*COACHES WANTED*

(If interested please contact Cait Beresford, head coach, at caitlin.beresford@gmail.com )

2010-11 Try Out Schedule

Monday August 30, 2010 – Registration and Orientation Meeting – 8:30am to 1:00pm in the training room, G-2019 UOIT Fitness and Wellness Centre

Tuesday August 31-Sunday September 5, 2010 – Durham Rowing Club, Port Perry

Online Registration Form

The Adopt-A-Ridgeback program requires every UOIT athlete to secure a $250 sponsor business to support their program!  For further details click here

2010-11 Requirements & Goals

• Please download UOIT 2010 Manual for Coxies and Rowers. It is mandatory reading for all novice and Varsity Candidates for the 2010 UOIT Rowing Season.  2010 COXIES Manual download - 22.9m pdf

  • To provide an opportunity to all Novice and Varsity candidates, including  those who have never rowed before to row in competitive inter varsity Ontario University Athletic (OUA) Association  environment , 
  • To participate in a basic strength and conditioning, program.

  Fitness and Selection Camp for Varsity Athletes (If interested in rowing this season, please email the head coach at caitlin.beresford@gmail.com )

  • On Campus, starting Monday, August 30, 2010 Registration and Orientation 8:30am to 1:00pm in the training room G-2019 UOIT Fitness and Wellness Centre. Transportation arrangements to the Durham Rowing Club (DRC) in Port Perry will be made at the meeting.
    
  • Tuesday August 31 to Sunday September 5 inclusive, Selection Camp will be held at the Durham Rowing Club (DRC) in Port Perry, starting at 8:00am each day. There will be two sessions each day, so come prepared.
    
  • The purpose of this camp is to select crews that will represent UOIT at the Ontario Universities Association (OUA) Championships in 2010.
    
  • Selection consists of a 2000m and 6000m erg test, as well as on water testing. On water selection will be based on technique and seat racing. Selection criteria will include (but will not be limited to) fitness level, rowing experience, and technical ability. Sportsmanship and general attitude will be weighed during the selection process as well.
    
  • Returning Varsity: do not volunteer for projects at the University that conflict with the training camp schedule. Your attention should be on the selection and training camp.

  Fitness and Selection Camp for Novice Athletes (If interested in rowing this season, please email the head coach at caitlin.beresford@gmail.com )

  • Those interested in joining the Novice Rowing Team at UOIT must attend the Orientation meeting on Friday September 10, 2010 at 6:00pm in room  JW201
    
  • You will be expected to attend the Novice Selection Camp on Saturday September 11 and Sunday September 12, 2010. Please meet outside the Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre at 9:00am on Saturday morning. You will be required to participate in a 2km timed run.
    
  • On Sunday September 12, 2010 you will meet at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre (outside the check in desk) at 9:00am to complete your 2000m erg test.

  Competition Season  

  • Training to be held at the DRC Tuesday through Sunday with Mondays off. Crews will practice on the water at 5:30am during the week and 9:00am on Saturday and Sundays when not travelling.
    
  • Second practice sessions will be held in the afternoon/early evening during the week depending on what works best for each crew.
    
  • Regatta's planned for 2010:
  • Western Invitational Regatta, London, ON – September 19
  • Head of the Rideau, Ottawa, ON – September 26
  • Head of the Trent, Peterborough, ON – October 2
  • Brock Invitational Regatta, St.Catharines, ON – October 16
  • Guelph Invitational Regatta, Guelph, ON – October 23
  • Developmental Regatta , St Catharines, ON – October 29
  • OUA Championships, St Catharines, ON – October 30
  • Canadian University Rowing Championships, Victoria, BC (to be determined by results throughout the season) – November 5/6
    
  • Attendance at all regattas and training sessions is mandatory for all team members.
    
  • The derigging and loading of the boats will normally be done the night before the regatta at 6:00pm. The unloading of the boats and rerigging for training will be done at 10:00am on the day following the regatta. If you are rowing, then you are obligated to ensure that all of the gear is in place on the trailer. The entire team is involved in this process.
    
  • December to the End of School Year April 2011
  • Weekly fitness training. Attendance will be recorded.
  • End of Academic Year to Training Camp in August
  • Self directed fitness maintenance, with online coaching support.

  TIME COMMITMENT AND FITNESS EXPECTATIONS (rowing season from August 30th to November 6th. 2010
  
  Punctuality-Dependability

  • Success in rowing and the success of your team require your commitment.  Failure to attend a practice or worse to attend a regatta is extremely detrimental to the success of your team. If you do not have the capability or the absolute commitment to attend every practice and every regatta, then rowing with UOIT is not for you. 
  • Based on past experience and difficulties created by failure of team members to show up on time to practices, there is a policy of no tolerance for lateness or missing a training practice .  Attendance is recorded at every practice.
  • miss one practice or late one time the Crew coach will talk to you.
  • miss two practices, or late twice and the Head Coach talks to you.
  • miss three practices, or late three times, you will no longer be on the team. There are no refunds for any fees paid if this happens. 
  • You are expected as part of a crew, to attend all of the water training sessions, to take 2k ergometer test, (scheduled throughout the season) and run at least 2k daily each week to evaluate and maintain physical stamina
  • Winter and Summer training programs are mandatory. Strength and Conditioning Programs operate four times per week, at the Fitness and Wellness Centre, throughout the winter season. We recommend that you attend at least two of these formal sessions, in addition to training on your own. A documented individual training program will be provided to each rowing team athlete for winter training. Sessions will start in early January and conclude at the end of the school academic year. 
  • Training support via email will be provided throughout the summer months prior to the training camp.
  • It is each athlete's individual responsibility to take advantage of the fitness and training advice and support available and  arrive at the Rowing Camp in August in a state of good to excellent physical fitness.  

