Newsletter February 2025 (1)

Dear MRCler,
Dear rowing friends

In the February Newsletter we report on

the workshop and preliminary drafts for the renovation of the main building
the topic of safe sports and our working group on prevention
the next rowing courses for children
Training camp Masters in April/May
the Ergometer Women's Challenge Results
the 2025 dates and competitions in March

We would also like to ask the members in training to send their evidence of formal qualifications to the administration. birgit.hassler@mrc1880.de to be sent so that the membership fees for this year can be calculated correctly.

Your board of directors

Workshop Renovation of the main building

Last week, the board invited a colorful cross-section of club members to a workshop on the renovation of the main house. With the intention of representing as many interests and perspectives as possible, we still had to limit the number of participants. We ask for your understanding. Representatives from the board and honorary council, the grassroots sport, the kitchen and event planning, the house and courtyard, the power rowers, as well as architects and historians were present. The evening started with a guided tour through all the rooms to the last corners of our clubhouse, and the recording of their peculiarities and problems. Then we incubated in group work via questionnaires on our needs. Later, architect Sünder-Plassmann presented us with two pre-designs that could be approved, which resulted from his feasibility study, and it was discussed in groups.

Reinhard Niejodek from the Bistro 1880 team took care of the physical well-being, Martina Keiser helped actively in the preparation of the hall, and the Munich8 had specially changed their training plan so that we could enter the hall. Thank you to everyone!

Your opinion is asked:

Now we would like to hear your opinion on the preliminary drafts. After extensive preparatory work by Ulrike Mertz, Martina Günther and Anja Eckert, the architectural firm Sünder-Plassmann has documented the major construction and conversion phases of our clubhouse from 1884 to the present day.

In the feasibility study, 3 variants are now presented, all of which hang in the hallway between the club room and the men's shower in front of the meeting room.

Variant A: A restocking of the new boat hall will not be approved.

Variants B and C: Both can be approved with the extension of the attic.

Please write down your questions and ideas about these two variants! In the hall on the counter are papers, next to it is a cardboard box ready. Next week, the same will be installed in the ladies' house and in the power room.

We also plan to be there before the Annual General Meeting at certain times (such as on the last Saturday after rowing or after the training of the Munich8 Group on the last Tuesday) in order to explain the plans personally so that we at the JHV can decide as broadly, well-informed and well-founded as possible on the proposal of the Executive Board for the continuation of the planning. More details about the dates soon.

Safe sport: News from the MRC1880 Prevention Working Group

As you may have noticed, the topic of safe sports is increasingly the focus of sports organizations, the public and politics. Sports clubs must be a safe place for everyone. As a civil society actor, sport assumes responsibility and has an impact beyond its borders. All 16 state sports associations want to bind themselves to the newly developed Safe Sport Code (SSC). The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) also unanimously adopted the SSC at its general meeting, thus setting a ‘milestone’ in the fight against interpersonal violence.

The member associations and associations of the DOSB (including DRV, Bay. Landes-Sportverband) were obliged to submit the introduction of an individual code to their general meetings for a vote by 2028 at the latest. Until 2032, member organisations, such as associations, can also adopt the SSC rulebook and include it in their statutes. The independent BMI (Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland) Contact point for Safe Sport has started its work.

Within the framework of the research project Safe Clubs The German Sport University Cologne and Ulm University Hospital have developed a transfer concept to protect against sexualised and interpersonal violence and presented it together with the German Sport Youth in November 2024. Our AK ‘Prevention’ was also represented at this congress. Our team not only benefited from free and unlimited access to the tools from this project, but also received permission to use supplementary material after separate training. The German Rowing Association is also active in the field of prevention: As part of his digital DRJ training series 2025, he released the module Protection Concepts at the beginning of February, in which our AK participated.

AK Prevention current:

For the development of a protection concept, a survey of children and adolescents is currently taking place on how they perceive the training, the regatta and club operations. A questionnaire (U14 and Ü14 – drawn up by the German Sport University Cologne) was sent to all members aged 12 to 21. We hope for a big return until 28.02.2025. We also plan workshops (with work materials from safe clubs) for parents, interested adults, athletes and trainers. Among other things, we want to think about which situations can lead to what kind of actual or felt violence, what consequences violence can have and how we can prevent such situations.

The beginning was on 22.02.2025 a corresponding workshop for trainers in grassroots sports and those responsible for exercise groups.

If you have any questions, concerns, ideas or need to talk, all members of the association can contact the contact persons of the working group at any time: These are Kristin Teuber, Manja Arlt, Dilan Cosar, Audrey Delphendahl, Christian Horbach, Michael Alt, Claus E Krüger under safe-sport@mrc1880.de. External bodies are: www.ansprechstelle-safe-sport.de.

If you would like to find out more about protection against interpersonal violence in organised sport, you can find important information at https://www.dosb.de/themen/werte-des-sports/safe-sport or https://safe-clubs.de.

Rowing Learning for Kids in the MRC1880

Spring is almost here, and so is the time for the first children's beginners' course in 2025.

It is one of three courses offered by us this year:

Course 1: 29.03.25 – 12.04.25 (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday)
Course 2: 25.06.25 – 16.07.25 (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday)
Course 3: 15.09.25 – 08.10.25 (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday)

The courses are suitable for children from 11 to 15 years, and cost 80 euros each.

More information can be found here including an online registration form.

Share the information with your friends and acquaintances. We look forward to full courses!

Training camp Masterruderer in the rowing center Völkermarkt

There are still places available, especially in the 2. Camp in early May. Here the tender In addition to pictures of the training camps last year at Lake Como.

DRV and Concept2 Women’s Rowing Challenge – MRC1880

For the first time, MRC women took part in the ergometer challenge organised by the DRV.
In the end, 46 women took part, spread over all five age groups, and achieved a total mileage of a whopping 502 km. They made it to 34th place out of 169 in the nationwide club ranking. Here is a report Organizers Audrey, Birgit and Friederike.

Dates 2025

Please note:

Annual General Meeting: 22.03.2025 (Schlossberghalle Starnberg)
Spring cleaning + rowing: 05./06.04.2025
Summer festival: 26.07.2025
Autumn cleaning + rubbing: 25./26.10.2025

Competitions in the near future:

Women’s Eight Head of the River: 07.03.2025 (Munich8)
53rd Heineken Roeivierkamp: 15./16.03.2025 (Munich8)
Ergocup Ammersee: 22.03.2025 (Children and Juniors)
Head of the River: 22.03.2025 (Munich8)