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A record club entry, a record number of “B” (3) and “A” finalists (8) and a record number of medals (5) made this a hugely successful weekend for Wallingford, showing how far our Junior programme has come in the three years since Katie Greves and Andy Green took charge. Everyone upped their game, with huge…

We took our youngest Juniors to Thames Ditton Regatta to enjoy the fun of side by side racing in a traditional English setting – by a Tudor palace, showers and sun, great home-baked cakes, capsizes at the start etc. – and the mayhem of trying to boat from a small beach on the Thames. Once…

The club took a mixture of Junior and Masters crews to Holme Pierrepont for Nottingham City Regatta on Saturday and Nottingham Club & Masters Regatta on Sunday. Our Juniors won four events, including Annie, Hannah, Tabby, Elin and cox Orla winning both WJ18 4+ and W 4+, Niamh and Emma winning W 2- and Jacob…

We enter relatively few crews into our own regatta as we are busy organising it, but this year our WJ17s picked up a trophy by winning WJ18 4+, storming down the course ahead in both the heat and final. The next day at the Junior Sculling Regatta we nearly broke our record JSR medal tally,…

This is seen by many as the first major regatta of the year, where you can test the effectiveness of your winter training and start looking ahead to Henley. This year’s was an exceptional event: well organised, running on time, superb racing, and even relatively benign Dorney weather with that rarest of things, sunshine. Many…

Our younger Juniors turned on the style at the Junior Inter Regional Regatta on 20th April with 3 medals. We qualified 5 crews to represent our Thames Upriver Region, racing against 12 other UK regions at Nottingham. Our J15 4+ won gold by an outstanding 7 seconds, their first championship win of the year. We also…

On the 14th April the Juniors went to Bedford Head for the final day of their Easter Camp, and for the final Head race of the year. Benign conditions saw us bring home no fewer than 9 wins including the first ever for this year’s J14 squad in WJ14 4x+. After a tough introduction to…

We are very grateful to the Rowing Foundation for their kind donation to the purchase of our new Swift coxed quad/four. Without this, and grants from our local councillors and money raised by our Juniors through their 24 hours sponsored erg last year, this boat would not have been possible. Already our J15s have used…

We brought the head season (almost) to a conclusion with a barnstorming five events in five days. The trailers are enjoying a well-earned rest after taking 23 crews to the Schools Head, the J15 race at Eton Dorney, the Junior Sculling Head, the Head of the River and finally the Masters Head. It was good…

Our best ever performance at the regional trials at Dorney saw 6 of our 8 crews qualify to represent the Thames Upriver Region at the Junior Inter Regional Regatta next month. Especially exciting was that on International Women’s Day our four WJ16s Hollie, Phoebe, Naomi and Daisy qualified three boats between them: a 1x, 2-…