National Schools' Regatta

National Schools' is now looming large on the horizon, with the draw published and lots of our crews looking in good shape to be in contention for medals.

Saturday will see racing in VIIIs, with Upper Boats and Colts also racing in small boats on the Sunday.

The action starts early on Saturday morning for the J15s, with a time trial for JCB and JCC in J15 2ndVIIIs.  Semi-finals are all in the middle of the day, led off by The VIII at 1156 (first event off as there is a repechage a couple of hours later).  JCA and the 2nd VIII will also have semi-finals.  For all Colts crews and the 3rd VIII it's straight to the final.  Finals start for our crews with J15 2nd VIIIs at 1704; the final of Championship VIIIs is the last race of the day at 1938.

On Sunday The VIII will split into a coxed and coxless four and there will be two quads, drawn from the 2nd and 3rd VIIIs.  Colts A will race in two coxless fours.  There are time trials for all these events, from 1005 to 1105.  Semi-finals would be in the early afternoon, and finals around 1700.

Wallingford

After all the excitement of BASHER, the first main regatta of the season say excellent racing across the club. There were four wins in all, with the 2nd VIII taking both Intermediate 3 and J18B VIIIs. Colts A won J16 VIIIs and Junior Colts B won J15 B VIIIs. Both Colts B and the 3rd VIII came in ahead of their rivals from Hampton. There were near misses too. The top half of The VIII just missed out in Senior Coxed Fours in a race which went down to which crew was taking a stroke on the line. Junior Colts A rowed a gutsy race in their final, holding the lead for much of the course, but not quite keeping Latymer at bay.
The club is in fine spirits.

Wallingford off to a good start

Wallingford Regatta

Apologies for the lack of more recent updates.  For reasons that some of you will know, life has got more hectic than ever of late.  Tomorrow sees a full day's racing for the club, and an excellent chance to see how we are shaping up for Nat Schools.  Crews will be racing in the following categories:

Div 1      The VIII                IM1 8+

                2^nd VIII                  IM3 8+

                3^rd VIII                   IM3 8+

                JCB                         J15B 8+

                JCC                         J15B 8+

 

Div 2      The VIII                Sen 4+ and IM3 4+

                2^nd VIII                  J18B 8+

                JCA                         J15A 8+

                Colts A                  J16 8+

                Colts B                  J16 8+