Rowing Results
Assumption Convent Regatta (U14 & U15 only)
Saturday 18 February 2017
Sculls and Doubles cancelled due to wind.
U14 Results
B Octuple – Bronze
A Octuple – Silver
A Quad – Bronze
U15 Results
B Quad – Gold
B Octuple – Gold
A Quad – Bronze
A Octuple – Silver
Rowing Results
Buffalo and Selborne Sprint Regattas
The u16 and u19 Rowing Squads toured to East London last week to take part in two regattas – The 130th Buffalo Grand Challenge Regatta, and the Selborne Sprints Regatta. Both of these regattas are highly competitive as all clubs from Gauteng, Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape Compete. Heats are raced with only the top 6 crews making finals.
The Selborne Sprints regatta is raced over 500m and comprises heats and finals on the same day. Out of 17 boats entered, Jeppe qualified 7 into A finals. Notable final results are as follows:
| u16 Quad | 4th |
| u16 Single | 4th |
| u16 Four | 2nd |
| 2nd Eight | 4th |
| 1st Four | Scratched due to illness |
| 1st Pair | 5th |
| 1st Eight | 6th |
The Buffalo Regatta is the priority regatta for the weekend. Raced over 2000m with heats on Thursday and finals on Saturday. Out of 16 boats, Jeppe qualified 10 for A finals. Notably, the First Pair and First Four were the fastest qualifiers in their divisions. Unfortunately some finals were cancelled due to lightning.
Final results as follows:
| u16 Single | 6th |
| u16 Four | Suffered a breakage during the race |
| u16 Quad | 4th |
| u16 Eight | No Race, Lightning. |
| 2nd Double | 5th |
| 2nd Four | 4th |
| 2nd Eight | 5th |
| 1st Pair | 1st |
| 1st Four | Final cancelled due to lightning, awarded 1st place as fastest qualifiers |
| 1st Eight | No Race, Lightning. |