During winter a development program for promising junior rowers from NSW will be run at the Mosman Rowing Club. An initial information and selection day will be run in May.
There will be both a boys and a girls program that all rowers U18 are welcome to trial for. Previous membership at Mosman is not required, and where possible the program will look to select athletes with the ambitions and potential to row for NSW and Australia.The Winter Development Program is a great way to help the development of these junior athletes, so they achieve when they return to their school or club.
The programs will aim to fit around winter sport commitments, and will focus on small boats skills and technical improvements.
The 2008 squads are
| Angus Macgregor | Anna Traill |
| Charlie Marriott | Eliza Flint |
| Daniel Venuti | Emily Brown |
| Jake Waller | Kaitlin Honson |
| James Raleigh | Maddie Cavanagh |
| James Franki | Maddison Goldrick |
| James Petesic | Marianna Doumanis |
| Lachlan Beatty | Naomi Schuf |
| Murray Elliot | Rachel McEwen |
| Noel Pearson | Stephanie Carter |
| Phillip Blacklaw | Susan Overall |
| Scott Ellice-Flint | |
| Tom Wear | |
| Tom West | |
| Tyler Drayton | |
| Will Torode |
For all those people who missed out at selection the club will attempt to offer a modified program to as many people as the resources allow.
Details of the girls program are as follows.
HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR GIRLS
Mosman Rowing Club has started this year a new program for girls called “High Performance Development Program”.
The objectives of the Program are:
- to offer schoolgirl rowers with identified potential a rowing program which will bring them to a national rowing standard;
- to offer schoolgirl rowers with identified potential a pathway from school rowing to junior elite club and representative rowing;
- to create a relationship between the Mosman Rowing Club and schoolgirl rowers which will encourage them to continue rowing at the Club after they leave school; and
- to ensure that all students in the program are eligible for all of the benefits offered by the university programs, including full eligibility for UAI assistance and for Australian and overseas sporting scholarships.
The Program started at the end of May, with an induction at Mosman Rowing Club where all the girls interested came with parents to get all the information about this program. In total, 27 girls turned up and showed interest in the program. All girls came from different Schools like Loreto Kirribilli, Pymble Ladies, Queenwood, North Sydney Girls, Tara School, Ascham, Mackellar, etc.
We had 10-12 spots available and at the beginning of June we did some selection testing to decide the final group. We had 17 girls coming to the tests. The tests were the running test (beep test) and a 2k ergo test at 24 rate cap.
After all the testing, we selected 10 girls to start training as a group coached by Gonzalo Briones. The girls in the Program are:
- Kaitlin Honson (Pymble)
- Eliza Flint (Pymble)
- Rachel McEwen (Loreto K)
- Maddison Goldrick (Loreto K)
- Madeleine Cavanagh (Loreto K)
- Susan Overall (Queenwood)
- Emily Brown (Queenwood)
- Marianna Doumanis (Tara)
- Anna Traill (North Sydney)
- Naomi Schuf (MacKellar)