Rowing Report

Rowing Report for School Assembly  

Monday 22^nd June 2015

A large contingent of predominantly junior crews raced at Marlow Town regatta on Saturday 14^th June. On the boys’ front, two J14 octuples raced well, with the ‘A’ crew finishing a strong second in its heat, a J15 double nearly made the final, and a Novice eight rowed a spirited race. On the girls’ front, our two J14 crews had their first ever racing experience and the stars of the show were our J15 girls, who raced well in four finals, including two against National Schools’ medalists, and winning J15 eights over Bryanston. Yesterday, at Reading Town regatta, our J14 girls showed that they had already moved on, reaching the final in a quad, having beaten two crews in their heat to reach it. Felix Wahlberg did likewise, in reaching the final of J15 sculls.

A week ago, at Reading Amateur regatta, the Girls’ 1^st eight had a good row in Intermediate 2 eights but were eventually out powered by Kent School, USA, who showed their pedigree at Henley Women’s regatta yesterday in losing narrowly to Headington School in the final. Pangbourne had a fast start in their heat against Branksome Hall, Canada, stretching their lead to a length at one point, only to be overhauled by the fast finishing Canadians in the final third of the race. Two OPs, Georgia Francis and Emily Wilks, were in winning crews at the regatta.

A double of Felix Lammers and Rory Harris from our top boy’s quad won Intermediate 1 doubles at Reading Amateur, our highest status win in sculling to date, while Luke Towers was recovering from tonsillitis and Andrin Gulich away in Switzerland earning a place in the Swiss Junior team to race at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Szeged, Hungary this summer. Impressively, Andrin was in the fastest coxless four in all eleven 1500 metre trials.

Later this week, the Pangbourne eight will try to qualify for Henley Royal Regatta, to join the quad, which has pre-qualified.

MW