Rats bring home the cheese!

The Rats are in full celebration mode after achieving some great results over the last weekend at the Great Lakes Pearl Dragons Regatta. This was the first time in three years the Pearls Regatta has been able to go ahead, the last two years being shut down due to COVID, so it was really very exciting to be out there racing again!

On Saturday a number of Rats joined with the Northern Region Waratahs to compete in the 20s crew racing 2km. There were 16 teams in the event and Waratahs managed to achieve third place! An amazing effort considering a Waratah crew is made up of paddlers from all over the region, most of whom haven’t paddled together before, so we were pretty chuffed with the result!

Sundays 200mtr sprints, the Rats came home with a placing not only in every heat entered but winning a place overall in 3 out of 4 possible categories! “Our Rat men combined with Nambucca to form a really powerful Men's 10s crew taking out first place, an amazing effort! The guys were just on fire! We were able to compete with our own Rat Women's 10’s crew too, which included two new paddlers and a new drummer, we came home with 3rd place overall. We also had our own mixed Rats 20’s crew for the first time in a long time, we didn’t quite have 20 paddlers, so we were really pleased to win 2nd place overall!”

It was such an amazing weekend, and we all came home on such a high! The competition was really good and kept us all on our toes every race, most categories had three or four heats, with four teams in each heat, so there were a lot of Clubs competing making our wins all the more sweet!

Now we're looking forward to the next regional regatta which will be held at Urunga on the Kalang River in May where we hope to continue what has started out to be a strong and successful season.

Macleay Argus - Friday 8 April 2022