Album

Here are a selection of photos over the years. If you have any photos you would like added, please e-mail the secretary and we can add them in.

Fiona Pennie with our next generation of girls at Alva – April 2019

Central Squads – 2018/2019

First training session for development Squad at Alva in October 2018 and squad T-shirts for performance Squad.  Great group of keen paddlers from CR CATS, Strathallan, Pinkston Panthers and Forth CC.

Holmepierrepont Camp – August 2018

At the BBQ during the Holme Pierrepont camp, the younger CR CATS paddlers were delighted to meet Olympians and Silver medallists, Campbell Walsh ( one of our first club members) and Luuka Jones from the New Zealand Team.  Campbell now coaches the New Zealand team.  Here are Campbell and Luuka modelling the club hoodie and jacket.

Holmepierrepont Camp – January 2019

Cammie is clearly enjoying the new year training.

Slalom Inspires – Tay River Trip December 2018

Fiona Pennie joining the girls river trip with a Christmas theme.

CR CATS Club boats

The club have 8 JEM Racing Spitfire and Vortex boats with the CR CATS logo as well as 2 Vadja C1s with the CR CATS logo.

Scottish Schools Water bottles for 2018 and 2019

Scottish Champs

Here is the Scottish Champs K1W Trophy which has been won by club members Fiona Pennie and Kim Walsh over many years.

St Pierre Camp – July 2018

Thursday night BBQ and team photo.  The annual Head to Head race was great fun with Michael and Andy providing great entertainment.

British Team 2013

This years U23 and Junior team included Bradley Forbes Cryans and Michael Brown from CR CATS, Eilidh Gibson and Rachel Houston from Strathallan and our club coach, Neil Caffrey.

London 2012 Olympics

Johnny had a great day after being nominated to run with the Olympic Torch through the streets of Stirling – what an honour.  He actually ran 2 legs and met many former pupils from Riverside, Wallace HS and Denny HS.

St Pierre Camp 2017

Another amazing summer camp run by Jane Gibson with help from Janet Peck and Johnny Brown

Summer Beginner Camps 2018

We have been running beginners summer camps at the club site since 2015.  Here are our coaches resting between sessions and one of the summer camp groups.

Summer Training at Grandtully 2018

Here we have Piotr coaching from the bank, the paddlers doing a course walk and Johnny explaining the course to Olivia

Paddlers at Pinkston

One of our club paddlers in Antartica – December 2018

Johnny Brown- Ed Ecclestone Award

Neil Caffrey

Campbell Walsh is a club member whose achievements include winning a silver medal at the olympics, winning a silver and two bronze medals at the World Championships, being the 2008 European Champion and the 2009 European Team Champion along with Rich Hounslow and Huw Swetnam.

Michael Brown Pinkston

The CR CATS logo

Fiona Pennie is a club member whose achievements include winning a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 2000, winning the overall Junior World Cup Series in the same year. As a U23, she won a bronze medal in 2004 and another bronze medal in 2005, both at the U23 European Championships. She won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three silvers and a bronze. She became European Champion in 2013 and also won a silver medal and three bronze medals at the European Championships.

Bradley is a club member who is a part of the senior GB team, his life motto is “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard”