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12 Mar 2010	Canning Ascent Race 4 Results
5 Mar 2010	Bevan Dashwood Dash
2 Mar 2010	2010 National Sprint Championships Website and Schedule
2 Mar 2010	WAIS Athletes the new Oceania Canoe Slalom Champions
2 Mar 2010	Sprint wind-up
2 Mar 2010	Australian Canoe Marathon Championships
2 Nov 2009	Spirit Paddlesports Summer Race Series Points

Canning Ascent Race 4 Results Sam Lyons, Friday, 12 March 2010 Other Links   Canning Ascent Race 4 Results

Bevan Dashwood Dash Kylie Broad, Friday, 5 March 2010 The Bevan Dashwood Dash Sunday, 21st March.  Following on from the huge success of the 2009 event the Bevan Dashwood Dash is on again.   There is a course for everyone;   ·         Long Course 12km: Kent St Weir to Shelley Bridge, then to Hester Park & back to Kent St Weir, portage at Kent St Weir.   ·         Short Course 6km: Kent St Weir to Shelley Bridge & return. ·         Guppy Course: 3km   Bring your whole family; enjoy the beautiful surrounds of the Kent St Weir and support the Slalom Technical Committee’s Cafe.  Deluxe hamburgers are back (order online to avoid missing out) along with cakes, muffins, tea & coffee. Canoeing Down Under is generously sponsoring the event and the monster raffle will be on again. Money raised goes towards sending juniors to the  2011 Canoe Slalom Nationals in New South Wales.   Online Registration opens Sunday 7th March   More on the Bevan Dashwood Dash This race is an old favourite - the upper reaches of the Canning make for a twisty-turny course with tree lined banks and much birdlife. There's a portage at Kent Street Weir. It's easy to get lost if you haven't done this course before so photocopy the street directory of the relevant pages and do a practice run. The floating (rather pretty) "weed" you see may slow you down, but it's harmless. The following paragraph comes from a February, 1999, edition of Canoe WA, the canoeing association's former magazine:  "According to a scientist at the Water and Rivers Commission it (the "weed") is a harmless floating fern called azola which helps to keep the blue-green algae at bay (competes for the nutrients). Currents and the wind cause it to collect in certain places. You can paddle through it; it's not toxic and will wash off your boat." Who is Bevan Dashwood? He's one of that group of pioneering canoeists who started it all in Western Australia in the mid sixties. And he's still paddling! He started up Darling Range Canoe Club whose home waters are this section of the Canning River.  He has made an important contribution to canoeing, in particular, slalom, and is a life-time member of the state canoeing association.

2010 canoe sprint champs 2010 National Sprint Championships Website and Schedule Kylie Broad, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 The website for the 2010 Sprint Nationals has been launched along with the provisional schedule and entry list. Other Links   Event Website

WAIS Athletes the new Oceania Canoe Slalom Champions Kylie Broad, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 WAIS athletes Robin Jeffery and Kynan Maley take the Oceania crown in the men's C2 event   Last weekend, at the 2010 Oceania Open held at Penrith Whitewater Stadium, WAIS athletes Robin Jeffery and Kynan Maley took the Oceania crown in the men's C2 event. Maley and Jeffery have only recently teamed up to contest the C2 class and have already enjoyed great success in spite of having to borrow an older C2 boat. "We're hoping to improve on our times as we've just taken delivery of a top racing lay-up C2", said Jeffery.   Jeffery, from Gooseberry Hill and Maley, from North Fremantle, were forced to relocate to Penrith in New South Wales as there is no longer a white water venue in Western Australia. "There's a big push for an artificial course in Perth and all the West Australian paddlers in Penrith would be keen to move back home if that happened", said Maley.    The Oceania Open saw nineteen countries and over 200 athletes competing. These races were also the first leg of the selection races for the 2010 Australian Canoe Slalom Team that will compete later this year in the World Cup races in Spain, Germany and Czech Republic and the World Championships in Slovenia.    Maley and Jeffery will be competing again at the remaining selection races to be held on 6 & 7 March at the difficult Brady's Lake course in Tasmania. Both athletes are also competing in the C1 class and if successful will represent Australia in two classes, in accordance with the new International Canoe Federation rules.    For more information contact: Margaret Jeffery Chair, WA Slalom Technical Committee, Canoeing Western Australia 0415 221 058 or artgraph@iinet.net.au   or Kynan Maley - c1kynan@yahoo.com or Robin Jeffery - rjeffery87@hotmail.com 0431 101 105

Sprint wind-up Kylie Broad, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 2009/10 Sprint wind-up presentation night! this Friday! Just a reminder about the 2009/10 Sprint wind-up presentation night this coming Friday at the Willeton Sports Club, in the Blue Room, Burrendah Boulevarde, Willetton Start is at 7pm.  The Willeton sports club is a fully licensed venue, food and drinks can be purchased at the bar just outside our room.    The night will consist of presentations of the State Sprint medals, regatta season prizes and State Sprint Nationals Jackets.  We will hold all the guppy presentations first followed by a small break which will allow those guppy paddlers who need to head off to bed a chance to leave early if they need.  We hope to have all the presentations completed by 9.30 but we have the room until 11pm for those who wish to socialize after the presentations.

Australian Canoe Marathon Championships Kylie Broad, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 Entries for the 2010 Australian Canoe Marathon Championships are now open! Entries for the 2010 Australian Canoe Marathon Championships are now open - please see the link below. Closing date for early bird entries have been extended until Wednesday 24 March 2010 with late entries closing on 30 March 2010.  No entries will be accepted after this date. ELIGIBILITY Entrants MUST be a current financial member of Australian Canoeing. International competitors must be a current financial member of a national organisation affiliated with the ICF. International competitors will need to show evidence of membership from their national body. International competitors will need to contact the Australian Canoeing office to submit their entries. Ages Juniors ages are taken as at 1 January 2010. A Veteran competitor can compete in a veteran event in the year he or she reaches the lower limit of the age category, i.e. in the 35-39 age group in the year of his or her 35th birthday. In double events the age of the youngest competitor will control the category in which a crew can compete. Age group categories will commence from age 35-39 and increase upwards in 5-year age brackets. Entries now open - http://canoe.org.au/?Page=18729

Spirit Paddle Sports Spirit Paddlesports Summer Race Series Points Kylie Broad, Monday, 2 November 2009   After a hard-fought racing season we have the provisional final results in the Spirit Paddlesports Summer Race Series.  Please check your score carefully as in two weeks time these results will become official!  To qualify for a series ranking, you had to complete EITHER 5 of the 6 races OR 3 of the first 5 races, plus the Doctor. The attached results include people who were on track to qualify for a series ranking heading into the Doctor. Your top five scores were counted; if you did all 6 races we dropped your lowest score (in blue font). Please let Di know if you have any questions or spot an error - dianearnott@yahoo.com Congratulations to all who competed in the series!!!     Other Links   SPIRIT PADDLESPORTS SUMMER RACE SERIES POINT SYSTEM