Andrew Dickens: Fairness has returned to high school level sport

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Feb 10, 2025 · 1m · transcript

It only took nearly twenty years to address, but high school rowing teams will no longer be able to have year 14 students in their crews.

These were young people in their 6th year of secondary school.

They gave their crews an advantage because they’d had an extra year of training and development.

It's been a bugbear of many schools wanting a level playing field.

Many of the year 14s were back at school finishing their academic work so they could take advantage of rowing scholarships, but the schools still included them in their rep crews.

Critics of that decision said the problem was not just…