A Colac rowing club wants its rowers to embrace rowing without water. Lake Colac Rowing Club has about 30 social and active members and wants its members to embrace indoor rowing competitions. Secretary Michael Heaton-Harris said the club would focus on indoor [...]

Colac rower Michael Heaton-Harris has his sights set on a world rowing championship in two years after winning a national title. Heaton-Harris won an Australian Indoor Rowing Championship at Caulfield Grammar School at the weekend. Heaton-Harris, who represented Corio Bay Rowing Club, rowed 1280 metres in four minutes on an [...]

Colac’s Michael Heaton-Harris has won a World Masters’ Games gold medal. Heaton-Harris won a gold medal in the B Mixed double scull race with Richmond’s Annalise Gehling. “We both have the same coach, Neville Smith, and when we had time trials two weeks ago he suggested we partner up and [...]

Colac rower Michael Heaton-Harris will compete against  former Olympians in a bid to win a world masters championship. Heaton-Harris will compete in five events at the World Masters’ Games in Sydney starting tomorrow. He will compete in the men’s single scull, the men’s double scull with his brother Chris, [...]

A junior Colac rower is continuing his good form by claiming a win at a rowing regatta. Tom O’Connor won the B final at the Murray Rowing Association Regatta at Rutherglen on Saturday. Lake Colac Rowing Club secretary Michael Heaton-Harris said Tom had a promising future in rowing. [...]

A Colac rower will train for about nine months to prepare for the 2009 World Masters Games.Lake Colac Rowing Club secretary Michael Heaton-Harris said he would start to train for the World Masters Games in Sydney early next year.“I’ll probably need to do eight to nine months of fairly intense training every day and that [...]

Colac Rowing Club will spend almost $30,000 on a new boat. Club secretary Michael Heaton-Harris said the club’s fundraiser at Apollo Bay Music Festival raised $4000 with money going towards the new eight-person boat. “We had a fundraiser at Apollo Bay for the music festival and we raised in excess [...]