{"id":30,"date":"2013-08-09T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sunshinecoastkayakclub\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2024-12-21T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T03:25:42","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/home\/profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Sunshine Coast Paddlesports Club History<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sunshine Coast Paddlesports Club was formed in 1983 as the Sunshine Coast Canoe Club to enable Sunshine Coast kayakers to compete internationally including at the Olympic Games.&nbsp; Flat-water kayaking, both sprint and marathon remains the core function of the SCPC. Since 2011 the club has welcomed paddlers in Dragon Boats, Outrigger canoes, Stand-Up-Paddle Boards and Plastic Sit-On-Tops. Come-and Try days are conducted regularly. The club holds two main races annually: &nbsp;the Maroochy Marathon and the Maroochy River Paddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OUR OLYMPIANS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grant Kenny: 1984, 1988<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul Gilmore : 1988<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clint Robinson: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rachel Lovell: 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alyssa Bull: 2016, 2020, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alyce Wood (nee Burnett): 2016, 2020, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alexandra Clarke 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early history can be traced from account book entry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1983 \/84&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Account book lists : Rankin, Dalziel, Gilmour, and Campbell&nbsp; in September as paying subs &amp; grants for Q A C F. In December, Jane Uren, Shane Dalziel, Noel Kelk, P &amp; L Manly, Judy Mongan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the years go by famous names appear on the pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1985\/86\/87 &nbsp;&nbsp;The names \u201cKenny\u201d, \u201cRobinson\u201d and \u201cJackson\u201d appear for the first time. &nbsp;Fay Kenny, Ron Robinson &amp; Ted Jackson \u2013 parents of Grant, Clint and Norm. Many of our club members in those days were Australian reps &amp; wore green &amp; gold as a club uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1989 Danny Topfer joined 1990 Norm Jackson.&nbsp; 1992 Nev Mayfield 1993&nbsp; Maureen Harvey ( Jackson) , Fred &amp; Gloria O\u2019Neill,&nbsp; Bob Hamblet &amp; Dave Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1993 Maroochy Shire Council supports the Club with $10,000 for canoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1994 The name T Hendy appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early club days were held at Picnic Point, Maroochydore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1999 Clubhouse built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2009 Ten year lease signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2010 Extension built &amp; opened&nbsp; \u2013 John Smallwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 Todd Grace brings Olympic hopefuls to our club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2020 COVID<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2023 Council lease renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2023 QAS squads under Sharlene Kelly and emergence of young champions like Bryon Dieckmann, Dakota Luke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2024 Todd Grace second in the ICF world ocean racing championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine Coast Paddlesports Club History The Sunshine Coast Paddlesports Club was formed in 1983 as the Sunshine Coast Canoe Club to enable Sunshine Coast kayakers to compete internationally including at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":352,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/3394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshinecoastpaddlesportsclub.com.au\/sckc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}