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What Whitewater Club do you race for?
Since 1988, the traveling "Club" Trophy is awarded to the top placing whitewater racing club at the Whitewater Slalom National Championships. “Club Trophy” points are earned in each class: 1st place = 3 points, 2nd place = 2 points, and 3rd place = 1 point. 3 boats needed to make a class. The club with the most points wins.
1988 Canoe Cruisers Association, CCA 1989 Canoe Cruisers Association 1990 Canoe Cruisers Association 1991 Canoe Cruisers Association 1992 CCA-Bethesda Center of Excellence, BCE 1993 CCA-BCE 1994 CCA-BCE 1995 CCA-BCE 1996 CCA-BCE 1997 Nantahala Racing Club, NRC Rhinos 1998 NRC Rhinos 1999 NRC Rhinos 2000 NRC Rhinos 2001 NRC Rhinos 2002 BCE 2003 NRC Rhinos 2004 Kern River Alliance 2006 BCE 2007 BCE 2008 BCE Red River Racing 2nd place with an impressive showing in the women's classes: C1W, K1W, C2M 2009 Club not awarded. Race organizers and athletes did not identifying which club boats compete for ... 2010 BCE - Club Trophy is M.I.A... Do you have the club trophy?
League of Northwest Whitewater Racers Missouri Whitewater Association If your whitewater club competes in the Slalom Nationals please send us your website link!
The Wildest Club in Whitewater by Mike McCormick, 1989
The most unusual award in whitewater racing was born because Washington, DC area paddler Ron Lugbill wanted to get people psyched up. He envisioned a trophy so outrageous that athletes would do anything to win it for their club. When he pitched his idea to fellow Housatonic Area Canoe and Kayak Squad (H.A.C.K.S.) members in the summer of 1988, Sean McCarthy, of South Egremont, Massachusetts, became inspired.
"Ron talked about it as the 'King of Clubs Trophy,' like in a deck of cards," recalled Sean, " but I thought of Fred Flintstone."
Sean went to work. He found an uprooted pine and cut a chunk of the gnarly part of the root line.
"I roughed it out with a hatchet and went crazy with a grinder to get the basic shape. I had some oak strips which I shaped with a chisel and stuck in the end to resemble bones or thorns." Next he wound a leather thong around the handle and carved a base for it.
The finished piece is a fierce wooden club which would draw a grunt of approval from any caveman. It is called - what else - The Club Trophy.
Each year at the National Whitewater Slalom Championships, The Club Trophy is the focus of heated inter-club competition. Despite strong challenges from the Nantahala Racing Club and H.A.C.K.S., the Canoe Cruisers Association has claimed the unique award two years in a row. The trophy is awarded by a system which gives points to each club's top placing boats in C1, C1W, C2, C2M, K1 and K1W classes. In each class the top finisher wins three points, second place is worth two points and third is one point. The club with the highest point total wins.
On behalf of the whitewater slalom community, I'd like to commend Sean for recognizing that there's a little barbarian in all of us.
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