Junior Squad
Juniors
We currently have over 70 Junior members ranging from age 11 (Year 7) to 18 (Upper Sixth) sculling, rowing and coxing to many different levels of ability. We operate with a culture of fun safe rowing and our social club plays a very important part in being a member.
Junior boys and girls have joined us from all the schools in Durham, and wider afield. New juniors join us though the taster courses we run with the City of Durham Council for children in the Easter & Summer Holidays. We also run partnership programmes with local schools, such as Durham Johnston, Gilesgate Sports College, Tudhoe Grange and Durham High School.
Junior 14 members complete a skills drill during fund day at the club and senior Juniors celebrate Durham Regatta wins
On joining our club a new junior member would be taught how to scull in single and crew sculling boats, and would also learn the art of watermanship by sculling and coxing with our senior men, women and veteran crews. As juniors progress and develop they would be introduced to training, involving both land training and work on the water, leading to racing at a regatta.
Eventually they might be good enough to try for selection to represent the Northern Region at the Inter Regional Championships, England at the Home Countries, or Great Britain at the Coupe de la Jeunesse and the World Junior Championships. We encourage and support all of our athletes to reach the level of competition which they feel comfortable with, but never push them further than they want.
We are proud to have been awarded the Clubmark accreditation for our practices and have been involved in the National Governing Body schemes Project Oarsome & World Class Start from their pilot stages.
Many of our club's juniors going on to higher education have come to be active in their university or college boat club, sometimes as president, captain or secretary.
For more information about joining our junior section please contact one of our junior co-ordinators.
11-14 Group Mike Rowe
15-18 Group Alan Granlund