#Rowing: The All-Ireland Schools rowing Blitz in Trinity College, Dublin today was the culmination of weeks or hard work in the Get Going...Get Rowing schools programme. Trinity College saw hordes of bus loads coming from Limerick, Cork, Galway, Carlow and Dublin, where the programme started just over two and a half years ago. The initiative, which was run with a number of sporting partners, brings rowing machines into schools and gives students the opportunity to row on a four-to-six-week programme. The ethos of Get Going...Get Rowing is to "commit to giving students a sport and a pathway for life". Each student gets an on-the-water experience as well as ergometer (rowing machine) training and technique together with a fun active environment in schools.
Over 600 students from well over 30 schools came to Trinity Sports Hall. The ages ranged from 13-year-old first years to transition year students, who had completed the TrY Rowing leadership course. In a busy and exciting day medals went to schools in Carlow, Galway and Dublin. Killarney, the only team from Kerry which travelled, also took home medals.
There will be more events throughout this year, with Carlow hosting one on December 9th. Indoor rowers are moving to the water - 100 students in Leinster alone have joined clubs.
RESULTS
Girls U/14
Dominican College Galway
Presentation, Terenure
Sutton Park, Dublin
Girls u/16
Dominican College, Galway
Kings Hospital, Dublin
Salerno, Galway
Club/open girls
Laurel Hill, Limerick
Carlow Schools
Salerno, Galway
Club/open boys
Kings Hospital, Dublin
Presentation, Killarney
Carlow Schools
U/16 boys
CBC Monkstown
Borris Vocational School
CBC Monkstown
