News from the Rowing Sheds

Australian Rowing Championships – The Nationals

Our 15 representatives did an amazing job representing SMC at the Australian Rowing Championships (the Nationals) last week. Our rowers, and the organisers, were challenged not only with some very strong competition but also a power outage along with some of Tassie’s best weather, including wind, rain and cold.

Heats started early on Monday morning and continued during the day for most of our rowers. Special congratulations to Sarah Thomas and Imogen Stewart, who finished on the podium in third place with the bronze medal in the School Girls Double event. An amazing achievement given the event started with 32 entries from around the country.

Other notable achievements:

U17 Single – Matilda Cunningham 

Tilly came 5th in her heat, which meant she had a second row in the repechage. Here, she placed 4th, which was an amazing achievement, and she recorded a time that would have qualified her for the semi-final in three of the other races. 

U17 Double

Evie Bresnehan and Matilda Cunningham – 4th in repechage

Mia Brooks and Charlotte Brimfield – 4th in repechage

U17 School Girl coxed Quad

Chloe Gray, Imogen Richardson, Ruby Robinson and Mia Brooks with Izzy Godfrey (cox), finishing 7th in the B Final.

School Girl Double

Imogen Stewart and Sarah Thomas – 3rd place in the A Final and Bronze medallists

Evie Bresnehan and Tilly Cunningham (substitute Charlotte Brimfield) – 6th place in the B Final

Lucy Pinelli and Lucinda Washington (substitute Grace Coad) – 4th place in the C Final

Sarah Thomas 

4th place in the U19 Quad

Imogen Stewart

4th place in the U23 Light Weight Double

4th place in the U19 Quad

3rd place in the Open Women’s Quad

2nd place in the Interstate Light Weight Quad

Kate Oliver (Alumna, Class of 2020) 

1st place in the B Final of the Open Women’s Single

1st place in the Open Women’s Quad Sprint

2nd place in the Interstate Light Weight Quad

3rd place in the Open Light Weight Quad

8th place in the Open Women’s Double

Try Rowing

We are offering an opportunity for SMC Senior School students to join our highly successful rowing program. To facilitate this, a Try Rowing session will be held on Sunday 12 April. Further details can be found in the form link here.

Please complete the form by Thursday 9 April.

If your daughter would like to join the program, she will then be able to participate in the Winter training program offered to all our rowers during Terms 2 and 3.

Winter training

Winter Training will start up again next term. Details are being finalised and will be available soon.