In the last newsletter, we reported on the rower's success at the South Island Secondary Schools. This proved to be no one trick pony, with Maadi Cup (NZ Secondary Schools) two weeks later being our most successful in history.

Weather delays and compacted racing on Saturday, lead to some disappointments in individual races but on the whole, the squad performed to a high standard and produced our largest medal haul ever, with 9 medals across all age groups.

GOLD

U17 4+ James Glover, Aiken Brown, Cameron Long, Angus Templeton & Tim Heritage
U15 4x+ Charlie Baker, Harry Medlicott, George Pirie, William Bently & Alex Taylor
U15 2x  Charlie Baker, Harry Medlicott

SILVER 

U18 4+ Matt White, Will Gilbert, Tom Woelders, Jack Chapman & Henry Shaw
U18 2-  Matt White, Will Gilbert
U17 8+ James Glover, Ben Lissaman, Cameron Long, Aiken Brown,  Cameron Henderson, Tom Fraser, Ed McAlister, Angus Templeton & Tim Heritage
U16 4x+ Angus Lill, Liam Behrnes, Sam Weild,  Liam Bunting & Caleb Fitzsimmons
U15 8×+ Charlie Baker, Harry Medlicott, George Pirie, William Bently, Archer Pascoe, Ben Zino, William Lindsay, Max McKeich & Tim Heritage

BRONZE

U18 8+ Matt White, Will Gilbert, Jack Chapman, Tom Woelders, Cameron Henderson, Tom Fraser, Jack Sutton, Ben Lissaman & Henry Shaw

With 9 medals CBHS came out as the third top school in the country behind St Peter's (Cambridge) and Hamilton Boys' High School on the points table. This made us the top South Island Rowing School closely followed by Christ's College.

We also have the most representative trialists named post Maadi with four boys gaining New Zealand trials and 8 with South Island trials.

NZ Junior Trialists:

Matt White, Will Gilbert, Tom Woelders, Jack Chapman

South Island Trialists:

Angus Templeton, Cameron Long, Cameron Henderson, James Glover, Ben Brown, Tom Fraser, Lachlan Hill, Tim Heritage

In the end, the following boys made representative teams:

South Island U18 Team: James Glover, Angus Templeton, Cameron Long – these students travelled to Lake Karapiro in the 1st week of the school holidays to compete against the North Island U18 team. Winning the overall points trophy.

New Zealand Junior Men: Will Gilbert – Selected to represent NZ in the NZ Junior men’s coxless four. Will is joined by three boys from Hamilton Boys' High School. He will relocate to Cambridge in June and train at the national high performance centre alongside our national Olympians for 2 months before heading off to Racice (Prague) in the Czech Republic to contest the world championships. Will’s is joined by CBHS rowing coach, Logan Keys who has also been picked to coach the crew.

CBHS ROWING WOULD LIKE TO THANKS OUR SPONSORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT THIS SEASON

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