Save the Date for our next Thursday Night Dinner which will be held on Thursday, 30th April, to be hosted by the Junior Boys Squad. Menu details to follow.

ERC welcomes friends and family members to come down and experience rowing and our river. We are also occasionally contacted by overseas rowers with no ERC connection for a row while they’re in Melbourne. This too is fine, and you’ll generally find overseas clubs will be equally welcoming to us when we travel.

Please contact the Captain’s Team in the first instance (captain@essrc.com), to ensure appropriate equipment is used, and that you can provide adequate supervision.

Naturally, if the friend or family member lives locally and finds they enjoy rowing, then please direct them to our website to take up membership (if have prior experience) or to our Learn to Row programs if they are beginners at the sport.

Save the Date for Presentation Night 2026, which is to be held on Saturday, 13th June.

We are also looking to put together a small working group to organise and run Presentation Night. If you have some time on your hands and would like to be involved, please email secretary@essrc.com 

Our February Thursday Night/State Champs dinner was a great success, with the Master's Squad cooking up a fantastic "carbing it up for States" pasta feast. And thank you to Maddie & Bo for supplementing the dessert menu, with their 'trial' wedding cake which most of us got to have a piece of on the night.

Olympic and multi award winning rower, Hannah Every-Hall gave a very inspirational speech with was no doubt enjoyed by all who attended. 

ERC finished an incredible 2nd out of 62 clubs and schools in the medal tally at the NSW State Championships!! 

Our team brought home a whopping 8 medals, including 6 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze:

Gold! CMU21L1x - Tyler Fitzpatrick. Coached by Mark Dwyer

Gold! CWU23L1x - Francesca Spano

Gold! CWEL1x - Rachael Hatherley

Bronze! CWEL1x - Zara Mason

Gold! CMEL2- Tyler Fitzpatrick & T. Hastings (Barwon)

Gold! CWEL8+ Melbourne Uni composite with Rachael, Frankie & Zara

Gold! CMEL8+ Barwon composite with Isaac, Mitchell & Tyler

Silver! CMU194x Corio Bay/ERC composite rowed by Tyler

Unfortunately, 2 events, the CWEL2x and the CMEL2x (to be rowed by Rachael & Frankie, Sophie & Zara, Mitchell & Isaac) on the last day of competition, were cancelled due to lightning, which Mark Dwyer reports, struck the officials box taking out the power for a while.

We are proud of each and every one of our rowers who gave it their all, and we thank their amazing ERC support teams both in Sydney and here at home.

Thank you to all the volunteers, BROS and organisers too who helped to make the event such a great success. Final results are available here

The 2026 RV State Championships were held at Lake Wendouree, Ballarat from Friday 27th February to Sunday 1st March.

It was a huge program of racing with ERC rowers competing in 34 events across the weekend. State Champs always brings out the best - fast racing, tight margins and plenty of club pride on the line. 

Well done to all of our rowers and coxes who raced over the weekend. It's great to see all the hard work the athletes and coaches put in pays off:

Gold !

FLW1X - Rachael Hatherley

FLW4X - Sophie Robe, Rachael Hatherley, Francesca Spano, Zara Mason

MClub2X - Mitchell Jacka, Isaac Sirotic. Coach: Mark Dwyer

FLW2X - Rachael Hatherley, Francesca Spano

MSCH1X01 - Tyler Fitzpatrick. Coach: Mark Dwyer

FSCH1XY101 - Elizabeth Drew Finn. Coaches: Barry Gardner & Glenn Bottrell

MC4+ Louis Sirotic, Ben Stevenson, Lachlan Bird, Hugh Brady. Cox: Elliot Stevenson

FA4X+ Rachael Hatherley, Christine Camiller, Jessie Freestone, Gemma Williamson. Cox: Karen Fitzpatrick

MB4X+ Sam Rowe, Dion Mitchell, Matt Jones, Dave Heyes. Cox: Zara Mason. Coach: Chris Hammon

MA4X+ Rhys Davey, Tyler Fitzpatrick, Mitchell Jacka, Isaac Sirotic. Cox: Karen Fitzpatrick. Coach: Mark Dwyer

FA2X Zara Mason & Rachael Hatherley

FA1X - Zara Mason

MCX2 - Hugh Brady & Lachlan Bird 

Silver !

MA4+ Mitchell Jacka, Isaac Sirotic, Tyler Fitzpatrick, Rhys Davey. Cox: Emmy Fitzpatrick

MC1X - Lachlan Bird

Bronze !

FLW1X - Zara Mason

FU171X - Emma Stevenson. Coaches: Barry Gardner, Glenn Bottrell

FA2X - Jessie Freestone, Christine Camiller

FA1X - Christine Camiller

MC1X - Louis Sirotic

MA2X - Tyler Fitzpatrick, Rhys Davey

ERC ranked second on the club medal tally with 13 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze medals, and Rachael Hatherley winning the individual medal tally with 5 gold medals!

Good luck to our 2026 Australian Rowing Championships team, who will soon be heading over to Lake Barrington, Tasmania to compete from Monday, 23rd to Sunday 29th March. 

Our team for 2026 are:- Tyler Fitzpatrick, Rhys Davey, Francesca Spano, Mitchell Jacka, Isaac Sirotic, Rachael Hatherley, Sophie Robe, Zara Mason and Emma Stevenson. 

What a weekend on the Barwon! The Junior Girls Squad had some great results and fun at the 2026 Head of the Schoolgirls' Regatta!

All of the girls who competed should be very proud of their efforts in such an incredible event.

Female School Single Scull Year 10 Division 1 -

Gold - Emma Stevenson

Bronze - Elizabeth Drew Finn

Thank you to all 3 coaches Barry Gardner, Glenn Bottrell and Ben Delaney who are always there to support the girls. Also a shout out to Jessie Freestone and Sophie Robe from the Senior Women's Squad, who came down to cheer the girls on. It was great also to see Rachael Hatherley, Frankie Spano and Zara Mason in their interstate quad display race and handing out medals at the presentation. 

Pene Wood - Senior Membership

Carson Rinckes - Youth Membership

Nalini Blacker - Senior Membership

Thursday Night Dinner - Thursday, 30th April

Presentation Night - Saturday,13th June