Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association


The Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association is an organization which governs high school rowing in Canada. The CSSRA has hosted the main high school rowing event, known as the CSSRA Championships since 1945. In 2020, the regatta was cancelled due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Schoolboy is held annually the first weekend of June in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta course. The event is open to high schools around North America. The event is the largest high school regatta in Ontario, as well as Canada, and possibly North America. Evidence of this is that crews have been coming from as far as British Columbia, as well as the United States, and even Mexico. Each race is over the 2000 metre course, the same as is used in the World Championships and the Olympics, but unlike the 3 to 8 km head races usually raced in the autumn. Heats are held on Friday, semi-finals on Saturday and finals on Sunday.
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Several Olympic rowers, including Buffy Williams have rowed at Schoolboy. Buffy participated while a student of Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School in St. Catharines.