In August this year, Seth Garewal, attended a rowing course at Eton Dorney Lake, in Windsor. It was an unforgettable experience and privilege for Seth to row and train at the very 2012 Olympic Rowing venue. Eton college rowers are lucky to call this their home training venue. Facilities are stratosp ...
Read moreOur rowing club travelled to Knysna to compete against schools and clubs from both the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape. The Knysna regatta is the first regatta of the season and usually serves to create excitement for the new season. It was fantastic to see the camaraderie and newfound GEES amongs ...
Read moreOver the course of the weekend of 29 - 30 October, our rowers participated in the annual Misverstand Sprints regatta and Head’s Race near Moorreesburg. Our rowers performed superbly, outperforming the other clubs thoroughly. Our supporters outperformed everyone else too and came out in the ...
Read moreZandra Axten, Nicholas Marais and Andji Mitrovic represented the Western Cape at the WC Senior Championship regatta, where they rowed against both University and Masters crews. Our rowers achieved excellent results. Nicholas placed 3rd in the Men’s A final. Zandra and Andji placed 1st in the ...
Read moreSomerset College rower, Lisa McDonald was part of the SA Schools U/16 squad that visited the UK recently. The squad performed really well in all 3 regattas they competed in. In particular, Lisa’s team achieved 3rd place for a quad race in the Scullery Regatta at Dorney Lake, and a ...
Read moreSomerset College rower, Lisa McDonald, has been invited to be part of the SASRU Junior (U16) Squad. As the only female rower outside of Gauteng, we are particularly proud of this achievement. Well done, Lisa! ...
Read moreSomerset College was announced as the top-performing co-ed school in the country, after achieving the following set of results at the SA Schools Championships. Aiden Marais and Nicholas Marais made the JM u19 doubles final and placed 4th overall. Andji Mitrovic and Zandra Axten made the JW u ...
Read moreSomerset College welcomes Jabu Khumalo as our new rowing coach. Jabu was a member of the ROWSA Senior National Rowing Team at the world championships in Rotterdam in the coxed pair in 2016, and went on to Coach and Co-Manage the South African Rowing Schools Union in the UK London Tour in 2017. He is ...
Read moreFour Somerset College athletes competed with great success at the recent SA National Rowing Championships, held at the Roodeplaat Dam in Pretoria. Not only did these rowers place in the finals in every event they entered, but they also brought home a total of 10 medals! An amazing achievement in an ...
Read moreFour of our Somerset College Rowers, (Saskia Steltman, Christopher Plotz, Andji Mitrovic, and Kyle Brooks) represented the Western Cape at the SA National Rowing Regatta at Roodeplaat on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of May. Not only did they place in the finals in every event they entered, but ...
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