The Club's Results
Newnham Head, Lent Term 2024
2nd women's VIII (Lower VIIIs)
| 2nd women's VIII | |||
| in Amanda | |||
| bow | Dido Coley | 2 | Loren Blake |
| 3 | Amy Freeman | 4 | Emma Williams |
| 5 | Julia Roberts | 6 | Rosie Baish |
| 7 | Qingyue Zhang | str | Zara Bek |
Coxed by: Bao Tao
Time: 9:21
Bao's phone; Amy's socks: soggy
2 seat hatch: stubborn
Weather: beautiful
Crew: all of the above <3
An interesting race, we made it to the lock without issue. Upon stepping out of the boat to take a picture of a dog Bao dropped his phone in the cam. As it turns out (after plunging my arm in) my arms are not long enough to reach the bottom of the cam and so it fell to Zara to retrieve the phone with her strangely long arms.
Other than Amy's hatch been completely jammed shut due to crossthreading the rest of marshalling was uneventful (but shoeless).
The crew raced really well and looked good, taking lengths out of Catz M3 - who they were chasing. (3 lengths off at the top of the reach and 1 by the end) It was coxed well by Bao and with Bomber's favourite call of strokeside pressure he made it around the course in impressive time.
While passing Green Dragon Qingyue learnt she didn't have to row again with W1 as Máté had gracefully stepped in to row with them - a realisation that brought elation.
I got my first experience of Cam water for the term. I have verified that my arms are not in fact longer than Andrew's - he clearly just lacks committment to scraping the bottom of the river.
Rosie fucked her body up two days before the race, resetting the injury counter to zero days. Lily subbed in but complained that she doesn't do short distance. When a marathon is arranged on the Cam she'll be happy. Ellen also subbed- I thank her for her willingness to row twice in a day
A positive row for W2 and friends. At some point we'll actually have a full crew.
Links
Full Lent Term 2024 Newnham Head results
2nd women's VIII Newnham Head results archive
Compare this time with all Newnham Head times in the archive
