Northwich Club President Cliff Salt awarded his trophy ' Salt of the Earth' to our retiring club Captain Clare Briegal for her hard work and commitment to the club.
Local M.P. Graham Evans presented the awards to the winners.
The Eddie Phillips Junior Award for the most promising junior of the year went to Harry Blake. Harry has demonstrated dedication and commitment in the short time he has been rowing. He has won races in both his age group and the Novice mens. He been variety of crews including racing with the Grange at the British Championships, in a mixed eight at the Northwich Regatta and with the age group above.
The Dennis Mills Trophy for coxing went to Chloe Weston. Due to an injury Chloe had to stop rowing but picked up a lifejacket and cox box and coxed many crews to victory throughout the year. Chloe has just started at Newcastle University and we are delighted to hear that she is coxing the University first VIII.
The Irvine Award is for the most Improved Rower and this year went to a junior member, Finnian Lawton. Having proved himself in sweep boats with the J16 squad and winning silver at the English Indoor rowing team event he set about trying to master the single scull. He has already won several single events and we expect a great performance this year.
The Simon Crouchley Coaching Award is a way of saying thank you to our coaching team. This year the award goes to Rachel Hooper. Rachel is a previous winner of the George Musker awards and returned to the club last year to help coach our learn 2 row courses.
The Grange School Trophy for Endeavour goes to Ellie Preece who has been helping develop the learn 2 row attendees into novices ready to race.
Finally the George Musker Award. In an amazing year of sport we have been represented again in Senior and Junior GB squads. Previous winners Matt Langridge and Ed Grisedale were both in contention for the George Musker this year for their achievements, however the award goes to
Lucy Burgess.
Lucy is a relatively new member of the club. She came second in the WJ trials in November and went on to win the WJ trials in February. Lucy was selected for Team GB Munich Junior Regatta where she won a silver medal in the W4x. Back in her single she got silver at National Schools regatta. She represented Gb again at the World Junior Championships in Plovdiv where her quad came 7th overall.
