Rowing Report

First Year 8 Quad

Last weekend saw a very special moment for one of our younger crews. The Year 8 First quad of Sam Chan, Ben Gordon, Edward McDonald, Oli Mott and Harry Leahy made the trip to the Olympic rowing course to compete in the annual NSW schoolboy “Head of the River”. 

It was a day of firsts for this crew. It was their first trip to SIRC to compete, it was the first day they had to really contend with the heat of Penrith, the first time they had to race a heat and then back up for a final. Luckily for us it continued to be a day of firsts, with the crew taking our the Year 8 coxed quad First division. The young Shore crew showed great speed to take out the first position in the heat and sent a very strong message to their rivals for the final. In the final, as they had done just two hours previously, the crew showed brilliant start speed to establish a margin by the halfway point, a margin they were not going to surrender. A big thank you must go to the great work that Mr B Stacy, Ms A Phillips and Declan Glendinning did with this crew through the season.

Mr G Bates
MIC Rowing