RT appointed positions - put your hand up!
Rowing Tasmania is calling for expressions of interest for the following appointed positions for the 2023-2024 season:
- Selectors - Club x 3 positions
- Selectors - M
 asters x 3 positions
- Team Manager - Club
- Team Manager - Masters
- Rules Committee x 4 positions
- Regatta Photographer
- Media Liaison Officer
Please send your EOI to admin@rowingtasmania.com.au by August 21, 2023.
World Rowing Championships
RT co ngratulates Tasmanian rowers Henry Youl (TRC),
Sarah Hawe (SRC) and Anneke Reardon (ANUBC) on their
selection in Australia's squad for the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Serbia.
Henry is a member of the men's quad (M4x) with Caleb Antill, Jack Cleary and David Bartholot; Sarah will row in the women's four (W4-) with Giorgia Patten, Katrina Werry and Lucy Stephan OAM; and Anneke will team with Lucy Coleman in the lightweight women's double (LW2x).
The WRC will be held from September 3-10 in Belgrade. Follow the event here.
Optus upgrades mobile coverage
Optus has switched on a new tower to strengthen mobile coverage for the Lake Barrington area.
The newly installed Optus-owned site, located
on the hill overlooking Lake Barrington, will provide Optus customers with improved density of the mobile network and network capacity.
Peter West, Optus Territory General Manager
for Tasmania, said: "The introduction of a mobile tower for the first time near Lake Barrington will enable customers to take advantage of our amazing network."
The investment to expand Optus' telecommunications infrastructure and mobile coverage is part of an ongoing project to improve coverage and reliability across the Optus mobile network throughout Tasmania.
Water levels at Lake Barrington
Lake Barrington was created in the 1970s when Devils Gate Dam was built and is a run-of-river storage in the Mersey-Forth hydro generation scheme. But why do water levels change at Lake Barrington? Hydro Tasmania provides the details in this "What's that about?" document.
World University Games
Congratulations to Rowing Tasmania member Sophie Robinson (TIS/UTas/TUBC) and her LW2X partner Maggie Foley (Deakin Uni/Corio Bay RC) who rowed the A Final of their event at the World University Games in Chengdu, China, earlier this month, finishing in sixth place. The event was won by the Italian crew (Borghi/Corazza) in a time of 7:01.87.
Queensland based former Rowing Tasmania and Buckingham Rowing Club member Alec Paterson (QUT/Toowong RC) and his M2X partner Darcy Watter (QUT) won the B Final of their event in 6:42.67.
Book launch invitation
The rowing community is invited to attend the launch of Sandra Harvey's book, Making waves: Tasmanian Oarswomen 1922-2022, at 5pm on Friday, September 15, 2023, at New Town Bay Rowing Centre. RSVP to Sandra by Friday September 8: Sandra59harvey@gmail.com.
"In the decades from 1922 until 2022 Sandra Harvey selected a number of prominent Tasmanian oarswomen and crews, showcasing their pioneering stories of success against all odds. She has included stories of the women who volunteered their time and support, for they too are an important part of Tasmania's rowing history." (Editor Forty South Publishing)
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