CALENDAR UPDATE SEASON 2017/18

IMPORTANT DATE CHANGES

Rowing Tasmania has changed several event dates on the 2017-18 Regatta Calendar which was previously published in June:

EVENT:                                                         NEW DATES

• Launceston & Henley Regatta   February 10^th and 11^th
• North West Schools Regatta       February 17^th and 18^th
• NSW State Championship           February 16^th – 18^th
• State Club Championship            February 24^th and 25^th
• Head of the River                          March 17^th

The Head of the River date has been adjusted following a request from SATIS to change the date they originally requested, April 7^th 2018. This date post Easter would have created a five week competition void between the Tasmanian Schools’ Championship and Head of the River.

Launceston and Henley Regatta Association graciously agreed to change the date of their event to facilitate the change to the Head of the River date.

We have also swapped the dates for our State Club Championship with North West Schools Regatta. This change was necessitated following the late re-scheduling of the NSW Championship to the same date as our own Tasmanian Championship.

The NSW Championship in 2018 is a National Selection Event and with as many as twenty of our Senior, U23 & U21 athletes likely attending, our own Championships would have been severely affected.

Rowing Tasmania would like to express our appreciation to both Launceston & Henley Regatta Association and Tasmanian Schools Rowing Association for their co-operation in this process.

Rob Prescott.

Executive Officer.

Rowing Tasmania.

Thursday, 20 July 2017