In 2022 the club competed in 15 events for the year travelling the length and breath of the country. The club had 6 athletes who qualified for the World Rowing Coastal Championships in Wales. And two of those athletes were selected for the Worlds and European Beach Sprint Championships.
The club also competed in Olympic flatwater regattas this year with junior rowers travelling to Athlone and Carrick-on-Shannon.
In Athlone the club had five crews entered coming home with one gold, two silver and one bronze. For some of the junior rowers this was their first flat water regatta and they succeeded immensely.
In the Carrick-on-Shannon regatta, the club entered nineteen crews consisting of all junior rowers, taking back sixteen medals including 6 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze, this was a massive achievement for club.
The club competed in the Irish Offshore Rowing Championships in Wicklow in eight out of the nine categories coming up against some of the best rowers in the country. However, the clubs’ athletes rose above the challenge and received, 2 gold and 3 bronze medals, which was an extremely successful and impressive day.
Lastly, in October the club travelled to Wales for the World Rowing Coastal Championships and to Spain to the European Coastal Rowing Championships . Where they competed in, Senior men singles, Senior men’s double, Senior men’s quad, Senior women’s double, senior women’s quad, and the Mixed double. Cian Sweeney and Michael O’Boyle competed in the Senior Men’s double coming second in the B Final. The Men’s quad also came third in the B Final. Caitlin Ward and Mairead McCloskey, Leah Gallagher and Aoibhe Sweeney competed in the Senior women’s double coming fourth and fifth in the B Final. The Women’s quad also came third in the B Final. Patrick Boomer made the A Final in the Men’s solo and the Mixed double. Patrick took home bronze medal along with his partner Monika in the mixed double. This is the first International medal for the club.
The club had three athletes representing Ireland this year: Cian, Michael and Patrick.
Cian was selected to cox the National Mixed quad in the World Rowing Beach Sprints in Wales. Michael was selected to represent Ireland in the European Coastal Rowing Beach Sprints Championships in the junior men’s solo in spain. Patrick was also selected to represent Ireland in the European Coastal Rowing Endurance Championships in the Men’s single and the Mixed double.
To have 3 athletes representing Ireland at these events this year was a massive accomplishment for a wee club.
The club has now two young athletes trialing for the High-Performance Irish Squad.
Overall, the club took back forty-three medals to Donegal this year including sixteen gold, ten silver and seventeen bronze. Two gold and three bronze of which were National Medals and one bronze which is an International Medal.
The club works closely with their local comprehensive school in glenties introducing rowing and also runs beginner-training camps to get more young people involved in the sport.
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