Balmain Para Rowing Program
Balmain Para-Rowing Program is a program specifically set up to provide opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate in the sport of rowing and become involved in the rowing community. The program provides support to para rowers from Balmain Rowing Club, and has provided invaluable assistance to para rowers over the past 10 years at all levels of the sport, from learn to row to Paralympic representation.
Our Targets
5 YEAR PLAN
- To be Australia’s pre-eminent para-rowing program, including both for elite representation and recreational rowers
- To pioneer ‘inclusive’ rowing whereby para-rowers integrate with able-bodied squads wherever their relative function and ability allows
- By 2020, have 80 para rowers vying for selection for the Paralympics
- To have an indigenous 8 crew competing in the NSW State Championship Regatta
- To have a community youth squad of 20 rowers
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About Us
Balmain Para-Rowing Program is a program specifically set up to provide opportunities for persons wi
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History
THE BEGINNING The program had its origins from 2007 when a young man who had lost both legs due to ...
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Training and Facilities
TRAINING During the week and on weekends training takes place on Iron Cove. Training camps are also...
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Achievements
The Program provides encouragement for experienced para-rowers to take their rowing to higher leve...
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Some Key Stats
...and they're always getting bigger!
99
Rowers
99
Coaches
99
Volunteers
99
Supporters
News
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Wednesday Wonder – Glen Farrawell
July 4, 2018
Celebrating An Amazing 40 Years of Service, Integrity, Courage and Mateship. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to ste...
END OF SEASON WRAP UP
June 18, 2018
The 2017-18 rowing season was a successful one for the Program. We began the season with the aim of building on our points success from last season while also building members and ensuring p...
To HMAS ADELAIDE – Thanks!
May 23, 2018
On Wednesday May 16, members of the squad received a guided tour of HMAS Adelaide and then had the pleasure of sharing lunch with Commanding Officer, Captain Jonathan Earley and the crew of ...
Monday Meet The Rower – Stephen Lawler
April 23, 2018
Stephen approached the Australian Paralympic Committee to inquire about an appropriate rowing club that specialised in working with physically diverse athletes so he could follow his dream o...
To the Primary Club of Australia – THANK YOU!
April 22, 2018
The Balmain Para-Rowing Program is both delighted and humbled to be able to announce the generous donation received by the Primary Club of Australia of funds for the purchase of our first racing para double / pair from Resolute Adaptive!
Sunday Thanks – To A Donor
April 15, 2018
“...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferenOur Supporters
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