News from the Rowing Sheds

Head of the River

A huge congratulations to all SMC Rowers for their efforts last Saturday at the annual Head of the River Regatta held at Lake Barrington. This Regatta is effectively the grand final of the season, and it comes with strict limits on how many crews can be entered in each event. 

There were many podium finishes as well, with a summary of key A-Finals results below: 

Year 10 Single:

Charlotte Brimfield – Final 2nd place 

Year 9 Double:

Matilda Cunningham, Evie Bresnehan – Final 2nd place 

Year 7 Double:

Josie Tomms, Varvara Iusupova – Final 2nd place

Senior Girl Single:

Lucy Pinelli – Final 4th place

Year 10 Four:

Imogen Richardson, Mia Brooks, Charlotte Brimfield, Rudy Robinson, Lucy Pinelli (Cox) – Final 3rd place

Senior Girl Quad:

Ruby Wighton, Imogen Croall, Lucinda Washington, Grace Coad, Maggie Parker (Cox) – Final 4th place

Year 8 Single:

Zoe Ratcliffe – Final 3rd place

Year 10 Quad:

Imogen Richardson, Chloe Gray, Rudy Robinson, Mia Brooks, Lucy Pinelli (Cox) – Final 2nd place

Year 8 Double:

Allegra Cole, Lucy Midson – Final 1st place

Year 9 Quad:

Annaliese Carter, Bella Child, Matilda Cunningham, Evie Bresnehan, Ruby Langdale (Cox) – Final 3rd place

Senior Girl Double:

Lucy Pinelli, Lucinda Washington – Final 3rd place 

Year 8 Quad:

Allegra Cole, Fox McGregor, Lucy Midson, Zoe Ratcliffe, Lucy Pinelli (Cox) – Final 2nd place

Year 9 Single:

Matilda Cunningham – Final 2nd place

Year 10 Double:

Charlotte Brimfield, Mia Brooks – Final 3rd place 

Points are accumulated for schools through the Finals races. At the conclusion of the racing, St Mary’s was announced the winners of the Junior shield. A fantastic achievement and just rewards for the efforts of rowers, coaches and families from throughout the season.

Australian Rowing Championships – The Nationals

With many very pleasing results from the last two regatta, we wish some of our Senior Rowers all the best as they compete at the Nationals next week, once again being held at Lake Barrington. Representing St Mary’s will be:

Evie Bresnehan (Year 9)                                                    

Charlotte Brimfield (Year 10)

Mia Brooks (Year 10)                                                            

Molly Brown (Year 11)

Grace Coad (Year 11)                                                          

Imogen Croall (Year 11)

Matilda Cunningham (Year 9)                                        

Izzy Godfrey – Cox (Year 7)

Chloe Gray (Year 10)                                                            

Lucy Pinelli (Year 11)

Imogen Richardson (Year 10)                                         

Ruby Robinson (Year 10)

Imogen Stewart (Year 11)                                                  

Sarah Thomas (Year 12)

Lucinda Washington (Year 11)

You can keep track of our rowers’ progress from Monday morning via the regatta website. There is also usually a livestream once the regatta gets underway.

Try Rowing

Many families have asked how their child can get involved in rowing. I’m organising a Try Rowing Day ahead of the Term 1 school holidays, and I’ll be sharing more details soon. Keep an eye out for updates.

Winter training

Winter training will resume in Term 2, with full details to be shared after Nationals.