Over the last few years we have increased the level of coaching at the club by employing paid coaches to work alongside our team of volunteer coaches.

As our next step in developing the club we are recruiting a Director of Rowing to lead the coaching team.

This role will be supported by a combination of full time, part time and session coach roles – paid and voluntary.

Our coaching team’s role is to support the club strategy of helping members to achieve their objectives, whether to compete at an international level or have a more enjoyable row down the river. We also continue to welcome members who enjoy rowing and do not necessarily wish to compete.

In order to support our future plans for growth and further development we are currently seeking a number of coaches both voluntary and paid. These can be either part time roles or session coaches.

We are looking to recruit to start between now and early September.

If we identify suitable candidates before this time we will look to make appointments earlier and reserve the right to close applications

We are specifically seeking the following:

Director of Rowing – Full time (although part time an option) - job spec

Additional Session coaches for all squads

Further roles to be advertised shortly.

Finding the right contact

Each of our Squads is coordinated by a Vice Captain. They should be your first port of call for experienced rowers wishing to join the club - also see the Squads pages for more information.  If you're new to the sport, check out our Learn to Row courses, under the Learn Tab.  For Bar and function bookings, plus training camp bookings, see the Venue Hire pages.

VICE CAPTAINS - to discuss squad options

  Welfare Officer Water Safety Advisor Publicity

FURTHER Committee contacts

House Manager: Mark Owens house@readingrc.com (not for events etc, more the building and safety)

Membership Secretary: Baldur Gudbjornsson membership@readingrc.com also covers private boat racking

Open Events Secretary:   Max Heron events@readingrc.com (not venue hire - see Venue Hire section)

Social Secretary: vacant social.secretary@readingrc.com

Kit Officer: Dan Silcock/Tariq Bouldjedri kit@readingrc.com

Boat Manager: Alex Pepper boats@readingrc.com

Venue Hire: Picked up by Secretary/Treasurer/Social on venuehire@readingrc.com

Women’s Masters VC: Vacant

Non committee members

Director of Rowing: Nigel Smith  nigel.smith@readingrc.com  

Club Head Coach: Penny Thatcher  headcoach@readingrc.com

Junior Lead Coach: Will Pratt juniorcoach@readingrc.com

 Please note that Reading Rowing Club does not have a land telephone line although you may find old reference to one.

CLUB HISTORY / ARCHIVE

This page was only started in Jan 2021 and it will take time to build. There is a lot to tell from over 150 Years of rowing at Reading. Notes on the archive provides more information. If you want to submit an item for the archive then please upload to new submissions, ideally as a ‘Word’ document with; image, dates, and names typed on it rather than just on the image.