Ergathon 2018

On Friday the 26 from 9am all the way until 9am the following morning, the MGC rowers were smashing out another year’s ergathon. The ergathon is MGC rowing’s most profitable fundraiser and what is it? During the ergathon, we take it in turns to row for 20mins on the rowing machines all throughout the night and get sponsored for each km that we row. This year we rowed over two million metres woooo! Every single girl that participated this year absolutely smashed it and it was great to see this year’s pick of rowers getting behind each other and cheering each other on at unbearable times of the night and early morning, this gave a fantastic indication of the season to come. Another important aspect of the ergathon is the election of the captain of boats. Six of the sixteen senior senior girls gave beautiful speeches and a huge thankyou to those girls. The results of the voting were revealed at 10pm and we are proud to announce that we, Molly Sharrock and Polly-Jane Decker and Hayley Turnbul as vice are the COBs for the 2018/19 season. We’d like to say a huge thankyou to everyone that made the ergathon possible: firstly, to the amazing team of parents who made a delicious Bolognese pasta for dinner and bacon and eggs in the morning, to all the coaches who came and cheered us on at 2am (even though they were eating maccas and drinking redbull and iced coffee right in front of us). And of course, A huge thanks to Steph Burgess (head coach) and Andrew Beck (rowing coordinator) who this would not be possible without.

- Molly Sharrock, Polly-Jane Decker and Hayley Turnbull