The Victorian Head of the Schoolgirls regatta is contested between girls at schools from all across the state of Victoria Australia.

The racing is usually held over an entire weekend (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) in mid-March on the Barwon River in Geelong.

Head of the Schoolgirls is the largest single sex regatta in the southern hemisphere, with races starting every 3 minutes over the 3 days.

In order to keep the regatta within a reasonable time frame and prevent large schools inundating the divisions of the smaller boats (e.g. single sculls), girls are only permitted to race in one event over the weekend.

MLC host first HOSG in Ballarat - The Regatta consisted of Heats and Finals for 7 events in which 16 schools and 240 girls competed during a single day.

City of Greater Geelong provides support for temporary infrastructure costs at this Major Event.

SSDF is again the Event Manager, with the Geelong Rowing Association assuming a significant support role.

Entries varied from a lone sculler and coach to 195 participants from a large girls' school.

For the first time Rowing Victoria carried out the dual role of providing the officials and being the Event Manager.

On the realigned Barwon River course the increased use of repechage for 1500m crews was a great success and the new Judges' Box proved its worth .

[1] If necessary, the addition of a fifth round of racing (heats-repechages-qtr finals-semis-finals) was added to the program to a number of events with more than 16 competitors.

Unfortunately due to extremely windy conditions, the finals day of racing on Sunday was largely cancelled.

The 2019 edition of the HOSG regatta was the first to hold the exhaustive finals for all divisions and all boat classes of all year levels.

The regatta was cancelled following the end of racing on Friday 13 March 2020 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Changes were made to the regatta format due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic such as limiting spectator numbers to 1,800 people and restricting access to the North Bank to athletes, coaches and school staff only.

In 2018, the HOSG organizing committee awarded the rights to hold the regatta in Geelong for a further 5-year period from 2020 to 2024 inclusive.