Excellent results achieved at the North Island and Maadi Cup Rowing Regattas

Posted on April 20, 2023

The Macleans College Rowing club have finished their season with excellent results at the North Island Secondary Schools Championships and Maadi Cup Regatta.

North Island Secondary Schools Championships

Held from 10-12 March, with 1,780 competitors from 79 schools, Macleans College rowers trained hard for this regatta. Their hard work was rewarded with some impressive results.

Boys A finals

  • U18 double sculls – 7th Daniel Taylor (Mansfield House), Jeandre Van Gruening (Mansfield)
  • U18 quad coxed sculls – 6th Daniel Taylor, Jeandre van Gruening, Logan Turrall (Te Kanawa), James Dimock (Te Kanawa), Isabella Chen (Hillary)
  • U17 single sculls – 4th Logan Turrall
  • U17 double sculls - 2nd (silver medal) Logan Turrall, James Dimock
  • U16 single sculls – 7th Nathan Strachan (Rutherford)
  • U15 double sculls – 3rd (bronze medal) Ben High (Hillary), Declan Mclean (Te Kanawa)
  • U18 novice double sculls – 3rd (bronze medal) Nathan Strachan, Gus Thompson (Upham)

Boys B finals

  • U17 single sculls – 8th Harrison Reeve (Kupe)
  • U17 double sculls – 4th Harrison Reeve, Nathan Strachan
  • U18 novice coxed quad sculls – 3rd Ben High, Declan Mclean, Yousef Al Shadiefat (Kupe), Ratan Singh (Snell), Chloe Woodward (Mansfield)

Girls A finals

  • U17 single sculls – 8th Tayla Malcomson (Upham)
  • U18 novice coxed four – 5th Yolandi van Rooyen (Snell), Caitlin Sutherland (Rutherford), Rhianna Burt (Snell), Fiona Ling (Rutherford), Cerys O’Loughlin (Upham)

Girls B finals

  • U15 double sculls – 6th Lucy Kay (Snell), Phoebe Kerr (Hillary)

Girls C finals

  • U18 novice double sculls – 2nd Yolandi van Rooyen, Caitlin Sutherland
  • U18 novice double sculls – 6th Rhianna Burt, Lakshya Narooka (Hillary)
  • U18 novice coxed quad sculls – 1st Yolandi van Rooyen, Caitlin Sutherland, Rhianna Burt, Lakshya Narooka, Cerys O’Loughlin
  • U18 novice coxed sculls – 7th Lucy Kay, Phoebe Kerr, Grace Crowe (Rutherford), Fiona Ling, Sophie Gordon (Snell)

Maadi Cup Regatta

Held from 27 March – 1 April at Lake Karapiro, the Maadi Cup Regatta is the New Zealand’s national schools regatta. This is one of the biggest school regattas in the southern hemisphere with over 2,000 competitors from 113 New Zealand schools. The standard of competition is very high.

The weather conditions were fine all week and Macleans College achieved some outstanding results with many crews placing in the top eight crews in New Zealand.

A Finals

  • U18 double sculls – 8th Daniel Taylor, Jeandre van Greuning
  • U18 quad coxed sculls – 6th Daniel Taylor, Jeandre van Greuning, Logan Turrall, James Dimock, Isabella Chen
  • U17 single sculls – 5th Logan Turrall
  • U17 double sculls - 5th Logan Turrall, James Dimock
  • U15 double sculls – 6th Ben High, Declan Mclean

B Finals

  • U18 novice double – 1st Nathan Strachan, Gus Thompson
  • U18 single sculls – 5th Tayla Malcolmson
  • U18 novice coxed four – 5th Yolandi van Rooyen, Caitlin Sutherland, Rhianna Burt, Fiona Ling, Cerys O’Loughlin

C Finals

  • U17 single sculls – 5th Tayla Malcomson