Damascus College Rowing

This past weekend the Senior Boys and Girls competed in the Melbourne Head Regatta and the Junior Girls competed at the RV Schoolgirls Loreto Regatta, it was a beautiful sunny day with perfect water for the Damascus College Rowers to strut their stuff!

The Senior crews smashed out their 3.5 km time trial races, most rowers doing two races and overall rowing more then 15km (if you include the row to the start line). The senior boys did a great job in both their quad scull and sweep four races, coming 14^th in the quad scull race and coming a solid 5^th position in the sweep four. The senior girls did an exceptional job in both division 1 and 2, the division 2 girls coming 7^th in their quad scull race and 6^th in their sweep four race. Our division 1 girls did an astonishing job, coming 12^th in their quad scull race and 5^th in the sweep four. It was an overall great day out with plenty of laughs and memorable moments coming from the day.

The Junior girls had their first ever regatta on Saturday down at the Barwon River in Geelong with it being an all-round great first experience of what to expect for the upcoming season and on how regattas work. The girls all had heaps of fun and had plenty of good laughs and memories that came from the regatta.

All junior crews did an amazing job with our division 1,2,3 and 4 girls all coming 3^rd in their heats! Then in their finals, division 1 and 3 placed first and division 2 and 4 coming second. A big highlight od the day was the division 1 crew placing the second fastest time of the day for all the Year 8 girls crews! Overall, the Junior Girls Squad did a spectacular job on completing their first regatta with many to come and we as a Damascus community are immensely proud of all their hard work.

It's great to see that all the hard work that everyone is doing is paying off with some good results from the weekend! Go DC!!!

Charley Gartlan & Hunter Bennett

Rowing Captains