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Buffalo Regatta - Gold Medals for our Girls

February 17, 2016 | Girls’ College

St Stithians Girls’ College make Rowing history by winning the first ever  JNR WOMENS 1ST 8+  Sweep Oar event at the 109th Buffalo Regatta in the Eastern Cape.

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Cox: Shannon Etter, Stroke seat: Tegan Korevaar, Jennavieve Williams, Robyn Schaap, Madison Crews, Kate Pringle, Nicole Masson, Saskia Howie, Bethany Williamson.

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(L-R – back row) Bethany Williamson, Kate Pringle, Shannon Etter, Nicole Masson, Robyn Schaap, Madison Crews  

(L-R – front row) Tegan Korevaar, Saskia Howie, Jennavieve Williams

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(L-R – back row)  Madison Crews, Jennavieve Williams, Kate Pringle, Nicole Masson, Saskia Howie, Robyn Schaap, Bethany Williamson, Coach U16 Imogen Mackie.

(L-R – front row) MIC Rowing James Buchanan, Tegan Korevaar, Shannon Etter

The final results of this race were as follows:

Rowing Race results

  • 1st St Stithians with a 15.47s lead
  • 2nd St Mary’s
  • 3rd Holy Rosary
  • 4th Clarendon
  • 5th PGRC – Peninsula Girls’ Rowing Club

Other news about Buffalo and Selbourne Sprints

What an exciting few days! The Buffalo Regatta and Selbourne Sprints is a roller coaster of ups and downs, between heats and finals.  Our rowers had the challenges of wind, waves and tides. A highlight – and the best achievement of the week-end was the GOLD medal for the JW 1ST 8+. The boat had a combination of Open and U16 rowers. The girls had very little practice in rowing stroke in the eight, but came out looking together and raced to a convincing win over the other crews. 

For the U16’s ,a major achievement was that from the heats they all qualified for finals in both regatta’s in all races – Skulls, Doubles and the Quad. There were some nail-biting races in the heats with great races, but their best final results were: 

  • Skulls - Madison Crews, Kate Pringle and Katie Tyndall- Biscoe raced – In the Selbourne Sprint – Madison Crews came 2nd 
  • Doubles - Jennavieve Williams and Bethany Williamson placed 3rd in the Buffalo Regatta 
  • Quad – Madison Crews (stroke), Jennavieve Williams (3), Kate Pringle (2) Bethany Williamson (bow), Katie Tyndale-Biscoe (Cox) - 2nd in the Buffalo Regatta.