Isle of Wight rowers were at the Hampshire and Dorset Amateur Rowing Association Regatta season finale, at Hamworthy Park, Poole, on Saturday, September 2.
For the second year in a row, Shanklin Sandown Rowing Club won the overall aggregate trophy for the most successful club and the aggregate trophy for the junior events (under 16).
In the junior competition, the squad won five events.
Among them, the Girls J14 Quad, Izzy Bounds, Layla Katirewa, Ella Haydon, Immy Burfitt, and Esme Walters (cox), stormed to victory, as did Layla Katirewa, when she joined forces with Annabelle Steward in the Girls J14 Double Scull.
In the J16 events, with Boys Quad, Louis Sheasby, Carter Horrix, Daniel Page, Adam Farley, and Esme Walters (cox) won convincingly and Page and Horrix were also triumphant in the Double Sculls, with Sheasby winning the Single Sculls.
The Ladies Junior Pair, Frances Katirewa and Beth Katirewa, recorded their second victory, while the Ladies Senior Four, Daisy Faithfull, Emily Faithfull, Rachael Debenham, Phoebe Horan, and cox, Esme Walters, also won.
The club now turns its attention to the final regatta of the season - the prestigious South Coast Championships at Folkestone.
Ryde, meanwhile, competed in five fours, two double Sculls, three coxless pairs and six single Sculls, celebrating a winning performance from their Men’s Coastal Junior Four, Charlie Watts, Ben Sanderson, Will Hall and Paddy Kearney, with Mai Mackay coxing.
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