Nobody can say Otago rowers do not pull their weight.
A large number of crews have made it through to the A finals at the national championships at Lake Karapiro after some fine rowing through the semifinals yesterday.
Among the highlights was Alexander Hattrell.
Hattrell (Otago) qualified for the men’s senior single sculls A final — alongside Dunstan rowers Fynn Allison, Sam Barnett, Charlie Manser and Lewis Meates — and the men’s club single sculls A final, alongside Oamaru rower Paddy Spillane.
Allison joins Luke Brock and Manser with Harry Lightfoot in the men’s senior double sculls A final, alongside club-mates Henry Clatworthy and Matthew O’Meara, and Hamish Yeatman and Josh Bartlett.
Dunstan’s Dylan Acton and Ben Thompson are in the men’s club double sculls final and then join Jed Tisdall and Jacob Harrison in the men’s club coxless quad sculls final.
Amy Paterson and Lucy Clark and Katharina Hoffmann and Emer Bryant qualified for the women’s club double sculls final, and Jemma Mead and Maria-Theresia Schrems are in the women’s intermediate double sculls final.
Dunstan rower Isla Westlake qualified for the women’s intermediate, club and senior single sculls.
Fellow Dunstan rower Olivia Key will also line up in the senior sculls and Aiden O’docherty qualified for the men’s intermediate single sculls.
Oamaru rowers Ike Newlands-Carter and Jakob Rohrbach are in the men’s intermediate double sculls final, and Leah Kofoed and Charliee Burnett are through to the women’s novice sculls.
Burnett joins crew-mates Anabel King, Milly Paterson, Pippa McMillan and Greer Dickson in the women’s novice coxed quad sculls final, alongside fellow Oamaru crew Grave Webster, Matilda Isbister, Summer Brosnan, Hunter McLay and Isla Kappely.
Other crews are straight through to A finals today as well.
