St Catharine's College Boat Club

After winning the second division of Uni 4s last year W1 were determined to make an impression in the first division. Unfortuantely, due to availibilty issues we had not rowed together as a crew before the first round of the competition, but we were not going to let this get in our way!

In the first round we were racing Trinity Hall. Both crews were fairly level off the start, but after a few strokes we began to pull ahead and after a few hundred metres had taken a commanding lead. We held this lead all the way to the finish, winning by an easy margin.

Selywn W1 pulled out which put us straight through to the semi-finals. Here we faced the extremely imposing LMBC W1. We managed to stay level off the start, but they were rating much higher than us and managed to pull ahead. They retained this lead and, despite our best efforts, this very strong LMBC crew won by two lengths. Congratulations to LMBC W1 who went on to win the final against Caius.

We were very pleased with our rows and are looking forward to setting the crew for our first IV in preparation for Winter Head and Fairbairns.