The Adelaide Rowing Club is offering school rowers of all ages and abilities the opportunity to participate in a 4 day rowing and develop their rowing and sculling skills to become the champions of tomorrow!

Over 4 days from July 6-9, participants will get a chance to row at West Lakes in several different boat classes, including single sculls, double sculls (teamed up with a senior ARC rower to provide expert 1-on-1 tutelage), quad sculls, as well as in eights!!!

The cost of the programme is $100, or just $25 per day, and includes a 3 hour daily session using the quality equipment of the ARC and under the guidance of nationally accredited coaches and some of the current generation of ARC's best rowers.

The program will be offered each school holidays, so even if you can't give it go this time, keep it in mind for the September school holidays at the start of the season!

To find out more, download the flyer here.

To make a booking, email Jarrad at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Vicky at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Adelaide Rowing Club was yet again announced as SARA Men's Premiers for the 5th consecutive year at the SARA Awards night on the 12th of June.

The ARC men might as well have been in a separate league of their own as they opened a 26 point gap back to 2nd placed Murray Bridge.

ARC also received its fair share of individual awards, with Aleco Mitriopoulous announced as the State's most successful coxswain, and Jarrad Schar named as the most successful senior male rower, with his pair partner, Tom Hodkinson, as the runner-up.

Several ARC rowers and coxswains have been selected in the SA Team to contest July's Australian Youth Cup regatta for U/21 rowers in Penrith.

Yet again, ARC rowers comprised the bulk of the Men's team, with Owen Girardi, Max Tonkin & Imre Zambo were selected in the crew, with Aleco Mitriopolous selected as Coxswain, and Will McNamara as the crew's reserve.

Mieka Webb fills 1 of the 2 lightweight positions in the strong Women's squad, with Catherine 'CJ' Macks making her state team debut with the strings.

In addition, ARC's Co-Captain, and all-round good guy, Jarrad Schar, will make his state team coaching debut (after several years as a rower in the team, including as a member of the victorious 2005 Men's Youth Eight) as coach of the Women's Squad.

More infomation on the regatta can be found at http://roms.rowingaustralia.com.au/Rowing/Regattas/RegattaView.aspx?id=1fc7a69e-c00c-4366-8c41-f7d13d66e58a

Have you ever been by the Torrens, watching the rowers out on the lake as their bows cut gracefully though the glassy water, and wondered what that must feel like, to glide effortlessly across the lake in perfect unison?

Well why not find out about the zen of rowing by signing up for the Adelaide Rowing Club's Learn To Row program!

Each Sunday, our accredited members introduce rowing to those who have yet to give it a go, so what are you waiting for! Check out the details here and register today!

ARC's Bryn Coudraye was selected in the Australian Men's Eight to contest the Senior World Championships in Poznan, Poland, in August.

Bryn's selection follows a week of selection trials at the Sydney International Regatta Centre and comes after his first season training in Canberra as an AIS Scholarship holder. This is Bryn's first time in the Senior Australian team, following several years competing for Australia at Under 23 level. The crew will be coached by Oarsome Foursome coach, Noel Donaldson, in Canberra.

Bryn is ARC's first representative in the Senior National Team in 4 years, following Trent Collins's selection in the Men's Quad for the 2005 World Championships in Japan. Additionally, it is over 20 years since ARC last had a member compete in the blue-riband Men's Eight event for Australia.

In addition to Bryn, ARC's Zoltan Shepherd was selected as coach of the Under 23 Men's Quad Scull, making this his 6 consecutive season coaching a national team.

A total of 8 South Australian rowers and 3 coaches were selected in National teams for 2009. Read on for the full list.

The ARC Learn-to-Row Programme has been a roaring success, but out LTR graduates have no intermediate squad in which to hone their skills before progressing to the Senior Ranks. 

COULD YOU BE THE ARC NOVICE SQUAD COACH?

 Suggested training details are 1 or 2 weekdays at around 6pm, but as Coach the squad and its schedule are yours to develop.  Be part of delivering new waves of rowers to the ARC Senior Squads!  Any expressions of interest will be welcomed by our Co-Captains Jarrad Schar and Tom Hodkinson, either in person on by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).