Coaches

Andy Jaggard

Andy started coxing and sculling, at King Edward 6th Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was Captain of Boats. At Durham University he coxed the University 1st 4, competing at Henley Royal Regatta.

As he outgrew the cox’s seat he concentrated on rowing and sculling, while occasionally coxing ‘the City’ in head to head eights showdowns with the University.

After a 20 year break Andy returned to Durham and resumed rowing and sculling as a ‘Master’, competing on the North-East regatta circuit, and in the Long Distance Sculling Heads.

(Between 2007 and 2011 I suffered 3 major accidents & operations, a smashed patella, a back operation, and a broken shoulder requiring reconstruction with metal rods – hence the crooked sculling style!)

Sculling at Durham Head, February 2018, part of the Long Distance Sculling Series with thanks to the late Al Johnson for this and many other rowing photos

In the last fifteen years, he has competed regularly at National Masters, Henley Masters, and World Masters, winning four silver medals at Nationals, one as the stroke of a four, one in double sculls, and two in ‘Championship’ single sculls. In 2013 Andy and his partner, John Lund were Champions at Henley Masters Regatta in double sculls. In that year, Andy also came 2nd in the single scull at the World Masters on Lake Varese in Italy. In 2017 he was 2nd in the single scull at the World Masters in Bled, Slovenia.

The stunning Lake Bled. World Masters, Slovenia, September 2017

In 2018 he was runner up in the single at Henley Masters Regatta. In 2019 Andy, together with Nick Cowan of Lakeland Rowing Club, won gold in ‘F’ double sculls at the World Masters on Lake Vellence in Hungary. (Nick won 3 golds at that regatta! 2 in mixed sculls with Sam Ayers)

‘F’ double sculls, World Masters, Lake Vellence, Hungary – September 2019

Andy coaches a Women’s Masters group at Durham Amateur Rowing Club and specialises in running training programmes for groups of single scullers

  • Making the transition from a training single (Glide One) to a fine scull
  • Intermediate fine sculling.(objective – develop confidence/competence in a fine scull over 10 sessions)
  • ‘Faster sculling’ and race training

With the recent pandemic crisis and single sculling as ‘the only game in town’, Andy has been involved in the initiative with the Glide One training sculls to get crew scullers and non-scullers out on the water developing their single sculling skills.