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NEMATO ROWING CLUB
year by year 2017
Nemato Rowing Club ergo trials
2000m ergo trials today. Thando pulled a new under 19 club best at 7:08.
Nemato Rowing Club new blades
The new blades for our rowing club arrived. Many thanks to Lottery for the donation!!!
Knysna Regatta (14-15 October)
Our quad, with Simthembile Bari, Akhona Quma, Thando Ngoqo and Name Withheld won the Under 19 A long distance heads race in Knysna. Fantastic achievement! Also congratulations to Sheldon with his first victory as coach, what a beauty, this first one!
Sheldon our new coach
Old Nemato rower Sheldon Nelson is our new rowing coach. It's part of a rowing development project by St Andrew's College in Grahamstown. They employ Sheldon and assist in training him and our rowers.
Leander rower visiting Nemato (9-10 April)
Emily Ashford from Leander Club, in Henley-on-Thames, England, visited us. She rowed on our Kowie River and visited us in the township and watched our handball players, fencers and gymnasts in action. She donated Nemato a picture of the 2016 British Olympic rowers, signed by all the Leander Olympians, and the original Leander flag that has been on the roof of the Leander's clubhouse for many years.
Eight as new with Radley help
Max Hobhouse and James Murrell of Radley College Boat Club in England did the long row from Radley to London to raise money to refurbish the Nemato eight. The boat is 12 years old and needed major maintenance and repair. The high costs were out of reach for us. It's great to have the boat back in a state which is as good as new!
SA Champs (2-5 March)
Five Nemato rowers competed at the South African Championships in Gauteng. We visited Constitution Hill, where the Constitutional Court is built in the old apartheid prison. Unfortunately there is still apartheid in rowing. At the national championships, our rowers are, as members of a club, not welcome in the schools races, although our rowers are the same age and also at school. We won silver and gold medals, but only against a handful of club teams.
Buffalo Regatta (9-11 February)
We went to East London for the Buffalo Regatta, the only major national competition where clubs, schools and universities compete at equal level. With only the best teams from around the country competing, reaching finals was the highest we achieved. No medals this time.
Settlers Sprint Regatta (28 January)
No luck at the competition in Grahamstown. We couldn't get the wheels of the boat trailer sorted out on time so we were at the competition without our boats. Only for our quad we managed to borrow a boat, but we were late at the start and disqualified.