  Your Education: We expect you to maintain your academic average. Failure to do so may result in the Athletic Department advising us that you are no longer eligible to row varsity for the University.

  • Your ability to manage rowing with you other priorities will depend on your time management skills.
  • For most school assignments and exams you are given ample notice by your professors, We provide you with a complete schedule of practices and regattas for the season at the beginning to provide an opportunity to resolve any conflicts. It is  your  responsibility to discuss all potential conflicts with the teaching and coaching staff  at the beginning of the season  not the day before the championship regatta!
  • We expect that you will try to arrange your lectures, exams, projects etc, as much as possible around the rowing schedule during the fall rowing season.  We know from past experience that this can be done, make your sport known early to your professors, and teaching assistants. 
  • If you cannot make this type of commitment, then this sport is not for you.

  For Novice Rowers:  
  For the novices, the boats will be determined after your fitness camp. We expect you to come into camp in physical condition to row.  We recommend that you take part in the winter training and participate in training or rowing regime during the summer. Initially you will be cautioned on the factors of punctuality and dependability and how crucial they are to a successful training program.

  Travel by Bus:
  Once a rower boards the bus, at UOIT, until the bus drops the rower off, at UOIT, you will travel as a group.  Because you represent UOIT, you must be in your team uniform, whenever you leave the bus, be it at the regatta site or when you leave the bus for refreshments. Whenever the bus stops for refreshments, you will all go into one eating establishment, arranged by the Coach in charge.  

  Once at the regatta site you must stay on the site unless a Coach approves a limited absence from the site.  (To eat/visit with parents etc.)  You must be available to help other crews rig and derig the boats, load and unload the boats, etc. and be available to race or cox in another boat in the event of mix ups etc.
  The bus trips are part of the team/crew bonding process and are an essential part of the team building process.  The coaches use this time for regatta briefings, and debriefing issues.  They also use this time to ensure that all team/crew members are present.

  Travel Waivers : (permission to travel by pmv to and from regattas)
  Rowers are expected to travel to and from the regattas on the team bus. Due to past problems and abuses, unless there are very, very extenuating circumstances involved, no travel waivers will be issued. No meal allowances will be paid to those who are not on the bus.

  THE TEAM:
  
  The Varsity Team 
  8 Lightweight Men  (under 170 pounds)
  8 Heavyweight Men  (170 pounds +)
  8 Lightweight Women  (under 130 pounds) 
  8 Heavyweight Women  (130 pounds +)

  • These will be the candidates who ranked 1st to 8th in each of the weight categories based on the candidates who have the best ergometer results and seat racing results. These test results will be used by the Coaches to assist in the determination of the varsity crews. Other factors considered include size, weight,  dependability ,  punctuality , teamwork and commitment to improvement and attitude.

  Junior Varsity Team  (if sufficient rowers, and funding is available)

  • made up of rowers in each of the four categories who finished in the selection process and ranked 9th to 17th.  

  The Novice Team

  • Individuals who have not rowed competitively before
  • no weight categories in competition however rowing equipment used has maximum weight limitations that we have to observe to ensure there is no damage to the equipment.
  • Novice team members will be divided into crews of eight, men or women, and will compete in the Novice Eight races during the first year of competition

  Novices interested in rowing in the fall of 2010 are encouraged to contact the coaching staff as soon as possible to discuss their participation and to discuss options for training 

Coxies

Are those who coach and steer the rowing shells

For varsity crews, those interested in being coxies can come forward OR can be selected by each crew (with final say from crew coach and head coach)

Novice coxies will be selected after the fitness camp

 Final Reminders:

All team members must complete the Online Registration Form prior to the first practice. No UOIT Rowing Team member is allowed on the water, unless this form is registered with the UOIT Athletic Coordinator Scott Barker.  The form which is available on the university website includes a requirement for information concerning your clothing sizes for the purchase of your team uniform. If you delay or procrastinate submitting this information it is obviously unlikely that you will get a uniform that fits The form can be accessed through the following link : 

Online Registration Form  

Uniforms and Player packages will be made available at Varsity 101 which is a mandatory orientation session for all UOIT athletes’ held in early September.

All varsity and novice candidates are encouraged to seek out their local rowing club and to train prior to coming to camp in August. Varsity candidates should try and row competitively in the summer.  Novices train with a club, but do not enter a sanctioned regatta, if you do, you jeopardize your status as a novice.  In short if you row in a competitive sanctioned regatta you are no longer considered a novice.  You will be in the varsity candidate pool..

All members of the UOIT Varsity Rowing Team also are members of the Durham Rowing Club, and governed by the Standard Operating Procedures of the DRC. The equipment used is the property of the Durham Rowing Club so take care of it .  By agreement with the DRC, the base membership fee for a UOIT student is $130; This fee is under review year and is subject to change.  You will be advised of the details at the selection camp in August.  
Further information concerning the Durham Rowing Club including the location in Port Perry can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.durhamrowing.com/contact.htm