N.Z. rowing team

Press, 20 April 1982, Page 36

N.Z. rowing team

Canterbury has its first club member boated in a New Zealand colts rowing eight for nearly a decade.

Andrew Thorpe, an intermediate rower, impressed sufficiently in the three-day trials at Wanganui last weekend to be included in the New Zealand team which will compete in colts, lightweight, and. women's events in a test series in Australia later this year.

Thorpe, who' has been placed in No. 4 seat, is the first male Canterbury club member named in a New Zealand crew since Bruce Allen toured Australia with the New Zealand colts eight in 1973.

The big boat includes four survivors — Nigel Atherfold, Bruce Tonkin, Avon’s Simon Aplin, and the coxswain. Richard Palmer — from the New Zealand colts eight which retained the Ampol Trophy by beating New South Wales, 3-0, in the test series last year.

Canterbury is extremely well represented in the New Zealand women’s coxed four to tour Australia with Marie McCoy (a 1978 national representative) and Julie Saul (formerly of Blenheim) both in the crew proper, and Penny Thomson, the travelling reserve.

All three were in, the Canterbury women’s eight which captured “blue coats” and the Horowhenua Rose Bowl, for the first time by winning the premier event in the New Zealand championships at Lake Waihola last March.. '

The Press Association reported from Wanganui that a national selector, Mr Peter Irvine, who tested 53 trialists, said that the team had more depth than the one which lost over all to Australia in New Zealand last season.

“This particularly applies to the women who look sharper, and. the light-

weights, who look a lot better," Mr Irvine said. Mr Irvine said that the coaches for the three squads — to assemble from midJuly for 10 weeks training — would be named after a New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association meeting in Wellington this week. The crews chosen were.—

Colts eight: Richard Bindon, stroke (Waikato), Nigel Atherford (Waikato)', Bruce Tonkin (Auckland University), Simon Aplin (Avon), Andrew Thorpe (Canter-’ bury), Stuart Henderson (West End), Mervyn Troughton (Hauraki Plains), Andrew Bruce (West End), Richard Palmer, Cox (Waikato). Grant Botice, travelling reserve (West End). Lightweight coxless four: Richard Redpath, stroke (North Shore), Ross Angus (North Shore). Patrick McCarthy (Auckland University), Colin Thornley (North Shore). Allan Rowe, travelling reserve (Auckland University). Women’s coxed four: Raewyn Lofthouse, stroke (Te Awamutu), Robyn Clarke (Hamilton), Marie McCoy (Canterbury), Julie Said (Canterbury), Claire Gpulin. Cox (Hamilton). Penny Thomson, travelling reserve (Canterbury).