Thanks to all who have entered NJIRC this year!

It is set to be a bigger and more fun than 2009. Please keep checking the website www.londonyouthrowing.com/events/njirc for more details of racing schedule and activites on the day.

Entries have now closed for NJIRC 2010, successful entries will recieve an email by Friday 12th March confirming their entry.

The competition and performance juniors jet off to the sunnier climate of Italy for a week of hard work, and hard homework!

An online event with the LYR Juniors racing against Juniors from Chicago Training Centre, at Quintin Boat Club, Chiswick, in the finish area of the Boat Race.

Stratford School are holding their own inter-form competition, with help from LYR

A multi-sport event for all of the 6th formers in Wandsworth, with LYR rocking out some ergo racing!

The largest indoor rowing event in the world! It’s the place to be seen if you are serious about your indoor rowing. Held at Battersea Evolution Centre, Battersea Park, with racing from 10:30am to 5:30pm, come along and show your support to all the competitors!

With snow on Monday, torrential rain on Tuesday, the blue skies, flat water and (relatively) warm temperatures were a treat for the athletes and coaches on Wednesday morning. The picture shows Phoebe Fisher sculling towards Chiswick Eyot, being coached by Ellen O’Mahony, the new LYR community coach for Wandsworth.

In a bid to unearth the 2016 generation of Olympians from the East End, London Youth Rowing have teamed up with Mossbourne Community Academy in an exciting and groundbreaking initiative.

Both London Youth Rowing and Mossbourne have triumphed where others have failed. In the heart of Hackney, Mossbourne has become ‘a beacon of academic rigour’. London Youth Rowing is an innovative and highly regarded junior community rowing programme.

Starting September 2010, Mossbourne will welcome the first recruits to its elite sixth form rowing programme. This opportunity will only be available to current Year 11 students. Its objective is to identify and develop those individuals with the potential to become champions. London Youth Rowing has worked with thousands of young Londoners through its Row East London (RoEL!) initiative. Mossbourne has the resources and the desire to ‘break the mould’ and ‘show that anything is possible’. Lea Rowing Club will provide the on-water training facility.

No champion can reach the top without help. The successful candidates will enjoy the very best coaching, facilities, academic support and pastoral care. However, with this support comes an expectation of commitment to the programme and its high standards.

No experience in rowing is necessary. Candidates will ideally be tall with a passion for sport and a strong desire for success. Offers will be subject to academic qualification and physiological testing.

• Talent ID testing – March 16^th – at the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships, Battersea.

• Open Evenings 23^rd and 25^th February - at Mossbourne Community Academy, Hackney.

• For more information go to www.londonyouthrowing.com/programmes/row/lyr-6th-form-academy/

Eddie Fizpatrick, event organiser said, ‘We are very excited this year to be hosting some very special guests – it’s going to be an incredible day!’

A draft running order has been announced, click here to see it. This may be subject to change depending on entries, so get yours in as soon as possible.