Rowing Fours’ Head & GB Trials

The Senior rowers have had a strong November so far. Off the back of a really productive camp out in Banyoles, Spain, the Boat Club took four crews to the Fours’ Head of the River on the Boat Race course in London.

The highlight of the day was the crew of Matthew Bell, Joe McConnell, Ed Sharp, Charlie Hall and cox Noah Walker coming away with the win in the Junior 4+ category for the first time in ten years, with another Abingdon crew also coming 5^th in the same event. This added to already strong finish positions of 3^rd in Junior 4xs, and 9^th in Junior 4-s.

At the first GB Junior trials in singles, eight senior rowers travelled up to Boston in Lincolnshire to compete against the best in the country. Captain of Boats Connor Brown came away with the highest finish of 27^th in some testing headwind conditions. Vice-Captain Daniel Wilmot was 43^rd, Ed Sharp 72^nd, Charlie Hall 90^th, Tom Symington 107^th, Joe McConnell 113^th, Matthew Wiblin 138^th and Josh Rundle 140^th after injury. A good line in the sand for the boys, to look to step on from at the next trials in February.

This weekend sees two matched Senior crews racing at Wallingford Head, as well as two matched J16 crews. Alum Rob Harris will also be racing, having been selected in one of two Cambridge University crews.