Rondebosch Rowing

✨Celebrating our incredible Bosch Rowing team after their weekend at the SA School Champs in Gauteng. They showed true grit, determination and gave 110%. Well done to all our rowers on a particularly challenging regatta. This season has brought our RBHS rowing community together with true GEES and we look forward to seeing what the next season brings for our Gents. 💪✨
Our Finals Results:
U16 4+, 5th (Rademeyer, Cass, Bassingthwaighte, Lumb, Suter)
U16 2x, 5th (Rademeyer and Cass)
U16 2-, 7th (Rademeyer and Cass)
U19 2-, 7th (Ellis and Smith)
U19 2x, 6th (Wyatt and Arnold)
U19 4+, 4th (Ellis, De Beer, Dellbridge, Smith, Riddell)
U19 4x, 4th (Dommisse, Jardine, Nair, Wyatt, Pote)
U19 8+, 6th (Ellis, Smith, Dommisse, De Beer, Dellbridge, Nair, Kerschbaumer, Jardine, Riddell)

Wishing all of our Rondebosch Rowing Boys all of the best for SA Champs 2026! Row strong, row proud, Rondebosch!

In the grand theatre of rowing, while the rowers look like the action heroes—muscles flexing, oars slicing, sweat flying—the true mastermind sits facing the wrong way and somehow runs the entire show. Yes, the coxswain.

The coxswain is part tactician, part motivational speaker, part meteorologist, and part benevolent dictator. They weigh less than your average gym bag but carry the psychological mass of a small planet. With nothing but a mic (and sometimes only their voice above the wind) and supreme confidence, they command four or eight towering athletes who could bench-press them without breaking rhythm.

Need strategy? The coxswain has splits memorized like sacred scripture - which sometimes even makes it on board. Need steering? They thread that toothpick shell of a hull through chaos with the calm of a Formula 1 driver. Need motivation? They can transform “I’m tired” into “I would row through a hurricane for you.” There is a valid reason our coxes get carried!

In short, the coxswain is the only person in sport who can yell “POWER TEN!” and be universally adored for it. Rowers may move the boat—but the coxswain moves the rowers.

Let's hear it for the amazing COXES of Bosch rowing!