St Catharine's College Boat Club

On 21st June W1 competed in the prestigious Henley Women’s Regatta in the Academic 8s category. It has been many years since Catz has competed at Henley and so we were very proud to be able to represent our college and compete against much larger universities.

In the time trial we had a good strong row, and although we just missed out on qualifying by 6seconds, we beat 7 universities and the other competing Cambridge college, Fitzwilliam.

This was in fact the longest we had ever sprinted in a straight line, and now that we have a precedent for participating and know more about how to prepare ourselves for this kind of event I am sure that next year we will be able to qualify.

The crew would like to thank Dan Stein, Georgie Plunkett, Mr and Mrs Stevens, and especially Graham Summer for their support which made our participation possible.