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Speaker 1: Summer sports tournament weekend Ashburton College. Are the students all

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Speaker 1: over the place playing tennis, basketball on the mountain, blike

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Speaker 1: golf and rowing justin Wallers down in Twice all for

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Speaker 1: the Mardy Cup regatta.

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Speaker 2: Morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Explain to us again what is this.

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Speaker 2: This is the New Zealand Secondary School's rowing Championships pulmination

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Speaker 2: or the final rowing season for the students across New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: That road club and then two weeks ago they changed

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Speaker 2: her to the school system and this is the big chair.

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Speaker 2: So eighty six athletes here in twice all population normally

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Speaker 2: at about twelve hundred.

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Speaker 1: So the place is bursting at the seams. Yeah it come.

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Speaker 1: How big is our Ashburton crew down there?

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Speaker 2: We have got four ten we have got about sixteen

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Speaker 2: Oh wow. Yeah, so it's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Is it just Ashburton College, well.

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Speaker 2: With the Ashburton College officers. Yes, So it.

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Speaker 1: Got underway as I understand, with a bit of an

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Speaker 1: opening sort of celebration on Sunday and then some rowing yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Have we tasted any early success.

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Speaker 2: Yes we have. We've got the novice under eighteen boys

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Speaker 2: double has gone through to the next round. The under

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Speaker 2: fifteen boys and girls doubles didn't go through, but that's

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Speaker 2: how it is. And our senior boy he has gone

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Speaker 2: through the under seventeen single. He's got the eighteen single

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Speaker 2: this morning. So and then yesterday we had the under

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Speaker 2: seventeen girls. They went through. They were successful in their

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Speaker 2: seventeen for their seventeen quad and also the seventeen single.

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Speaker 2: They're out again today, so you know those things are

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Speaker 2: on track. We seemed to be doing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, safe to say a bit of expectation on those

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Speaker 1: girls in particular I spot the likes of Islam Mothas

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Speaker 1: and Georgia Scammel, Zara mcgillon, Teagan Marriott and Eve Marshall.

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Speaker 1: They delivered nothing short of a remarkable performance at the

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Speaker 1: recent South Island Regetta.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, correct, yeah, And so this time we had

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Speaker 2: one more race that we could enter and so the

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Speaker 2: girls wanted to row the they're normally scullars two wards

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Speaker 2: each and then they decided to sweep. So we did

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Speaker 2: the under seventeen four and one won the heat and

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Speaker 2: went straight through to the A final on Friday. So

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Speaker 2: that was great, really good result.

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Speaker 1: What sort of speed are these boats getting to?

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Speaker 2: Justin they normally run between about fifteen to nineteen kilometers

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Speaker 2: an hour, so you know they're tapping up.

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Speaker 1: The lake quick enough when you consider the year that

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Speaker 1: that goes into moving them. Are conditions on side, bigger

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Speaker 1: pattern conditions on side, like the weather's playing ball.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely glorious for any for anyone that can tear themselves

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Speaker 2: away from your radio show, it's it's live streams and

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Speaker 2: the live streaming is just shows what an absolutely gorgeous place.

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Speaker 2: The Mackenzie Gaisoners they've got drowns up on and it

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Speaker 2: is stunning, absolutely stunning. We've got a world rowing Fisa

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Speaker 2: Umpire over from Germany. He's come over because he was

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Speaker 2: told it was the most beautiful place to row in

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Speaker 2: in the world and he's agreed, so he's here officiating.

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Speaker 2: So it's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: This may be putting you on the spot, but did

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Speaker 1: a quick Google search around the Mardy cap this morning.

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Speaker 1: Does it have Egyptian roots?

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Speaker 2: This thing, Yes, it does. It was originally competed by

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Speaker 2: the New New Zealand forces who were space who who

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Speaker 2: were at the Mardi camp in Egypt, and it was

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Speaker 2: a competition between the New Zealanders and an Egyptian rowing

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Speaker 2: club and so uh yeah, and so it was competed

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Speaker 2: for and won by New Zealand. And so that's the

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Speaker 2: that's that is the basis of it.

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Speaker 1: That explains why there's a wee pyramid on the on

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Speaker 1: the bottom. So are there any particular titles that were

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Speaker 1: there to defend for us or in general for year

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Speaker 1: as an usage Burton and that will not.

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Speaker 2: Really to defend because because the thing with us, as

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Speaker 2: we go up, our rowers go up through the age grades, right,

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Speaker 2: so so was left behind our r season an hour

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Speaker 2: into a different age grade. But of course the thing

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Speaker 2: with the athletes is they travel through life. You know,

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Speaker 2: you travel through life with your age peers. So the

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Speaker 2: people that they meet compete, and the friends that they

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Speaker 2: make and the sport will be there with them in

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Speaker 2: fifty years time. So it's great, it's really good.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it must be such an atmosphere, such camaraderie, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that everybody involved will have an absolute blast

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Speaker 1: making a splash down in twicele for the muddy cut

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Speaker 1: raghetta chs fulfilling us in Justin Waller