Dunedin’s Columba College students were already winners before their boats hit the Lake Karāpiro waters for the Maadi Regatta which started on Monday.
Lucy Earl, left, and Devon Skevington of Dunedin’s Columba College. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
They took out the best banner award for what judge Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan described as the perfect wrap up of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing championships.
There was a familiar face carrying the banner who added to a three generation heritage. Lucy Earl, left, daughter of New Zealand two time gold medal winner sculler Georgina Evers-Swindell and fellow rower Sam Earl, who were based in Cambridge during their rowing careers, and granddaughter of Athol “Joe” Earl, a member of the 1972 rowing eight which won gold at the Munich Olympics, was carrying one side while crewmate Devon Skevington had the other.
Lucy and Devon were members of the Columba College under 15 coxed four which started in the heats on Monday.
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Lucy Earl, left, and Devon Skevington of Dunedin’s Columba College. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
