BUCS PwC Rowing
Club Reps Development Day
Saturday 17 September 2011
Agenda
Welcome & introduction
Meet your region (initial networking)
BUCS Season’s Information 2011/12 (incl. Indoor Rowing)
Rules & Regulations 2011/12
Workshop 1 / Workshop 2 / Workshop 3
AOB / Next Steps/ Review of Key Points
The aim of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for rowing club representatives to
• Meet / network
• Learn
• Hear and discuss plans for the forthcoming season.
BUCS ……
The BUCS sporting programme is available to the 2.3 million students across the UK. Over 100,000 students regularly compete in BUCS competitions, leagues and events. BUCS delivers 50 sports to these students and universities and organises 150 individual finals or championship events each year.
Within Rowing we want to see more students rowing, more support for coaching / volunteering / leadership and more students supported to achieve their potential on a performance pathway
BUCS Rowing is about …
• Safe and well run events• Helping clubs to grow and develop• Sharing best practice• Providing support networks• Widening opportunities for students• Raising the profile of student rowing• Enabling student rowers to realise their
potential and to gain international representation
BUCS Rowing – 2011/12 Season
22 – 24 Oct 2011 – BUCS PwC SBH (& GB Trials)
Boston Rowing Club
19 Nov – 7 Dec 2011 – BUCS PwC Indoor Rowing Championships
Regional locations
18 – 19 Feb 2012 – BUCS PwC 4s & 8s Head
Peterborough
5 – 7 May 30 2012 – BUCS PwC Regatta
NWSC, Nottingham
Small Boats Head – 23rd October Boston Rowing Club
The event is being run in conjunction with GB Rowing Team and includes the 5km single
sculls of their 1st Assessment.
The event is being hosted by Boston Rowing Club.
All student rowers will be eligible to compete in the BUCS SBH on the Sunday
regardless of their erg results.
Student athletes involved in the GB trials will be able to complete the requirements of the
GB assessment and to represent their University Club in the SBH events on the
Sunday.
Small Boats Head – 23rd October Boston Rowing Club
Entries close Thursday 13th October !!!
DIV 1 DIV 2 DIV 3
Boat Class
M1x
W1x
LM1x
LW1x
M2x
W2x
M2-
W2-
LM2x
LW2x
Weigh In 07:30 - 08:30 10:15 - 11:15 12:45 - 13:45
Briefing 08:00 11:00 13:45
Boating 08:15 - 09:15 11:15 - 12:00 14:00 - 14:30
Race Start 09:30 12:15 14:45
19 Nov – 7 Dec 2011 – BUCS Indoor Rowing Championships
• Regional events to be held within a period 19 November to 7 December)
• Each event will be monitored by an independent adjudicator
• Results will be collated by the BUCS office and made available on the rowing pages of the BUCS website.
• BUCS points will be awarded to the top 4 individual on a national basis in four categories.
• 1st = 12 points, 2nd = 8 points, 3rd = 6 points, 4th = 4 points
• BUCS medals will be awarded for the national 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each category. i.e. Men’s Heavyweight, Women’s Heavyweight, Men’s Lightweight, Women’s Lightweight
• Each regional organiser (University) will collect their own entries and set their own entry fees - up to a maximum of £5/seat
19 Nov – 7 Dec 2011 – BUCS PwC Indoor Rowing
Championships
Exeter (23 November 2011)
Nottingham Trent (4 December 2011)
Chester (Date tbc)
UEA (26 November 2011)
Imperial (26 November 2011)
Warwick (27 November 2011)
Reading (3 December2011)
Edinburgh (3 December 2011)
Hull (26 November 2011)
Solent (4 December 2011)
UWE (4 December 2011)
Durham (7 December 2011)
• Information will be available online and entries will open on 7th December
• Saturday 19th February – BUCS Beginners Head
• Course length: approx 2500m
• Sunday 20th February – BUCS Championships Head (Champ + Intermediate categories)
• Course length: approx 5000m
• Top 6 crews will earn exemption from BUCS Regatta Time Trials where applicable.
