Medals for MAGSROW at first regatta of 2023
Rowing for gold: winners of the ‘women’s club coxless pair oars’ Olivia Tattersfield and Lily Curnow with senior girls coach India Mattocks. Photo credit: Riaan Schmulian.
A gold-medal winning row in the ‘women’s club coxless pair oars’ was one of four medal finishes for MAGS at the North Island Rowing Championships.
Lily Curnow and Olivia Tattersfield held the lead throughout the 2km race at Lake Karapiro, winning the A Final in a time of 7:46.84 ahead of a strong field including Hamilton Rowing Club in second and Petone Rowing Club in third.
This year’s North Island Rowing Championships attracted more than 2060 competitors from 39 clubs and 54 secondary schools across New Zealand.
In the ‘men’s club coxed four’ A Final the MAGSROW crew won silver, with Luke Sanders, Max Jarvie, Fraser MacGillivray, Ethan Green and cox Hamish Toogood.
MAGS rowers also put in medal-winning performances in the ‘men’s club coxless pair oars’ with Fraser MacGillivray and Ethan Green finishing third to take home bronze in the A Final, and Lily Curnow, Olivia Tattersfield, Ruby Schmulian, Nicole Nagaratnam and cox Guy Pinfold winning bronze in the A Final of the ‘women’s club coxed four’.
Overall MAGSROW crews - rowing as West End Rowing Club (WERC) - qualified for 19 finals at the regatta, including 12 A Finals.
“It was a strong start to the year and it was great to see our rowers’ hard work and training paying off,” says James O’Sullivan, MAGSROW Assistant Director of Rowing. “It is always exciting to see our crews make the podium, and it was a real positive to see some strong finishes for the novice rowers in the squad in their first major national regatta.”
James, who previously competed with and coached the Blackrock College Rowing team and spent a year with Rowing Ireland as a Development Coach, is part of a strong MAGSROW coaching team taking over the squad from former Director of Rowing Alice Denyer.
MAGSROW will be running “Learn to row” sessions in Term 2 for students looking to join the squad. We’ll share more information here soon.