Bronty steers rowing club to best ever result

CENTENARY Rowing Club is rejoicing this week after scooping a club record - one gold and three bronze medals at the 2010 National Rowing Championships and Interstate Regatta held at Lake Nagambie in Victoria.

Brigidine College student Bronty Morris continued to press her status as one of Queensland’s top lightweight prospects after obtaining an impressive haul of one gold and two bronze medals.

Centenary Rowing Club finished the competitive meet as one of the top-medal scoring rowing clubs from Queensland.

Club director of rowing, Michael Opstelten said Bronty’s effort, along with a number of the club’s other rowers, was beginning to fulfil Centenary Rowing Club’s potential of producing champions.

“These results are all the more extraordinary when one realises the ages of these young rowing athletes Morris,16, (Ella) Peacock, 15 years of age and (Pippa) Robinson only 14,” he said.

Bronty teamed up with Bundaberg’s Sophie Jarvis to win gold in the Women’s Under 17 Double scull.

Centenary team-mates, Ella Peacock and Pippa Robinson won bronze in the same event.

Bronty attained her first medal after she rowed to third place in the under-17 women’s single scull.

Her second bronze medal came when she crewed in an under-23 lightweight four composite crew.