National Rowing Championships of Great Britain
2003
Silver Medal Womens J14 2X
Kayleigh Warwick Jodie Mark
Kayleigh and Jodie cooling down After Receiving their Silver Medal
Kayleigh and Jodie with their Coach Graeme Mark
The season's hard work and training sessions finally paid dividends for Talkin Tarn Rowing Club's duo of Jodie Mark and Kayleigh Warwick, when they won the silver medal for Womens Junior 14 Double Sculls at the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain 2003 held at Strathclyde Country Park, Motherwell over 3 days last weekend and rowed over the International 6 lane 2000 metre course.
Under the watchful eye of Coach Graeme Mark, himself a past finalist, they have
maintained a steady success of wins throughout the season building up for this race.
They qualified with a comfortable semi-
Junior Coach of the Year Award 2004
Graeme Mark
In 2004, Graeme Mark was awarded with the Junior Coach of the Year Award for the North East of England Region. He also received recognition from the clubs Governing Body, the Amateur Rowing Association for all the success and development in Junior Rowing at club level. In recent years, he has coached Silver and Bronze Medallists at National and Regional level. In 2003, he was the coach of Jodie Mark and Kayleigh Warwick who gained Silver medal at the National Championships and again at Junior Inter Regionals. 2004 saw him coach Danny Mark and Carl Maw and gaining a Bronze medal at the National Championships. At the recent National Championships, his crew of Jodie Mark and Kate Brown won a Bronze medal in Womens Junior 18 Pair, after only being coached in that particular boat for two weeks.
Record Number of Wins
Over 100 wins within the past year it is not surprising that Talkin Tarn Amateur Rowing Club has become a club with one of the most successful junior sections in the country.
The club have a grand total of 108 wins from various regattas and Championships from
as near as Hexham to places further down south such as Manchester, Bradford and Nottingham.
Seven years ago, the club could only manage 12 wins with just seven crews competing.
Fast-
To start this year, Talkin Tarn ARC competed at National Indoor Rowing Championships; first the English and then the Scottish. The English Indoor Rowing Event saw the club picking up 5 medals; all from the women’s squad. Kate Brown gained Gold in Womens Junior 18 Sprint of 500 metres, and Bronze in the 2000 metre race. Alex Hill won two Silver medals in Womens Junior 15 2000 metres and Womens Junior 16 Sprint. The fifth medal, Bronze, was picked up by Kim Warwick competing in Womens 30 – 39 2000 metres. The Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships saw the boys winning the majority of the medals. Alex Widdowson gained Gold in Mens Junior 12, George Gawne also a Gold medal winner in Mens Junior 10 and Connor Mark winning Bronze in Mens Junior 13. Kate Brown also won a Bronze medal competing in Womens Junior 16 2000 metres.
The club began the spring/summer season at Chester-
This year, the Talkin Tarn Club sent four crews to the National Championships of
Great Britain, held at Holme-
Finishing off this years wins, the club competed in the North of England Long Distance Sculling Series, held over six consecutive Saturdays on the Rivers Tyne, Tweed, Wansbeck, Tees and Wear of distances from 1800m to 5000m. Five wins were recorded from these events. Matt Gawne and Connor won two from Tyne and Wear, Nick Cowan at Hylton and Kim Warwick, Charlotte Brown, Catherine Gammage, Alex Hill and Beth Bareham winning Womens Senior 4 Coxed Quad at Tees and, along with Claire Nugent, also won Fastest Womens Coxed Quad over the whole Series.
Club Chairman Mike Dodd said; ‘It’s a real achievement for a club like ours, with few members and little facilities, to have a record win of 108 in a year. The club members should be proud of themselves. A lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes from volunteers who give up their spare time to coach, man safety boats on club sessions, secretarial work, transporting to and from regattas and basically pushing the club in the right direction. The year after next, we will be celebrating our 150th anniversary. The club has defiantly moved forward over the last few years and exciting times lie ahead.’
This is not to say this total cannot be matched next year, Talkin Tarn ARC will be aiming to pull out all the stops to top this years achievements.
Boat Naming Ceremony
On Saturday 1st November, Talkin Tarn ARC held a boat naming ceremony at Talkin Tarn Country Park.
The club has purchased several second hand boats over the past few years and decided
to rename them with names more appropriate to the club. The latest additions to the
Tarn fleet were three boats purchased from St Leonard’s School -
Another Quad Scull, which was given to the club by Peter Little of Merchant Taylor’s School, was named “Peter’s Gift”. Peter sadly passed away after long illness early this year.
The club also christened a set of sculling blades which were kindly donated by local butcher Colin and Rosemary Moore.
Above Left: The fleet of boats
Above Right: Jimmy Harrison
Above: The Juniors in the newly christened boats
Below: Food was served throughout the event
Junior Inter-
2003
Silver Medal Womens J14 2X
Kayleigh Warwick Jodie Mark
Cumbrian rowers Kayleigh Warwick and Jodie Mark beat off hot competition from top English youngsters to clinch silver medals.
The Brampton pair finished second in the Womens Junior 14 Double Sculls event
at the Junior Inter-
The members of Talkin Tarn Amateur Rowing Club represented the north against 11 other regions and only missed out on the gold medal by a fraction of a second.
In the six-
In the final, they clocked three minutes and 47.3 seconds, but were pipped by Upper Thames, who won in three minutes 47.1 seconds with only a few inches separating both crews.
Jodie’s brother Danny Mark was part of a Mens Northern Junior Quadruple Sculls team, but they just failed to qualify for the final by finishing fourth in their heat.
However, they finished second in the ‘petite’ final for non-
Kayleigh and Jodie’s silver medal earned them 11 points and the 16 points from
Talkin Tarn rowers helped the north win the runners-