{"id":147075,"date":"2017-03-20T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147075\/top-spot-for-rowing-makes-school-history\/"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:42:42","slug":"top-spot-for-rowing-makes-school-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/03\/20\/top-spot-for-rowing-makes-school-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Top spot for rowing makes school history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assumption Convent School\u2019s rowing team recently took part in the SA Schools Rowing Championship Regatta.<\/p>\n<p>All rowing schools and clubs in the country take part in this event, as well as a number of schools from Zimbabwe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>There were 1 300 athletes entered into the three-day regatta, of which Assumption had 36 girls entered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147076\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147076\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/03\/11GCNSCHOOLSROWMH2_50858-520x390.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/03\/11GCNSCHOOLSROWMH2_50858-520x390.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/03\/11GCNSCHOOLSROWMH2_50858-270x203.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/03\/11GCNSCHOOLSROWMH2_50858.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Westley (second from right) won gold in the u-15 scull category making her the u-15 Scull South Africa Champion. With her are her coaches Caroline Kapp (left), Kwaku Owusu and Koko Sonqishe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Some of the school\u2019s most notable results achieved were:<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Courtney Westley who won gold and is now the u-15 Scull South Africa Champion.<\/li>\n<li>Courtney Westley and Tannith Johnson who won silver in the u-15 double section.<\/li>\n<li>The u-15 girls\u2019 quad won gold by 0.78 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the prize-giving the u-14 age group was ranked third in the country and the u-15 age group was ranked first overall, the first time in the school\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133923\/girls-enjoy-visit-from-world-class-rower\/\">Girls enjoy visit from world-class rower<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146731\/assumption-hosts-regatta\/\">Assumption hosts regatta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='878bc705f8273871836458e44831c8f9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assumption Convent School\u2019s rowers excelled at the SA Schools Rowing Championship Regatta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":147077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[3720,2211,979,969,13973,2734,3405,1161,1119],"class_list":["post-147075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-sports-news","category-sports-news","tag-assumption-convent","tag-assumption-convent-school","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-malvern-eastm-rowing","tag-melissa-hart","tag-rowers","tag-school-sport-2","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"School sport"},"tag_labels":["assumption convent","Assumption Convent School","germiston","germiston city news","malvern eastm rowing","melissa hart","Rowers","school sport","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}