Darren Cresser gaines his “WILD CARD” invitation to the Great British Senior Team Selection down in London.  Read on to find out more…

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The 9th and 10th April saw quite a busy weekend for the Tigers with both the A and B teams competing in Roundhay Park in Leeds and quite a number competing and supporting up at the division 2/3 slalom event at Fairnilee.  Read on to find out how the weekend went…

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Just a quick reminder that we have now switched to our summer training timetable.  Check it out at the ‘About Us’ tab in the right hand corner of the website. 

And use the Calendar to find out which slalom and polo events the club are attending over the summer.  If you need some advice about events or what to share lifts then check out the forum.

The Tigers kicked the new slalom season off with a (warm!) splash.  The division 4 slalom race was held at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington town centre for the beginners to slalom canoeing.  We had 43 entries, including 14 C2 crews.  The entries were boosted thanks to support from ROCK (Richmond) and a couple of the other North East based clubs.  But most of the entries were new Tees Tiger members from St. John’s Catholic School in Bishop Auckland where Head Coach Nicky teaches and runs an after school kayak club.  Hopefully we’ll see them all at the next Div 4 race and some at the Div 3 races this year as the evening resulted in 7 promotions plus 8 C2 promotions!

You can find the full results on the Slalom UK website at http://www.canoeslalom.co.uk/info/results.shtml

To add a bit of fun for those more experienced paddlers supporting the event, an open competition was held once the main competition was completed.  Time trials were completed to allocate rankings then it was down to a head to head knock out, with the first one over the finish line through to the next round.  Some of the head to heads were pretty close, some not so!  Matt managed to get disqualified when he missed a gate and Tonksie almost managed to keep up with the Olympian!  But in the end Nicky championed, beating Andrew Martin to second place.

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Well it was another extreme weather race weekend for the Tigers!

On the 2nd and 3rd October Middleton-in-Teesdale was resurrected as a slalom venue after many years off the calendar.

A cold but dry Saturday morning dawned with some doubts as to whether the event would go ahead after the river Tees had risen rapidly on Friday after non-stop rain, resulting in some lost gates.  To quote Andy Rhu, it rose by “one meter in five seconds”!  I think you had to see it to believe it! Read more

THREE members of the same Teesside family made waves in canoe slalom as they clinched national promotions on the same day.

Dad Andy Brown and his son Jake and daughter Ellie paddled up the national ladder for their booming club Tees Tigers with first places at Howsham, near York. Read more

What a fantastic weekend at the Holme Pierrepont Div1/2 the ‘better’ half of Tees Tigers had! This included fantastic performances by all the Tigers both on the Slalom course and the Rounders field, superb banter, food and drink around the Cresser campfire and a truly Tiger presence across the whole weekend. The scorching early summer weather added to the idyllic setting in Britain’s fine countryside… Read more

Someone asked Nicky what was happening this weekend just gone. Let’s see if I missed anything out as what a hectic weekend it was for the Tigers! Read more