On Saturday, the Boat Club recorded a total of ten wins at Bristol Avon Regatta. Pleasingly, these were spread across all the age groups involved and both genders.
Our Under 14 boys continued to impress, with a powerful and
dominant performance from an octuple, though with a more erratic performance
from the top quad, which almost allowed its opponents a sniff of success in the
final through a series of crabs. The Under 14 girls have had less water time
but are improving rapidly and gaining valuable race experience. In the last
race of the regatta, Frankie Allen in a single, having set a blistering pace
for the first half of the race, held off her fast finishing opponent to win by
a quarter of a length in the second closest finish of the day.
At Under 15 level, both boys and girls won their respective sweep-oared fours’ events and the girls’ top Under 16 four was impressive in winning both Intermediate 3 and Under 16 fours against strong opposition from Great Marlow School.
Rory Harris, having put in some good performances in crew boats for GB at Munich Regatta the previous weekend, was back in a single and recorded two wins, beating two good Gloucester Hartbury scullers in the Intermediate 2 event and breaking Ben Maxwell’s course record in the process. He then won Elite Sculls by a commanding margin with a flat out scull.
In Intermediate 1 Eights, the boys’ 1st Eight lost to Bristol University alumni by a mere canvas in the closest race of the regatta, having closed down Bristol’s early lead all the way to the line. They learnt from this and went on to win both their races in Junior 18 eights with increasing assurance.
The next event for our top crews is the National Schools’ Regatta at the start of Half Term. This year, as a one-off, the event is being held at Dorney rather than at Nottingham, its usual venue. If any of those living locally would like to support, please ask one of the school rowing coaches for further details.
MW
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