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The Victorian Head of the Schoolgirls regatta is contested between girls at schools from all across the state of Victoria (Australia). Schools from the Girls Sport Victoria (GSV) and also Associated Public Schools of Victoria, as well as smaller school rowing groups which enter under a rowing club banner, compete in a range of events over 1000m for the Year 9 and Year 10 events or 1500m for the Open events (typically girls in years 11 and 12). Whereas in most rowing, coxswains can be of either sex, in the HOSG all coxswains must be female and attend the same school as the rowers of the crew that they are coxing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HOSG Bulletin 20 Nov 2012 )〕 The racing is usually held over an entire weekend (Saturday & Sunday) in mid-March on the Barwon River in Geelong. In 2015 the regatta was held on the third weekend of March, with heats and repechages on Saturday the 14th and semifinals and finals on Sunday the 15th. ==History== The first girl to row within the A.P.S. was a lone sculler from Geelong Grammar School in 1972. There were 32 girls rowing by 1975, and in 1981, girls began competing at the Senior Regatta with Geelong Grammar School, The Geelong College, Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Morongo Girls' College and Lauriston Girls School racing in 1st and 2nd Fours over 800m. Methodist Ladies' College and Carey Baptist Grammar School joined in 1982, with Carey boating a First Four in 1983. 1984 was the final year that non APS school girls participated in the APS Head of the River, with seven girls' crews rowing in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Four events. The following year saw the regatta revert to an all APS event, with only Geelong Grammar and Geelong College boating a First Four. Carey reappeared in the First Fours in 1986, the same year that Wesley College joined, and with Caulfield joining in 1987, all five co-educational schools were boating a first four over 1500m.〔 Around this time, the Principal of the Morongo Girls' College initiated a meeting that established the Head of School Girls' Regatta (HOSG).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Head of the Schoolgirls (Victoria)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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