National Schools Dragonboat Competition

The competition is exactly 2 weeks after the NSCC competitions and it is a one day event. There are a total of 4 events per division in this competition. 20 crew 500m, 20 crew 250m, 10 crew 500m and 10 crew 250m. Before the competition started, we were all quite nervous and scared of the SJI/ACSI winning us in the competition for both the C div and the B div. When the first race ( heats) started, the B div boys conserved their energy yet got first in the 20 crew 500m. It was a moralising start as we knew that we were capable of winning ACSi/SJI. After the heats, all boats progressed to the finals in the 500m event.. The first finals for the C division was the 10 crew 500m. Surprisingly we thrashed ACSI and SJI in the 10 crew event by over 7 seconds which was actually alot, that was our first gold medal. In the next race, the 20 men 500m event, we were quite scared to lose to other schools in that event as in the 20 crew 500m event, we had to put sec ones into the boat as we had not enough people to race. We thrashed again by over 7 seconds in the 20men 500m event which was again a surprising result to us resulting in our 2nd gold medal. The B div crew did not get so good results as they got gold for the 20men 500m and silver for the 10men 500m. Before the 250m events came, the rain came, there was lightning and thus the organisers decided to postpone the event to the 8th of July, we were quite sure that we would be able to get a clean sweep of gold medals for the C division team as we lost to the A division 20men boat in 250m by only a mere 4 seconds. Till the 8th of July, the dragonboat title is still within our reach.