Wild Water Racing, Committee Meeting, 10/8/06.

 

Present:                                                             Apologies:

 

John Ringwood                                                   Willie Irwin

Keith McGuirk                                                    Wesley Bourke

Martin McCarthy

 

Agenda:

 

·       Matters arising

·       International Campaign

·       Calendar

·       Equipment

·       Website

·       AGM

·       Coaching

·       AOB

 

 

Note: Previous meeting minutes (20th March 2006) had been approved by email already.

 

·       Matters Arising:

 

Aisling Quinn has yet to be paid €200 for the team gear provided to the two Junior competitors from last years World Cup.

 

A Wild Water Development race was held at WWKC in May, which included a pre-race talk on the discipline of Wild Water Racing, training and race preparation. The turnout for this event was disappointing.

 

Junior Wild Water Racing training sessions are being arranged at WWKC over the coming Saturdays (from 12 August to end of September) in an attempt to raise awareness of WWR racing amongst WWKC Juniors and to hopefully generate interest amongst these Juniors in WWR.

 

The chairman is to draw up a race organiser’s guide.

 

·       International Campaign:

 

Despite continued reminders, the final report and accounts from the 2006 World Championships and World Cup races still has not been received from the Team Manager.

 

A summary report written by the Team Manager was received by the committee. The highly personal nature of this report led to a formal complaint and was thus not circulated by the committee. Despite being informed of the complaint the author published the report on a public bulletin board and this discussion board has since been shut down at the request of the chairman.

 

Matter will remain open for discussion until final report and accounts have been received – will be carried forward until next meeting.

 

·       Domestic Calendar:

 

The proposed events for the upcoming season is as follows:

 

 

 

Event                                                    Date                                          Proposed Organiser

 

 

Inny Classic (Ranking)                             October 2006                              Alex Stanley 086-2721245 confirmed

                                                                                                            Alex@riverstyle.com

 

Liffey Series (Non Ranking)                     October 2006                              Event requires an overall organiser

Templemills – SLCC Classic                                                                    Eamon Devoy (CPCC) 087-6675298

Castletown Sprint                                                                                                Eamon Devoy (CPCC) 087-6675298

WWKC – Chapelizod                                                                              WWKC ??

 

 

Shaw’s Bridge Sprint (Ranking)                November 2006                           Dympna Carville

                                                (In conjunction with Slalom)         Pete Spence 0044 797 1006551

 

 

 

Mourne Classic (Ranking)                         3 December 2006                         Foyle Paddlers/Stephen Craig 04871348202

                                                                                    stephencraig@tesco.net

 

Castleconnell Sprint (Ranking)                  January 2007                              Sean Cahill 065-68388194

Castleconnell Classic (Ranking)                 January 2007                              Sean Cahill  065-68388194

 

Aghade Sprint (Ranking)                          January 2007                              DLSS Caoimhe ni Chuinn

 

                                               

Avonmore Classic                                   February 2007                             WWKC

Noel Tallon/Paul Moroney

 

Moy Sprint                                            February 2007                             Andrew Redmond 087 8391910

 

Clashganney Sprint                                  March 2007                                Thomastown

 

Boyne Classic                                         March 2007                                SBKC/Brendan Devlin 087-9435186

 

Curragower Sprint race (Non Ranking)       29 April/6 May                           Alan Dooley/Riverfest

 

International calendar

 

European Champs, Bosnia                                    17-20 May 2007                          ECA

 

World Cup 1 & 2, Austria                                    9-10 June 2007                           ICF

 

World Cup 3 & 4, Czech Republic             16-17 June 2007                          ICF

 

World Cup 5 & 6, Italy                            23-24 June 2007                          ICF

 

Junior World Championships                    15-20 July 2007                          ICF

 

This totals:

5 Ranking Classic races

5 Ranking Sprint races

Plus the Liffey Series

 

The Castleconnell event will be nominated as the Irish leg of Home Nations series.

 

The objective is to provide a wide range of enjoyable events, with varying levels of difficulty but at locations that are both accessible and reliable in terms of being able to provide a navigable course regardless of water conditions.

 

The Secretary is to contact proposed event organisers to confirm the events, prior to publication of an official calendar. This calendar will be hopefully available in time to include in the Liffey Descent entrant’s race packs.

 

 

 

·       Equipment:

 

Several race bibs are missing. It was agreed that replacement ones be purchased. The secretary is to organise this.

 

The equipment officer gave a summary of the location of the Wavehoppers.

 

The USB lead from the video camera is missing. If it is not found, the equipment officer is to arrange the purchase of a replacement cable.

 

 

·       Website:

 

The Chairman is to contact Feargal Walsh regarding the new website to get information ported across so the new site can go live. It had been agreed previously that the transition would take place in the off season.

 

 

·       Coaching:

 

The Secretary gave a summary of the recent coach development program presentation recently held at the Irish Canoe Union offices. It is hoped to get several experienced Wild Water Racers, who are actively involved in coaching qualified as level 1 and level 2 coaches.

 

 

·       AOB: