season in the schools 1st Grade history, coming 1st in the All Australian Jesuit Cup, winning the Raschke cup and coming 3rd in the Sydney Schools Shootout. The 2018/19 season has been the most successful in the basketball programs history, with the team breaking the 41-year premiership drought in the 1sts competition, winning the GPS title. The 2019 1st V also won the Raschke Cup (beating Sydney Grammar School in the final of the new tournament format 86-59), Division 1 Sydney Shootout and the Division 1 National Championship (held in Melbourne). The team was also crowned NSW Champion School for the first time in the program's history, defeating Westfield Sports High and Hunter Sports High, with 2nd V, also completing a three-peat of GPS championships. Football: Football, (soccer), is a winter sport at Riverview. Rowing: Riverview was the second Sydney school to take to the water (after Sydney Grammar) and has a strong rowing tradition. Under Father Thomas Gartlan SJ, the school established a rowing program in 1882 at a time when there were only a handful of senior rowing clubs in existence on Sydney Harbour and its reaches. The Riverview Gold Cup regatta was inaugurated in 1885, is one of the oldest continuing regattas in Australia, and has been a key fixture of the Sydney rowing calendar for senior and school oarsmen ever since. The year 1997 was the first year Riverview 1st VIII won the Gold Cup Regatta (Open Men's Eights) this crew was stroked by Olympian Daniel Noonan. The school's boatshed joined the New South Wales Rowing Association in 1889. The facilities are on the Lane Cove River with Riverview the only school in Sydney whose boatshed and pontoon are on the main school campus. Rugby union: (1892–) Has since then, been the major winter sport at Riverview. Riverview has always fielded formidable rugby sides with the sport ingrained in the robust culture of the school. Sport is compulsory at Riverview, until the 1980s rugby was the only winter sport offered. To this day, the 3rd, 2nd and 1st XV are strongly supported by the students with “War Cries” at each game. 17 Wallabies have attended Riverview so far, the first was Ignatius O’Donnell to run on against the British Isles at the SCG in 1899, he was Wallaby No. 29. The 1st XV are awarded distinctive wide Royal Blue and White striped jersey (referred to as