We have finally managed to get to a competitive rowing event which has survived the weather in 2014.  

Cork Head of the River saw 43 Shandon crews entered in a postponed event which ran smoothly in good calm conditions.   A number of our crews in both the youngest and oldest categories were participating in their first ever competitive event and the results were very satistfactory.    

Shandon had a total of seven wins in the following events:

Mens J18 1X     -     Colm Hennessy

Mens J18 4X-    -     Colm Hennessy, Ronan Byrne, James Hodkinson, Cathal Merz

MJ18 2X            -     Stephen O'Sullivan and Ronan Byrne

Mens J16 1X      -     Stephen O'Sullivan

Men's J14X        -     Eoin Gaffney, Jerome Arrigan, William Roynane, Sam O'Neill, Max White (cox)

Women's J18 8  -    Rachel O'Leary, Chloe Sullivan, Jill Crowley, Caoimhe Downey, Sarah O'Leary, Fiona Keeley, Ellie Clohessy, Rachel Fitzgibbon, Annie MCarthy (cox)

Women's J14X   -     Mide Dineen, Jennifer Crowley, Julie Harrington, Ciara Harrington, Emilie Finn (cox)

Well done to all our competitors and especially to our victors.    We look forward to the next outing.

Congratulations to our four winning crews ath Muckross Head of the River on the 7th December.    The successful crews were the Women's Intermediate Double of Daisy Callanan and Clodagh Scannell.   the Women's Intermediate Quad of Daisy, Clodagh, Katie Nagle and Fiona O'Keeffe,    the Women's Junior 14 Coxed Quad of Aine Buckley, Dara Brady, Aine Rice, Chelsey Minihane, Zara Finn (Cox),     the Men's Junior 18 Quad of Stephen O'Sullivan, Ronan Byrne, Colm Hennessy and James Hodkinson.   The four pennants will be added to the ever growing collection on our club-house walls.

Well done to all 36 Shandon Crews who competed and especially to those who who were competing in an event for the first time.     Great work was done by our Captain, Ken Lynch, and our coaches in ensuring that all crews got to row.    Thanks also to our neighbours Lee Rowing Club and Lee Valley Rowing Club for the use of their boats without which our last two crews would not have been able to take to the water.      The full results, with times,  are posted on the Rowing Ireland website at    

http://www.rowingireland.ie/documents/_Muckross%20HOR%202013%20-%20Category%20Results.pdf

Our 2013 Learn to Row Camp which ran from Monday 29th July to Friday 2nd August was a great success with 40 boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 13 participating.     Jamie Byrne and his ten junior rowing helper, ran a great programme with lots of fun and some learning to row for all the participants.    The weather held good for the full week and we were able to get on the water every day.    The highlight I hear was the big splash at the end of the week when all 40 hit the water and made sure that the coaches followed them in.   Happily approximately 15 of the young rowers have returned in September to sign up as junior members of the club.

Shandon Boat Club would like to wish every good luck to the seven club members who will be representing their country over the next few weeks in a number of International events.    Pride of place goes to Andy Harrington and Jack Casey who will be Ireland's representatives in the Men's Double in the World Junior Rowing Championships in Lithunia.      Following on their recent Irish Rowing Championships success Jack and Andy have every chance of doing well in Vilnius.   

Good luck also to Daisy Callanan and Clodagh Scalann who represent the club in the Coupe de la Jeunesse (i.e the European Junior Rowing Championships)  and to Clodagh O'Sullivan, Colm Hennessey and Luke Carroll who will be participating in the Home International Champonships.   All these rowers bring immense credit to themeselves, their families and Shandon.