Year 10 Rowing: Kingston & Teddington Head
Kingston Small Boats Head proved to be a fantastic outing for three J15 crews, racing over 5.2km. The girls had a strong showing, placing 11th and 20th in a highly competitive field. For the boys, they placed 12th in their category, an outstanding result given that this was their first head race of the season and the longest race they’ve ever rowed.
A week later at Teddington Head, the boys 4x+ raced again and having learnt valuable lessons they executed a great race, achieving 6th place overall in their category. The girls combined the quads into an eight for their first ever race in a sweep oar event and raced incredibly well, finishing 3rd in their category.
Year 11/12/13 Rowing: Kingston & Teddington
The senior squad had a fantastic fortnight of racing. At Kingston the J16 boys came home with two silvers from the J16 single and double sculls and our women’s squad came away with a bronze in the highly competitive J18 quadruple sculls division. The rest of the squad had some tight racing coming away with few fourths and several top ten finishes.
At Teddington we had another successful day coming away with two golds from our J16 boys four and J17 boys’ double. Two silvers from the J18 women’s double, and j16 women’s four. Then we finished the day off with a bronze in the j18 women’s quad. Everyone was extremely competitive and continue to improve in each race.
While everyone was racing Teddington, we had three athletes competing at the GB junior trials in Boston, Lincolnshire. It was the largest number of entries at a junior trial with 440 athletes entered and 350 racing on the day.
U19 Early ID Trials:
November 16th saw 2 events taking place with the U19 early ID trials. This is the first water trial in the GB Rowing pathway that leads to Crew selections for the U19 world championships, and the Coup de la Jeunesse.
Thomas, Chester and Keza took to the river Haven in Boston against a pool of over 400 of the highest performing athletes in the UK.
Mr J Moon, Director of Rowing