Rotorua's best high school rowers will try and make a splash at the 2016 Aon Maadi Cup in Twizel this week.
The Maadi Cup, also known as the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing Championships, got under way yesterday and runs until Saturday on Lake Ruataniwha.
More than 2100 rowers and 120 high schools are taking part in the 2016 edition of the regatta.
Local rowing coach Chris Pearson said a group of 32 rowers from Rotorua had headed south, representing John Paul College, Western Heights High School and Rotorua Lakes High School. He said it was the biggest regatta of the year for school-aged rowers and the local crews had been training hard over the past few months.
Pearson said, unlike some high schools, they were taking pretty much every rower who had put the work in this season.