Rowing

October Camps Wrap-up

In the recent school holidays, the Pymble Rowing Team attended the first October Rowing camps. Well done to all Pymble rowers completing the camp – a challenging week that all students handled well and got a lot out of. It was fantastic to see the crew bonding, camaraderie and sisterhood developing during the camp, including every student improving their rowing skills and physical fitness.

The Seniors and Inters travelled to Vision Valley to train on Berowra Creek for four and three days, respectively. In between some excellent training on the untapped pristine waters, the team bonded over the camp fire, cruised down water slides and ‘stacked some crates’!

On Wednesday 23 October, members of the Intermediate Squad (who are currently Vision Valley pioneers), extended their adventure to the pristine waters of Berowra Creek, completing an early-morning row in single sculls with Mr Schmidt and Mr Gray. The pioneers were also surprised to see Mr Gray the evening before at dinner! Well done to all and we will see you next week.

Junior and Learn-to-Row (LTR) Squads all travelled to the boatshed for day camp held over two days and were treated to some glassy water on Iron Cove. The extended time available allowed for in-depth technical progression, beam jump sessions and team bonding opportunities. Across both squads, huge kilometres were covered and training now sets up all teams very well for a successful Term 4. Well done to all Pymble rowers!

NSW High Performance Pathway Time Trial

Congratulations to Senior rowers, Summer Phillips (Year 10), Mika Naito (Current 2024 Year 11, 2025 Year 12), Millie Cullinane (Year 10) and Isabella Stalley (Current 2024 Year 11, 2025 Year 12) who, after 4 days of rowing camp, travelled to Nepean River (aka speed county) to race a 5km time trial against some of the best athletes in the state. The group competed in the Womens U19 single scull category, performing well. A special mention to Summer Philips coming in 5th out of 33 competitors that had entered in the category.

Australian Rowing Record Broken

Congratulations to Kelly Clifton (Year 9) who started the competition season early on Friday 25 October, setting two Australian Rowing Erg Records! Kelly challenged the 10,000m record first, setting a time of 45 minutes and 46.7 seconds, this is holding a split of 2:17.3. Kelly then challenged the 6000m, setting a record of 26 minutes and 38.4 seconds, this is holding a split of 2:13.2. Kelly’s courage, determination, planning and goal setting to take on this challenge and ultimately set these records is exciting to see – well done Kelly!