\u201cThey went into North Islands [regatta] more tired than they have ever been in my time at the club,\u201d Dickinson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey performed really, really well. Some of the performances were just unreal, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dickinson said the girls\u2019 under-16, under-17 and under-18 coxed quad crews stood out to him.<\/p>\n
The girls\u2019 under-17 crew was the exact same crew who won the under-18 event.<\/p>\n
Two of the crew members, Bailey Barnett and coxswain Morgan Wood, were part of all three gold medal quads.<\/p>\n
Dickinson said the \u201cdogfight\u201d the gold-winning boys\u2019 under-17 coxed quad had with Whanganui Collegiate was a surprise.<\/p>\n
Dickinson praised the efforts of under-17 quad crew member Ross Llaneta, who had 28 minutes after finishing to get to the start of the under-16 single sculls, in which he won bronze.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really good about where we are. Over the past four years, no school has won more medals at North Island Secondary School [Championships] than Whanganui High School,\u201d Dickinson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe schools at the top are usually deep-pocket private schools so to be able to say that with the limited resources we have is pretty bloody cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whanganui Collegiate made 14 A finals, collecting five silver medals and two bronze.<\/p>\n
Overall, Collegiate placed 10th-equal with St Paul\u2019s Collegiate School.<\/p>\n
Collegiate School\u2019s master in charge and manager of rowing Gus Scott was pleased with his crew\u2019s performance and wanted to back it up at the 2026 Maadi Cup at the end of March.<\/p>\n
Scott said the school was unlucky to miss out on a couple of gold medals, particularly in the boys\u2019 under-16 coxed quad, who came second to King\u2019s College by 0.03s.<\/p>\n
Whanganui Girls\u2019 College\u2019s Lusia Smith won the girls\u2019 under-16 single sculls.<\/p>\n
It is the first time Girls\u2019 College has won a medal since 2005.<\/p>\n
John Carter, of the Girls\u2019 College coaching team, said Smith was an amazing athlete who was defying her age by winning an under-16 event at the age of 14.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just her strength; she pushes that boat an amazing amount of distance each stroke, it is just phenomenal,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe went into the heats and got second and she was stressed about it but we spoke about it for two days and formulated a plan [to win].\u201d<\/p>\n
Girls\u2019 College made one other A final, with the girls\u2019 under-18 novice double sculls.<\/p>\n
It is the first time since 2020 Girls\u2019 College has sent crews to the North Island Championships.<\/p>\n
Carter said the school\u2019s performance closed out a number of \u201cbuilding years\u201d after Covid-19.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have tried to get them into a team environment where they get to drive what they are doing and the results are stemming from that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cullinane College\u2019s boys\u2019 under-15 double sculls crew of Logan McBride and Luca Kuehne made the school\u2019s only A final.<\/p>\n
Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey went into North Islands [regatta] more tired than they have ever been in my time at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,1975,5759,33351,49640,2514,1362,111,139,529,69,6777,38404,4062,6649,2242,213,18835,1883],"class_list":["post-320602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-at","tag-championships","tag-excel","tag-finals","tag-island","tag-made","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-performance","tag-rowing","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-secondary","tag-sports","tag-strong","tag-whanganui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}