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Bishops Rowing Club<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Bishops Diocesan Rowing Club is and has been a home for many men who attend this prestigious school in the heart of Cape Towns Southern Suburbs.\u00a0Ultimately rowing is a sport that feeds the soul, develops resilience and enables an individual to manage academics through challenging time constraints.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo:<\/strong>\u00a0Open 1st 4+ of 2022\/2023 season, bruising their way down the Buffalo.
<\/em>Cox \u2013 Joseph Power, Stroke \u2013 Sebastian Cheminias, 3 \u2013 Didier Marx, 2 \u2013 Jett Bacher, Bow \u2013 Joshua Traut<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Calendar & Training Program<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Training Ideology & Collection Time<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Training Ideology and Expectations<\/span><\/strong>
First and foremost it must be noted that the program is the bare minimum and expected attendance of your son \u2013 i.e. these sessions are compulsory.<\/span><\/p>\n

The structure is to facilitate the enjoyment of the sport, to create a fun and yet challenging for these young men. Twofold, is to propel those young men who seek to strive in rowing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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School Collection Time:<\/strong><\/span>
Between 18:00 & 18:30 \u2013 depending on traffic<\/span><\/p>\n

Erg Collection Time:<\/strong><\/span>
17:00 \u2013 17:30 depending on age group<\/span><\/p>\n

Run Collection Time:<\/strong><\/span>
If completed at school 16:30 \u2013 17:00<\/span><\/p>\n

Weekend Session:<\/strong><\/span>
Times will be communicated by age group reps due to the continuous changes due to regattas and the staggering of sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who Are We?<\/h3>\n

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Zeekoevlei \u2013 Home Of Bishops Rowing<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Bishop\u2019s home base is at the Vlei, surrounded by SACS and Alfreds Rowing Club, and Grassy Park. The Vlei is pristine in winter when full and in summer challenging due windy conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bishops Head Coach Timeline<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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1976 \u2013 1977: Tim Rideout<\/p>\n

1978 \u2013 1985: Unknown<\/p>\n

1986: John Peake\/Nick Dunlop<\/p>\n

1991 \u2013 1992: Gary Williams<\/p>\n

1993 \u2013 1995: Unknown<\/p>\n

1996 \u2013 1999: Harold Blum<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 2003: Unknown<\/p>\n

2004: Keith Mason<\/p>\n

2005: Jamie Pike<\/p>\n

2006: Chris Vermaak<\/p>\n

2007: Matt Pierce<\/p>\n

2008-2010: Tyrone Delaney<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 2016: Sam Wells<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 2021: Brad Smith<\/p>\n

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Brad Smith (Bishops: 2017 \u2013 current)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brad has been involved with rowing since 1998, when he started at St Andrews College, Makhanda. His rowing career saw him row at the Junior World Championships, Lithuania; the Student World Games, France; U23s in Netherlands and Belgium. Brad began his coaching career at Radley College, UK, as a Gap student. He first began teaching and running a rowing club in 2009 at Jeppe High School, Johannesburg. From there, he worked at St Benedict\u2019s from 2013-2016, where he also coached a coxed four and coxless pair to Junior World Champs.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n

Brad moved to Cape town at the beginning of 2017, where he began his role as an educator and Master-in-Charge of Rowing at Bishops Diocesan College. During his time at Bishop\u2019s, Brad has whipped the club into shape, producing consistent results and establishing respect for the sport in a School that is focused on everything but. Most excitingly plans to implement a rowing tank are in the pipeline!<\/p>\n

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Infrastructure & Fleet<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Bishops Rowing Club is known, within the Western Cape Rowing community, to have one of the most comprehensive fleets. A top-flight fleet does not always lead to victory, however, the 1% benefit brought by boat quality, can make the difference between winning a losing.<\/p>\n

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Hudson USP \u2018Shark\u2019 at Buffelsjag Dam<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sculls (1x):<\/strong>
Bishops recently invested in 4 news sculls, bringing the total to 13. Swift designs hardy, elegant and practical sculls, which are ideal for our youngsters. Further, the improvement in small boats betters the student\u2019s opportunity to move the boat and thus become more effective in bigger crew boats.<\/p>\n

Quads (4x+) & Fours (4+ & 4-):<\/strong>
Bishops Rowing club is proud of our flagship boat, the USP Hudson coxed four. Bought in 2020, this is our newest coxed four and Currently, known as \u2018Shark\u2019 the boats naming rights are still available! This category of boat classes comprises \u2013 four quads, four coxed fours and two coxless fours.<\/p>\n

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Doubles (2x) & Pairs (2-):<\/strong>
Fillipi is amongst one of the first boat names that any young man learns in his rowing career. The striking stripe and cut of the boat are distinct! Bishops have four Fillipi pairs for the seniors, a swift and John Waugh further. The juniors only use pairs from U16 upwards and have the use of three doubles.<\/p>\n

Octpules (8x+) & Eights (8+):<\/strong>
Three Octs for the younger gents on being a Swift provides sound building blocks to learn how to move the bigger boats. A newly refurbished True Blue is probably one of the older boats in the club and no longer a sore sight! The sticking fully dark Blue Hudson is apt for the lighter U16\u2019s, incredibly quick off the line. The Open age group is treated to two state of the art Fillipi Eights Avatar and Merlion Blue.<\/p>\n

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Open day 2021 \u2013 Zeekoevlei<\/em><\/p>\n

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