18 – 19 Feb 2012 – BUCS PwC 4s & 8s Head, Peterborough
18 – 19 Feb 2012 – BUCS PwC 4s & 8s Head, Peterborough
Saturday – Beginner’s 4s & 8s
Division 1 Division 2
Men’s Beginner 8+
Women’s Beginner 4+
Women’s Beginner 8+
Men’s Beginner 4+
Sunday – Championship 4s & 8s
Division 1 Division 2 Division 3
Women’s Championship 8+
Women’s Intermediate 8+
Men’s Championship 4+
Men’s Championship 4-
Men’s Lightweight 4x
Men’s Lightweight 4-
Women’s Lightweight 4-
Men’s Championship 4x
Women’s Championship 4x
Men’s Championship 8+
Men’s Intermediate 8+
Women’s Championship 4+
Women’s Championship 4-
Women’s Lightweight 4x
DRAFT
5 – 7 May 2012 – BUCS PwC Regatta, NWSC, Nottingham
5 – 7 May 2012 – BUCS PwC Regatta, NWSC, Nottingham
Saturday Sunday Monday
WLwt8
MLwtInt1x
MLwt1x
WB1x
WInt2-
WC2-
MInt1x
MC1x
WLwt2x
MLwt4-
MB4+
WInt4x
WC4x
MInt8
MC8+
WLwt2-
MLwt2-
WB4+
WInt1x
WC1x
MInt2x
MC2x
WLwt4-
MLwt4x
MB8
WInt8
WC8
MC4-
MInt4+
MC4+
WLwtInt1x
WLwt1x
MLwt8
MB1x
WInt4+
WC4+
Mint2-
MC2-
WLwt4x
MLwt2x
WB8
WC4-
WInt2x
WC2x
MInt4x / MC4x
DRAFT
BUCS Endorsed events
• The aim of BUCS Endorsed events is very much to encourage participation within the sport.
• BUCS provides third party public liability insurance, and will also have in place an agreed delivery mechanism that will ensure that each event is organised in a competent manner.
• These events will not offer BUCS points, medals or trophies, although the latter may be provided by the organising committee.
• In order to be Endorsed, it must be shown that these events will be lead by a University rowing club and will provide opportunities for members of that club to learn skills in events management, sports administration etc.
• The BUCS Commercial team must be informed on any commercial activity around these endorsed events and guidelines are available.
BUCS Endorsed events
• Team of 80 rowers, coaches, support staff
• From 10 Universities spread across the UK
• 2 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze
• Huge effort / huge reward
Universities
BATH
BIRM
BRIS
CAMB
GLAS
NOTTS
NOTTS TRT
READ
UEL
UL
7th European Universities Rowing Championships - Moscow
Gold M2x UEL
Gold WLwt4x READ
Silver WLwt1x NOTTS TRT
Silver W8 READ
Silver W1x BATH
Silver W4- UL
Silver MLwt4x UL
Bronze MLwt2- NOTTS
Bronze M4x READ
Bronze W2- READ
Bronze MLwt8 NOTTS
7th European Universities Rowing Championships - Moscow
12th World University Rowing Championships – Banyoles 7-9 Sept.
BUCS Rowing Regs. 2011/12
All rules are as per the British Rowing Rules of Racing and “Row Safe” with notable exceptions.
ROW 1 Definitions
ROW 1.1 Beginner: (VL points awarded) – Only open to students in their first year of rowing, regardless of discipline. No funded athletes may compete. ( where a funded athlete is defined as an individual who receives direct / individual funding.. not someone who happens to be part of a funded coaching programme )
ROW 1.2 Intermediate: (VL points awarded) - Any crew from any university can enter. No athletes who have raced in Championship of that boat type at that event can race.
ROW 1.3 Championship: (VL & BUCS points awarded) - Open to all. If there is an Intermediate event in that category then only one entry per university. If no Intermediate event then multiple entries are permitted from one university, but only the highest placed crew receives the BUCS points. All crews will receive VL points. No athletes who have raced in Intermediate of that boat type at that event can race.
ROW 1.4 Students cannot compete in both Intermediate and Championship statuses in the same boat type, for example, a student in an I4+ can not race in a C4+. N.B. students may race in 4+ and 4- at different statuses
ROW 1.5 Lightweights: as a championship event a lightweight competing as such may not enter a Beginner or Intermediate event of the same boat type.
ROW 1.6 Institutions may enter boats into the Intermediate category without entering aChampionship boat
ROW 2 Weights
ROW 2.1 Coxswains: Women’s crews:50kg, Men’s crews: 55kg
ROW 2.2 Lightweight’s: Head weight: Men 75kg, Women 61.5kg, Regatta weight: Men 72.5kg, Women 59kg
ROW 2.3 N.B. Lightweight crews are not averaged. The lightweight weigh-in will be from two hours before the beginning of the racing day up to 1 hour prior to the published start time of each category. If racing in more than one lightweight event the competitor need only weigh in once. Crews need to weigh in all together. All Lightweight rowers must produce photo identification at weigh-in.
ROW 3 Substitutions
ROW 3.1 A reserve list must be completed in addition to an Institutions’ entries – there will be no charge for reserve names, but the inclusion of an individual on the reserve list allows event organisers to accept that individual being substituted into a boat with the confidence of insurance cover via the Athletic Union.
ROW 3.2 An unlimited number of substitutions can be made up until before the crew’s first race. However, these substitutions must be made from either the reserve list or between already competing crews (as long as this does not contravene any existing regulations regarding doubling up). Failure to adhere to this regulation will result in a fine.
BUCS Rowing Regs. 2011/12