This past weekend the RBHS Rowing Club competed in the Buffalo and Selborne Sprints regatta, hosted on the Buffalo River in East London. The two Regattas are raced over three days where boys race against the top schools and clubs in the country.while navigating tricky winds and tides which add to the intensity of the racing. U15 Octuple- 4th U16 Pair- 6th Quad- 5th Four- 3rd and 6th Eight- 6th Open Pair- 6th 2nd double 6th 1st quad 5th 1st four- 4th 1st 8+ 4th Selborne Sprints Results: U15 Octuple- 5th Quad- 5th U16 Scull – 4th Four- 4th and […]
Western Cape Champs at Zeekoevlei
Western Cape Champs at Zeekoevlei An incredible showing for Rondebosch Rowing at Western Cape Champs. We safely held onto our title of strongest Coastal Rowing Team. Open Medal results: U19 2 × Ford gold 🏅U19 2x – Wyatt silver 🥈U19 2 – Duckitt gold 🏅U19 4×+ – Ford gold 🏅U19 4+ – Ellis gold 🏅U19 4+ – Duckit silver 🥈U19 8+ – Duckitt gold 🏅U19 1x – Ford silver 🥈 U16 results: U16 8+ Kerschbaumer silver 🥈U16 4+ Kerschbaumer silver 🥈U16 1× Dellbridge silver 🥈 U15 results: U15 8x Booysen gold 🏅U15 4x Booysen gold 🏅U15 2x Surtees gold 🏅U15 1x Booysen silver 🥈 Well done […]
Boat race result
In December of 2024 the Rondebosch 1st 8 (the premier boat class and 1stbteam) competed at the annual Schools Boat Race. An event where the 1st teams from all rowing schools compete in a time trial to be the fastest down a 5km tidal river with twists and turns. The tides make the race even more interesting as incoming tide will slow the boats speed down while using the out going can speed you up. Shallow waters could mean getting beached on a sand bank so there is a lot of responsibility on the coxswaine to avoid rocks, bends and the […]
Rondebosch Boys’ rowers selected for world champs
Rondebosch Boys’ matriculant Ryan Dellbridge and coach Junaid Jacobs have been selected to represent South Africa, in Canada next month. The rowers will compete against the world’s best at the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course, in Ontario. After a three-month selection process, 23 athletes -12 girls and 11 boys – were selected for a variety of events. Ryan, along with his rowing partner, Robert Hirschson (SACS matriculant), were selected to row in the under-19 junior men’s double race, coached by Jacobs. They were the only two Western Cape rowers to be selected.
End of 2023 – 2024 Rowing Season
We have come to the end of a sensational 2023- 2024 Rowing season. We have watched our boys from the sidelines practice and compete while pushing their physical and emotional abilities to their limits. Like every other season, they learnt to deal with stress, expectations, emotions, success, and failure on a level that helped them grow into mature young men. It is amazing to see the changes in our boys from the beginning to the end of each season. Farewell We would like to say farewell to the Senior Opens boys and parents. These boys now get a break from […]