St Catharine's College Boat Club

May Bumps starts on Wednesday and we're looking forward to strong performance across the board from the six crews that we have on the river. For information on where to watch the bumps from see here. The times for each division, given below, will be updated with the result when available. The results are linked to race reports where available.

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Bumped Darwin M2 on the reach for +3 overall. Good job guys!! :)

PS: Dare to halve race report length every day pretty much successful haha

Bumped Clare II

With 7/9 of the crew having coming so agonisingly close to blades in Lents, it's fair to say that there were some nerves before the race on Saturday. Just to add to the tension, we were chasing a Clare II crew who on the first day had already come within a canvas of the boat they were chasing, Corpus Christi, before dying and being bumped themselves.

So the plan was to go hard. With the bank being so busy on the last day, we knew that communication between the bank and the boat would be difficult. Fortunately, we knew that Clare's boatman Anton would start ringing his bell when they got within a canvas of Corpus, so this would be our signal to kill.

Naturally I took a massive airstroke again off the start, but otherwise it was solid, and fast. We didn't really stride. Going around First Post Corner the rate maybe dropped to 38, but not for long before Alistair made the kill call in the Gut, and it came back up above 40. We were closing on Clare, but they were closing on Corpus. Running on adrenaline and raw emotion we flew up the Gut and hit Clare on Grassy Corner, moments before they would have hit Corpus.

Blades.

It was unique row. The context, and the sheer guts from the crew, made it a truly special performance.

Every member of the crew worked hard for our success this term and I'd like to thank all of them. Thibaut may be going to the other place, but I'm pleased that he will continue rowing. Hopefully Sam won't let his talents as a strokeman go to waste once he leaves the Cam. Dr Wothers is a rock in M2; his experience and reliability are such an asset to the club. As for Alistair, Dan, Anthony, James and Chris, I look forward to rowing with them next year!

Finally, I'm sure that our term would have been nowhere near so successful had it not been masterminded by Simon and Dr Scales. Not only their ruthless ergs and excellent coaching, but also their tactical nous was vital to our bumps week. A special thank you to Simon for all of the hours he put into coaching and organising us this term.

Roll on next year: Michaelmas seems a long way away!

Row over behind Queens W1

After rowing over behind Queens on day three the aim today was to make a massive move off the start to try to gain on Queens as much as possible to give us the best chance of getting the bump. We had a very strong start and had almost got a whistle on Queens by Grassy. However, we were too evenly matched and crossed the finsh line with a strong row over.

Although we met our match in Queens W1 (well done to them), we did succeed in reaching our goal of crossing the finish line knowing that we had rowed our absolute best and emptied the tanks. 

W1 finished +2 and 12th on the river, which we believe is the highest Catz has been placed since the early 2000s. This puts us in a fantastic place to push to get into the top 10 in the first division next year. 

Thank you to Georgie Plunkett for coaching us this term and preparing us mentally and physically so we peaked at exactly the right time, we couldn't have done it without you.

Next in the schedule for W1 is Henley Women's Regatta 21st-23rd June.

Row over.

After our incredibly early bumps on day 1 and 2 there had been a few whispered mentions of the possibility of blades in the W1 camp, but we knew that in the first division that is a very rare event and so didn't dare get our hopes up too much.

On day three we came up against our toughest challenge yet: Queens W1. We have a lot of history with Queens from Lent bumps, and from races earlier in the term we knew that we were fairly equal. We did not have the best start and it took us a while to get up to our full race speed which gave Queens the advantage from the start. We stayed on station with Queens for pretty much the whole race until the reach when a series of immense builds saw us eat into their lead, but it was too late to get close enough to bump. We ended up with a good strong row over as did both Queens and Trinity Hall around us so well done to them too :)

On day four we will have another go at getting Queens and we know where we can improve on our race from yesterday. We may not be pushing for blades, but we are edging ever closer to the top 10 of the first division. Whatever happens we will aim to row home knowing that we raced as well as we possibly could to make the wheel proud. Bring on Day 4!