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William Sidney Cooper OAM With the passing of Bill in the early hours of 1 January 2017 the rowing community in Western Australia has lost one of the Legends of the sport. Bill was a driving force in Rowing WA for more than sixty years and no words can...
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The UWA Boat Club is deeply saddened by the news of Adrian Monger’s passing on the 10th of July 2016. Adrian was a bronze medalist in the Australian men’s eight at the 1956 Olympic Games. He was the coach of UWA’s Oxford & Cambridge Cup winning men’s eights in...
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Fun Fact: Swirls thought there was a dead rat on the van ride to the course. There wasn’t. The nerves were feeling a lot better after getting over the first day of finals racing, and we were excited to see how many more medals we could bring back after...
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Forecast: Hot and Cold – Katy Perry // Chances of medals later on in the week Vibe: Quiet and sombre till we saw Jamie Hewlett run (I have had better runs in my shorts) Day: Thursday (actually Saturday-sorry Robbie) Today’s Inspiration: https://web.facebook.com/rowingwa/videos Fun Fact: Perry Ward’s favourite tune is...
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Fun fact: Jimmy forgot to take a zootie to the course today so spent majority of this morning trying to find one. Everyone is really bonding and working well together - each night we catch up at 8pm with the whole clan and plan the next day and go...
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Woke up from a deep sleep and laughed at the thought of everyone else getting up and getting into the vans to head to the race.
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After 6 months of training, 4 time trials, countless erg tests, way too many hours spent loading trailers and litres of sweat, it’s finally day 1 of racing.
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