TEAM BIOGRAPHY

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Team Name

KIWIROOS   (This year sponsored by LEGEAR)

Who you represent

CALVARY HOSPITAL

Name / role of any celebrities or people of note on your team?

Everyone on the boat (Including the Aussies) now lays claim to being a Kuzzy to someone in the ALL Blacks team…..extended families..ya can’t hide from them.

Other information

  • Why you chose your team name
  • Team uniform
  • Why you entered

 

  • Any other amusing events you can share about preparing for the regatta

 

 

Name chosen because ANZAC was already taken!
(Actually named because Chezza our Pink Haired organiser and our haka leader are kiwis, the rest are aussies (Roos)

Black shorts, black shirt, (and maybe Green and gold undies!)

Firstly to support a great cause and when we realized we weren’t racing against real Dragons in boats we thought we’d enter, as well as to reclaim the Haka/ War cry trophy, which we initiated years ago.  If we don’t beat them on the water, well Haka them on the land.

Hello….  if getting Kiwis & Aussies in the same boat, side by side, together, paddling in the same direction isn’t going to be amusing enough, then teaching our Aussie Kuzzies a HAKA will be,  J

KIWI-ROOS are the inaugural holders and drivers behind the War cry trophy.  A few years back, this rag tag crew of friends, family and Calvary Hospital staff, who had  never done this before and had come out to support this event, felt a little bit intimidated, out of place by all the professional looking teams, with tents & some with their own masseuses, Carbon Fiber paddles, Corporate Logos and trendy spandex uniforms and we with our $3.00 t-shirts from “Clints”, smart sunnies and an Esky, appeared somewhat out of their depth, let alone out of place, until our fearless Pink Haired leader and organizer, Chezza  said …. I feel a haka coming on GDM…thus the  War Cry was born,  that day we had over 100 paddlers join us in the Haka and was performed many times throughout the day, with everyone and anyone joining in…. and this year we return....  Thus the War Cry trophy was born!