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On Thursday 2nd December, five Churchill novice crews sucessfully raced in the Fairbairns cup for novices. Report to follow!!
All the novice crews rowed extremely well in the Claire Novice Sprint Regatta. The mens A boat rowed well, winning the first round against Christs, but were knocked out by LMBC B in the second round. Both the B and C boats were in excellent form, but unfortunately B boat did not progress as far as they should have, due to disqualification after a blade clash even though they won the race easily. The womens A boat were also knocked out in the third round by LMBC. The B boat stole the show however, by going through to eventually win the womens plate competion, seeing off Trinity Hall, St. Catherines', King's, Robinson and Pembroke.
Three of the senior fours (2 men's and 1 women's) raced in the Fours Head on the Thames. Although the results were slightly slower than last year the crews achieved good positions in the famous race.
Results are available on this website.
All Churchill races began on Tuesday 3rd, with the Mens crews racing St. Catharine's, Pembroke and Caius B and the Womens crew racing Newnham. Unfortunately, the first four lost to St Catharine's by 5.2s, despite remaining close up until Ditton corner. However, the second four scored an easy victory over Pembroke, as did the third four over Caius B. The Womens four lost to Newnham.
Wednesday saw a much awaited clash between the second and third mens fours. Despite good rowing from both crews, the second four scored a 8.1s victory taking them into the semi-final with the eventual tournament winners - St. Catharine's.
Results are now available.
On both Saturday and Sunday, the first and second senior mens fours took part in a training weekend on the Thames. Rowing on the Tideway as guests of the Tideway Scullers School and coached by Martin Hoather (ex Churchill and CULRC), all those taking part felt they made significant improvements to their technique and had a great time.
In the meantime, our novice boats are all making good progress towards their first races in a few weeks time.
Although a number of important rowers have moved on there are still plenty of people to provide a solid rowing base and we have high hopes for the forthcoming races.
See the crew lists for more information.
Its still not too late to get involved with the boat club. Any prospective new oarsmen or women should contact either Adam Candy or Katy Yarwood as soon as possible!
First VIII cox Oliver Martin is trialling for the CULRC this term. Unfortunately a persistent injury has forced Nick Guillard to abandon his plans to trial for CULRC.
Despite a productive stint with CUWBC's Development Squad last June, Madeleine Britton and Louise Jones will concentrate on rowing for Churchill this year, rather than trialling for the University crews.
His novice coxless quad finished sixth overall (out of more than 150 boats) and second out of six in the men's S3 category. Due to a strong and steady headwind, times for all crews were much slower this year in comparison to previous years with some crews taking over six hours to complete the race. The Free Press crew finished the 31 mile race with an overall time of 4:18.
The crew would like to thank Chris Boswell for logistics support, Laurie Halifax for letting them use his quad, Bill Nolan for coaching, and Chris Lloyd for inspiration.