The Women’s Coxed Fours has only four entries for Head of the Trent. All four crews will therefore be aiming for the podium. City of Bristol RC City of Bristol’s four is the other half of the crew that won the Senior Women pennant at Head of the Trent and placed sixth at Henley Fours […]
We return to the iconic location that is the River Thames for Hammersmith Head 2023. A month on from Quintin Head and just under 3 weeks to go till the first one of the big three: Schools Head of the River 2023. Hammersmith Head will be a good marker for crews to test their speeds […]
Hammersmith Head is generally considered to be the first big junior rowing event of the spring racing calendar, and there’s every chance that with the light winds and sunny conditions predicted this Sunday, this could be just the race to shake of some of those winter rowing blues. Starting at Chiswick Bridge and ending near […]
On Sunday, an armada of 25 J15 eights will be storming down the Tideway from Chiswick Bridge to Hammersmith Bridge once again, taking the 2 ¾ mile course downstream with great confidence after many of the crews’ successful outings at Hampton, Henley and Quintin Head this year. Being nearly 2.5 miles shorter than the ‘traditional’ […]
Intermediate eights events at BUCS are always exciting affairs, with one of the largest entry lists. Bigger rowing universities use this category to demonstrate their strength in depth, with A, B and even C crews entered; whilst smaller universities target it as a potential medal winner. The Women’s Inter 8+ looks to be no different […]
BUCS Head returns in all its glory to the Tyne this weekend. The Women’s Championship Quads will be as tightly contested as ever, with seven crews fighting it out for medals. Edinburgh Edinburgh have been dominant in women’s university sculling in recent years, winning BUCS Regatta two years in a row and BUCS Head […]
Whilst GB Trials is underway in Boston on Saturday, bigger boats will be racing at Henley Fours and Eights Head. The three kilometre stretch will hopefully produce some close and exciting head racing. Oxford Brookes University BC Oxford Brookes will be at the event in force, with three boats entered in the women’s eight events. […]
Hampton Small Boats Head, a race over 3000 metres. Run from Sunbury Lock to the end of Thorneycroft Island. It’s the last junior head before the Christmas break, the WJ16 coxless quads category this year does not have the usual contenders in clubs like Henley, Tideway Scullers and Marlow. Club we generally see consistently in […]
As regatta season drew to a close, the rowing community began preparations for head season and the intense winter training that is to follow. The season was kicked off with a bang last weekend at Chester Long Distance Sculls and now as a continuation of head season, Wallingford Long Distance sculls has, as always, an […]
With Schools’ Head just around the corner, Reading Uni head will be an extremely good indicator of everyone’s speed coming into the most important race of the Head season. Whilst the 4.6km course isn’t the same length as the 7km stretch of the Tideway raced on at Schools’ Head, it will give crews an opportunity […]
A fair number of the school crews entered into this category have the Tideway as their home water, and therefore will be looking for an indication of their speed compared to other clubs before Schools’ Head. Other clubs, especially with newly established coxes in their senior squads, will be looking to become familiar with the […]
With a large number of championship eights schools entered in this event, these crews will be looking to see how they can perform in the first big boats race of the season. A number of other school clubs, such as Shiplake College Boat Club and Royal Shrewsbury School Boat Club have opted to race in Open 8s in the […]