British Rowing Coach of the Year Awards 2009

These annual awards are an opportunity for the rowing community to recognise and celebrate the tremendous contribution of our coaches (paid and unpaid) to the success of our sport.  It gives everyone a chance to say thank you.

The process for selecting the 2009 award winners starts with any individual, crew, squad, or club, submitting a nomination to their Regional Rowing Council for the Regional Coach of the Year event.  The Regional winners are then put forward to the National Awards judging panel who will determine who receives the National Awards.  In addition, the panel may decide to make a special award.

Take a moment to look back over the year – is there coach you think ought to be nominated for any of the five awards below?

Development Programme Coach of the Year
The coach who has made the most significant impact on your local community by providing new opportunities for new groups of people to become involved in the sport of rowing.  We are particularly looking for programmes that have built on good coaching practices and drawn on the resources available to them, such as the Learn to Row programmes.  We will be looking for evidence that the programme has led to a sustainable increase in membership at local clubs.  The award is open to an individual or a team.  Examples of such programmes are:

•    Young Person’s programme aimed at those who would normally never have the opportunity to row
•    Adaptive programme
•    Row to Health programme
•    Recreational programme
•    Corporate Rowing programme

Young Coach of the Year
This award recognises the important work carried out by young coaches and provides an opportunity to highlight up-and-coming coaches through recognition of their coaching achievements so far.  Nominees must be aged 25 years or under on 31 December 2009.

Junior Coach of the Year
The coach who in your opinion has made the most significant impact on the performance or development of School or Junior club crew/s during 2009.

Senior Coach of the Year
The coach who has made the most significant impact on the performance or development of Senior Club crew/s during 2009.

The Coaching Team of the Year
The team that has made the most significant impact on the performance and/or development of a group of participants.

All nominees must be registered members of British Rowing

A nomination form can be downloaded here.  It is aslso available to download on the Coaching and Training section of the British Rowing website.  Nominations for Regional Awards close on Friday 31 December 2009.

Nominations from the Regions must arrive at British Rowing HQ no later than Wednesday 19 January 2010 (see form for further details).  Winners of the National Awards will be invited to attend the GB Senior Team Assessment on Sunday 14 February 2010 at Dorney.

For further information contact Brian Smyth on 0208 2376711 or email brian.smyth@britishrowing.org

The national judges will only consider nominations endorsed by the Regional Rowing Councils.  The decision of the judges will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into regarding their decision.