About

About the Delta Deas Rowing Club

The first rowing event on the Deas Slough was a BC Championship held May 10 and 11, 1986. The event was a resounding success. As a result, retired rowing Olympians Lyle Gatley, Joy Fera, and Bill McKerlich worked with other eager volunteers to form a Society; the Delta Deas Rowing Club was incorporated on December 3, 1986.
Coaches Murray Johnson and Lyle Gatley prepared students for the 1987 B.C. Summer Games hosted by Delta Deas Rowing Club. West Shore terminals provided a dock for that event.
The following year, the GVRD gave approval for DDRC to operate in Deas Park. With the help of a "Go B.C." grant and donations from the Delta Credit Union and Delta Cablevision, ground breaking for the Boathouse took place in March 1988.
South Delta Secondary School students from Mr. Gatley’s Building Construction class, along with others, worked for many months on the project, completing it in time to host the B.C. Youth Championships in 1989.

In 1995 the DDRC members expanded the dock to reduce the impact on the foreshore and to meet the growing needs of the rowing club and the community. Subsequently, DDRC completed construction of a 1500 square foot boat-shed for external storage of shells, and dressed up the rowing site by placing paving stones on the water-side of the boathouse and inside the gated compound.
The summer of 2015 saw us once again working on the dock. The GVRD supplied lumber with which we capped the dock, hoping for a bit more life out of the girl while we await confirmed plans for its replacement.
DDRC has hosted an annual High School Regatta for the past 26 years, and a Masters regatta for the past 18 years.

Our Vision:
"A community-integrated rowing club focused on meeting the diverse needs of that community through Rowing Canada Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) framework."

Deas Slough and Deas Island Regional Park – a water sport centre
Delta Deas Rowing Club – primary delivery vehicle
Inclusiveness
- All ages, school age to seniors
- Playground to podium
- All abilities, elite to disabled
- Extension of health and physical well being
Partnerships with
- Delta Parks and Recreation
- Metro Vancouver Regional Parks
- Delta/Surrey service organizations
- Delta/Surrey businesses
- Rowing BC and Rowing Canada
High School Program
- Learn to Row programs
- Upgrade competitiveness
- Increase participation – inclusiveness
- Excellence in coaching
- Personal development
- Fun
- Team building and leadership
- Creating relationships

Adult Program
- Learn to Row Programs
- Recreational Programs
- Competitive Programs
- Excellence in coaching
- Inclusiveness
- Participation
- Team building and leadership
- Creating relationships
- Service to the community
Adaptive Rowing Program
- Recreational Program
- Inclusiveness
- Participation
- Creating relationships
- Service to the community

Club staff, members, parents, volunteers and coaches are dedicated to help participants, and each other, realize their dreams and potential in a positive, constructive environment.

Contact Us:

Location: [Google Map]
6090 Deas Island Road
Deas Island Park
Delta, B.C.

Mailing address:
Delta Deas Rowing Club
P.O. Box 33007
11198 84th Street
Delta, BC V4C 8E6

Telephone: 604 946 3074
Email: deltadeas@gmail.com

Check us out on:

@deltadeasrowing

@DeltaDeasAdaptiveRowingProgram