St Joseph’s College students will represent Australia at the World Junior Rowing Championships

Four current and former St Joseph’s College students will be heading to The Netherlands later this year to represent Australia at the World Junior Rowing Championships

(L-R) Jack O'Brien, Marcus Britt, Lochie Miles, Lewis Willoughby and Ollie Schwartz are the Australian Junior Men's Under 19 Coxed Four rowing crew for the World Junior Rowing Championships.

Four current and former St Joseph’s College students will be heading to The Netherlands later this year to represent Australia at the World Junior Rowing Championships.

Jack O’Brien, Marcus Britt, Lochie Miles and Lewis Willoughby will be joined by Sydney Grammar School’s Ollie Schwartz in August to compete in the Junior Men’s Under 19 Coxed Four division.

It is an amazing achievement for the boys considering they only began competing together as a group in January.

Four of the boys are current or former St Joseph’s College students.

Led by coach Sarah Cook and Sydney University Boat Club coach Dustyn Butler, they dominated the national rowing championships and selection trials to book their tickets to Rotterdam.

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Ollie’s mum Louisa says that despite their tremendous achievement, the boys aren’t taking the opportunity for granted.

They will be heading to the Danish town of Rotterdam for the competition in August.

“They’ve been training their little hearts out since they qualified in June,” she said.

“A couple of them are also juggling their HSC, so they’ve also had to squeeze studying in between school and rowing.”

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