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The Edmonton Rowing Club made the short trip south to Calgary for a regatta doubleheader this weekend. The morning started off with the fiery Dino Sprints, an action-packed 1500m laned race on the Glenmore Reservoir. After an invigorating 3 hour bus ride at 5:00 in...

Hosted by the Lakeland College & Lakeland Rowing Club, the Head of the Vermilion is a 3000m head race on Vermilion Park Lake. Although it only happens once every three years, this year marked a big milestone, the 20th anniversary. Head of the Vermilion was the...

48 Edmonton athletes made their way to Regina this weekend to compete at the 112nd NWIRA regatta. The North-West International Rowing Association (NWIRA) championship is one of the oldest sporting events in the north-western region and features the highly sought after...

We are happy to finally bring you the last report from this year’s Canadian Henley Regatta. Over the course of Saturday afternoon and Sunday a whopping 10 crews represented at the Edmonton Rowing Club in Henley Finals!! That means a quarter of all of our entries raced...

The ERC press team would like to apologize to all athletes, club members and fans for the delay in getting this report out to you. So called “day jobs” appear to be getting in the way of efficient and quick press coverage of the final two regatta days. Unfortunately,...

After a packed schedule on the previous day, Friday was a little slower and gentler on the coaching staff, who had substituted normal food intake for an exclusively coffee based diet at this point.  First to take to the water was Erin Watchman in a heat of the U17...

The Edmonton Rowing Club started the morning with the best set of results in the regatta thus far. Every single crew that raced before noon progressed to semi-finals or finals. Sources close to head coach and Australian national Ali Williams suggest that the rage and...

More heats and semi-finals were on the program for Wednesday, before the hunt for Henley medals would officially open on Thursday afternoon. The Edmonton contingent started the day be splitting up the successful doubles combination of Michael Hohnstein and Colin...

Racing is underway at the 133rd Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in St. Catherines, ON. The ERC is represented by a team of approximately 30 athletes who aim to compete for Henley medals. Famously, only gold medals are awarded at this regatta. The crews have their work...

The final day of the BC Championship regatta started with another round of 5 am weigh-ins and 6:30 am time trails. The Edmonton Rowing Club was out in full force with 6 singles, 4 pairs and 5 doubles taking on the 1800 m distance.   The first final of the day was...