SPC wins National Mixed Championship in SDBF 2010

SPC in boat 6, NJC in boat 4 -- Priceless
it's official, winning by a pixel, boat #6, SPC !!! - race announcer

For 8,999,999,970 people on this planet, July 11th was the day Spain lifted the world cup. For 30 SPCers, it was the day that we came back and lifted the National Champion Mixed 20 trophy.

This was an outstanding achievement and shows why you train, why you make those sacrifices and why you keep pushing and pushing yourselves.

Make no mistake the level of competition we were up against was immense. NJC are the current world junior champions, Mountbatten fielded many current and ex NTeam rowers and NTU and SAFSA are true power houses in Singapore.

Special thanks to Trey, Monico and George who came back and helped us out on the day to field an impressive mens crew in our Mens Minor Final. Also for Rod McCurdy who lived the dream by drumming and we got some great support from the Paddlers In Pink - Breast Cancer Awareness. Stay tuned for more events with those fantastic ladies.

Derek was the race weekend coach and did a fantastic job pushing us hard and keeping ourselves composed. Machiko looked after the registrations, boat draws and generally herded us in the right direction, Jeremy generally steered us in the right direction, Lerma kept us fed with brownies and Manfred bailed.



-- Euan Beer


That's the message from SPC's President. No doubt there will be more stories later on. Also, we'll be waiting for our two coaches' (Derek and Nick) take on the weekend.

... AND ! How do you know when SPC is winning?

Answer: when your drummer changes from this:

drummer before being National Champions

into this :

drummer after getting National Championship medals :-)

Lastly, every race, you hear lots of obvious statements being said in SPC's tent. Here are two that I overheard :

it's not Inter Business House Championship, not some Inter Club Championship, we are now the National Champions - Eam S

we couldn't field a strong women's big boat, we couldn't field a strong men's big boat, then we win the national mixed championships... - Boxy