The school won four golds at the championships – their best result.
Rowing co-ordinator Adrian Riepen said the regatta will be the perfect way to cap off an impressive season.
“When you start training in September and do all the hard training over summer, then you build through the regattas and then you get that kind of success at South Islands, everyone’s just counting down now (to Maadi),” he said.
“It (the South Island champs) is dubbed as a dress rehearsal before the Maadi so it’s a nice indicator as to where the squad is at.
“If you get a bit of success and some tough racing then it really instils a lot of confidence in the rowers and they can go into the regatta feeling quite good about themselves.”
“When you line up in the heats or the finals and the other crews look left and they see Cashmere High School, I think they’ll know they’re the South Island champions,” Riepen said.
“So there’ll be a bit of expectation that they’re going to be quick.”
Cashmere has rapidly climbed the ranks in high school rowing and was the third-best Canterbury school at the South Island champs, trailing only St Bede’s and St Margaret’s.
“Each year it just seems to go better than before,” Riepen said. “You wrap up with prizegiving after Maadi at the end of each season, and you’re just blown away by what these kids have achieved.
“You also finish up by saying, ‘surely we can’t top this’, and then they just do it.”
The Maadi Regatta runs from Monday to Saturday.
