. In a battle between our two men’s under 23 lightweight single scullers Chris Maytom and Conrad Bond unfortunately both missed out on finals but showed great determination and performance at the International Regatta. Conrad Bond was then joined by Oliver Couch from UNSW to compete in the men’s under 23 lightweight double final where they placed an exciting 6th and really showed great potential together. Conrad’s younger brother Austin Bond made it to the B final of the men’s under 21 lightweight single and finished in a strong fourth. After suffering illness early in the week Jack Hanley was forced to scratch his single scull in order to focus on his crew boat later in the week. This turned out to be the best decision he could have made when his men’s open lightweight quad scull came across the line in a close second, scoring a silver medal which he was sadly deprived of in the previous year. Jack and his crew mates James Waldersee (Balmain RC), Joseph Gubler (Canberra RC) and Will Clark (Mosman RC) were a close second behind the Sydney Rowing Club Quad who were to go on to compete in the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta held the in conjunction with the National championships. The race was broadcast across the nation and it was so great to see the crew finally scoring that silver medal.

Not to be out done by Mr Hanley, Jessica Richardson also put in a competitive week of racing placing 4th in the B final of the women’s under 23 single scull. Jess was also invited to join Sydney University and UTS in the women’s under 23 eight where the girls beat all expectations and in a close hard race finished fourth. Jess jumped into three seat right before the race and after not having rowed bow side all season it was an interesting warm up but the crew changes meant major improvements were seen between the heat and final and the race was also covered on Fox Sports. One hour after the finish of the eight race Jess was back on the water and paddling up to the start of the women’s under 23 quad scull. Although there wasn’t time to rest between races the adrenalin and will to win pumping through her and her crew mates Alexa Hearn (UTS), Alex French (UQ) and Elise Andrews (UTS) pushed the girls into a convincing victory and brought home a Gold for NUBC. Congratulations to all the athletes that competed at the National Championships we are so proud to have you representing our club!!!