St Paul’s Collegiate School’s Rowing Club seeks to build and support high quality programmes that promote student access to rowing, excellence in rowing, and use rowing as a means to foster physical activity, health, leadership and team building.
To support this objective, the club engages professional rowing coaches and rowing-experienced international gap students for each group – senior boys, senior girls and novice.
Attracting 70-80 students per year, the sport has a coaching team that offer individual and small-group training, both on and off the water.
Learn to Row Programme
The school operates a Learn to Row programme in Term 1 every year as a summer sport option. This programme allows beginners to learn the basics of the rowing technique through land-based training on ergs, as well as the opportunity to get on the water in the larger boats. This is ideal for any year level to try as their summer sport.
Schedule
Students train on the Waikato River from the club’s private boat shed and from St Paul’s fitness facilities, which boast state-of-the-art equipment for strength and endurance training. There are additional rowing camps held throughout the season.
Competition
The Club has a range of Hudson, Laszlo, Empacher and Wintech boats in eights, fours, doubles and singles.
Over the rowing season, St Paul’s rowers compete in as many as eight regattas, including:
- Te Awamutu Regatta
- Karapiro Memorial Regatta
- KRI Club Regatta
- Christmas Regatta
- North Island Club Regatta
- Junior Regatta
- North Island Secondary Schools Championships (NISS)
- New Zealand Secondary Schools Championship (Maadi)
Click here to see regatta results.
National Success
- 2022 – Riley Wills, winner of U18 single scull
- 2022 – Charlize Tutbury, New Zealand Junior Squad
- 2021 – Matthew Waddell, New Zealand Junior squad
- 2021 – Riley Wills, winner of U17 single scull
- 2019 – Alison Mills, New Zealand Juniors
- 2018 – Grace Watson, New Zealand Juniors, bronze medal at Worlds (now under-23 team)
- 2017 – Grace Watson and Kate Littlejohn, NZ Juniors
- 2003 – St Paul’s winners of Maadi Cup
- 2002 – St Paul’s winners of Maadi Cup
- 2022 – winners of the BU18 double sculls
- 2022 – winners of the BU18 quadruple sculls
- 2023 – winners of the BU17 pairs
- 2024 – winners of the BU16 quadruple sculls
- 2024 – winners of the BU16 double sculls
Levies
The rowing programme costs $3,100 for the season. This fee covers camps, transport, coaching, and entry to regattas. Uniforms are additional. Selected crews for Maadi Cup incur an additional fee. There are no fees for Learn to Row.
The club does not have any physical requirements for being a member, however, a high level of commitment and dedication is required. Students will be advised to choose another sport if they do not meet these expectations.
Contact
Rachel Pollock – Director of Rowing
