The Sri Ramachandra Water Sports Centre (SWSC) is Asia’s first floodlit rowing course. Located within the campus of Sri Ramachandra University, adjacent to the Sri Ramachandra Centre for Sports Science facility, SWSC features a 650m man-made lake that serves as an ideal venue for various water sports. It is equipped with a large boathouse and a full fleet of new fibreglass racing crafts. The water body is among the cleanest in Chennai, with artificially created fresh water that supports aquatic life.
SWSC is designed to train junior athletes, assess professional rowers, and host Sprint and Dash Rowing events. It is one of the newest rowing courses in India, utilizing clean, recycled, and treated wastewater as its source. The full lighting of the race track allows for 24×7 rowing activities, making it a unique facility.
Equipped with state-of-the-art amenities, SWSC actively promotes water sports such as Rowing, Kayaking, and Canoeing. The vision is to enable Indian rowers to achieve the pinnacle of success, aiming for an Olympic medal by 2024.
The rowing centre operates as a unit of Sri Ramachandra Centre for Sports Science (SRCSS). Rowers benefit from SWSC’s world-class facilities combined with SRCSS’s sports science expertise for enhanced performance.
SWSC is affiliated with the Rowing Federation of India (RFI) and the Tamil Nadu Amateur Rowing Association (TARA).
SWSC has hosted and conducted several prestigious national rowing competitions, including:
Top Indian rowers, including Olympic athletes such as Sawarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, and Dushyant Chauhan, have trained at SWSC.
In addition to its in-house scientific facilities, SWSC’s association with BAT Logic, Australia has further enhanced the scientific assessment and performance evaluation of rowers.
All the coaching programs will be managed by National Cricket Academy (NCA) qualified coaches. Participants will get the opportunities to play matches and also be trained in essential Life Skills in the field of Communication, Leadership, Decision Making, Creative Thinking, Interpersonal Relationship, Emotional Maturity, Time Management etc.
Trucoach has many facilities including a High Performance Centre (HPC), a sports cafeteria, a bio-mechanical lab, one of the five in the world, 5 indoor cricket nets, 120 metre indoor synthetic running track, 25 metre Olympic Standard Swimming Pool and an outdoor net facility with eight turf pitches & one concrete pitch with astro-turf. The infrastructure as vouched for by our players are truly world-class. Need we say more?
Indian Senior National Rowing coach Gioga Nicolaeat SRCSS watching 3D rowing biomechanics testing with BATLogic rowing foot pressure analysis
