PHOTO Simon O’Donnell, Thomas O’Donnell, Andrew Oliver

The Coach and his ‘old boys’

At the 2012 New Zealand Rowing Champs recently Simon O’Donnell (temporarily-retired Rotorua Rowing Coach) met up with two of this ‘old boys’.

Thomas O’Donnell (EX-RBHS) , Simon’s son rows for Waikato Rowing Club in Hamilton now and Andrew Oliver(EX-RBHS)  rows for Westend Rowing Club.

Both men were on the podium for the ‘Men’s Senior Four Oar’. O’Donnell‘s crew won the Silver medal in a time of 6:26:84 and Oliver’s crew won Bronze in a time of 6:33:56