On Wednesday 20th of March, racing will return once more to the iconic 6.8 km Schools’ Head course. With the recent high tide, the race will be the fastest it has been in several years, meaning that the competition will be intense and exciting. The Women’s Junior 16 Championship Eight is always a popular category, and […]
As regatta season steadily approaches, junior crews take the Tideway for the final head race of the season. The Tideway provides a unique set of challenges for the crews to battle with indicating that Schools’ Head will be drama filled race. Henley RC While not based on the Tideway, the formidable Henley crew have had […]
With less than three months between Schools’ Head and National Schools Regatta (two out of what are known as the big three), we are clearly entering the sharp end of the school rowing season. Schools’ Head is where crews with high ambitions start to see if their winter training has paid off and where they […]
It’s finally upon us. The event the whole of the winter season has been building up towards. A total of 36 championship quads from a whole array of different clubs will line up on the Tideway and prepare to take on the 6.8km winding stretch of river. It’s the most important race of the season […]
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 […]
The biggest race of the head season is finally upon us. In one week, 356 crews will be lining up at Chiswick Bridge, preparing to give it everything down the brutal 7.5km stretch of the tideway. Most of these crews are British, although there are some European clubs entered. However all entered crews have one thing […]
Winter has come. The snow has fallen. The cold has finally melted away and spring beckons. The bloom of a new year has been replaced by the slow progression of inanimate weeks of repetition, of marginal gain, of incremental increase. To pass from winter to summer, a junior rower must first complete the most gruelling […]
The Schools’ Head of the River Race is the first opportunity for crews to challenge for rowing’s equivalent of the triple crown. Last year, Claire’s Court took victory on the tideway and continued their fine form all the through to Henley where’s they won the Fawley Challenge Cup. This year there will be 43 quads […]
As the head season quickly progresses and the School’s Head approaches in exactly 40 days, the attention this weekend turns upstream to the 2015 Hampton Head. First of all, hats off to Hampton School for organising what is set to be a fantastic head, especially in the J18 VIIIs category. Hampton have had some bad […]
A huge 24 boat entry to this event although I have a few favourites in mind. The preview… Headington School Oxford A After their performance at the Scullery, where they won the WJ184X by 21 seconds and recorded the second fastest women’s time of the day, they have to go into this event as favourites. […]