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With 6 wins at Marlow Town Regatta on Saturday and 7 at Loughborough Regatta on Sunday, it was a busy, but productive weekend for the junior squads and their coaches.
Maidenhead Juniors and coaches had a busy weekend with the junior squads sending its Beginners and Intermediates to Marlow Town Regatta on Saturday 12th June and the Advanced Juniors went back to Nottingham to compete at Loughborough Regatta on the Sunday.
Marlow Town Regatta
Maidenhead Junior boys win 2 events and the girls win 4. A great weekends racing for all juniors involved. Many good performances from new combinations of crews.
Maidenhead Boys
Both the boys' J13 & J14 quads put in brave efforts against strong opposition & will take much away from the experience for future events.
One of the two wins for the boys at Marlow Town Regatta came from the composite J14 Octople containing two Marlow boys, five Claires Court Boys Anthony Tomb (Cox) Jack Rider, Ruben van der Valk, Philip Clapp,and Josh Cremin, plus two Maidenhead R.C. boys of Sam Prosser and Marcus Clover, who have only trained once together, to beat the National Schools 2004 silver medalists, Latymer upper School, by two lengths. This composite Octople crew will now race at Marlow International Regatta next week.
The second win for the boys came from the J12 quad scullers of Jasper van der Valk(cox), Robert Ashburner, Josh Prosser, Bradley Halloren and Jack Beaumont who in their first race together beat the much fancied Royal Docklands R.C. by a good margin to win the final.
Maidenhead Girls
Maidenhead entered 6 events with 9 crews and won 4 events with the WJ12 2x final being an all Maidenhead affair.
The day started with the WJ13 2x featuring Emma Alington and Harriet Ingall. The girls arrived nice and early only to find they had a row over...not bad, but probably not as good as a couple more hours in bed. The two Maddies, Maddie Reynolds and Maddi van Noorden were our other entry in the WJ13 2x and they didn't have it quite so easy. They lost in the heat to Tideway Scullers by 1 1/2 lengths. Sadly Emma A and Harriet Ingall also lost out, after a hard row, in the final.
The girls didn't have much time to hang around and mope or dissect performance, as they had to gather themselves and get ready for the WJ13 4x+ heat. With Josh Prosser kindly coxing them, they faced City of Oxford and Evesham. It was a good race, with good steering and resulted in a win of 2 1/2 lengths.
In the final of this event, which was virtually immediately after Emma A and Harriet Ingalls' defeat in the WJ13 2X mentioned above, they met Dragon School. They had a new cox, Anthony Toma, a Claires' Court lad, because Josh was now involved in his own event. This was a pretty tight race all the way down although Maidenhead had a slight lead from the start, neither crew gave up and in the end it was a win of 3/4 length to Maidenhead.
Moving on to the WJ12 they also had two events the doubles and the quad. We had two crews in the doubles...Emma Kerns/Carmel Bevan and Anna Campbell/lucy Brockwell. Anna and Lucy went off first against City of Oxford who they beat by 1 1/2 lengths. Then Emma and Carmel were the next race down against Upper thames and Tideway Scullers. Emma and Carmel won the distance being "easily". This would mean that the two crews would face each other in the final, and would then have to get straight out of the competing doubles and jump into a quad where they had to row as a crew. The beauty of rowing, your competition in one race is suddenly on your side in the next race. The doubles final was quite close all the way, with Emma and Carmel pulling away in the last 300m to win by 2 lengths.
So onto the WJ12 4x+ event which was a straight final, featuring the four girls from the two doubles - Emma Kerns, Carmel Bevan, Anna Campbell and Lucy Brockwell and Anthony Toma, as cox.
Although they were on the Berkshire bank and had to contend with a lot of wash from a surge in cruiser traffic at that point, they beat Upper Thames and Tideway by 2 lengths. Apparently, when during the race the girls weren't responding to Antonio's calls for more work, he managed to grab their attention by rapping the stroke seat crossbar! Hey presto, full attention and more work.
Our youngest girls, the WJ11s were also present and they also had two entries in the doubles and then combined to make up a quad.
Lexy Dobson and Fifi Bevan had a disappointing end to their entry in the WJ12 2X, after being pushed way over on the Bucks station virtually into the approach lane by their opponents, Chitty and Cadoux-Hudson, from Dragon. They were further hampered when Lexy caught a crab that came and bit her hard in the eye. They tried hard to come back at Dragon and very nearly managed it. Dragon won by 1 length.
Emily Webster and Rebecca Reeves were in the next doubles race down the course. They rowed very well and beat Tideway Scullers, the distance was "easily". In the final Emily and Rebecca faced Dragon (Chitty and Cadoux-Hudson again). They were rowing well until about half way when they began to drift out just a little wide, this gave Dragon the opportunity they were waiting for and Dragon went on to win by 4 lengths.
Emily and Rebecca had to jump out of their double and get straight into the quad with Lexy and Fifi and set off for the final of the WJ11 4x+. Can you guess who the cox was? Yes Anthony Toma, he stayed until the very last race of the day just to help us out....and I think by this time he was quite enjoying racing with the girls. He did another fabulous job, keeping a good line and encouraging the girls to a win over Evesham, the distance being "easily".
Chrissie Wright entered WJ14 single sculls and had a disappointing scull finishing some 3 lengths behind a sculler from Sir William Perkins School in a heat.
Loughborough Regatta in Nottingham
Maidenhead Junior Girls win 7 events.
Maidenhead Rowing Club entered 9 junior girls crews in this years Loughborough Regatta held at Holme Pierrepoint, Nottingham on Sunday 13th June. This was good multi-lane practice ready for National Championships in July. These top junior girls from Maidenhead demonstrated they were in a class of their own by winning just about all of their events in convincing style.
Of the crews that did not win, Emma Kerns raced above her age group and competed in WJ13 single sculls and did well to finish 2nd in the final. Charlotte Weeks made it through to the final in WJ15 singles sculls and finished 2nd in the final. So 7 wins and 2 second places was the end result of an enjoyable, but long day in Nottingham.
Summary of Loughborough 7 wins:
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Crew |
Category |
| Ally Brooks |
WJ14 1x |
| Louise Entwistle |
WJ16 1x |
| Rebekah Kerns & Alice Ancora |
WJ13 2x |
| Aimee Campbell & Chrissie Wright |
WJ14 2x |
| Louise Entwistle & Ally Brooks |
WJ15 2x |
| Louise Entwistle & Charlotte Weeks |
WJ16 2x |
| Rebekah Kerns, Aimee Campbell, Alice Ancora, Chrissie |
WJ14 4x |
The girls have entered 3 crews at Marlow International Regatta to be held on 19th June at Dorney Lake and we will be looking forward to seeing them race against some tough competition.. A WJ14 quad a WJ16 quad and a Women's Lwt quad have all been entered. The boys have entered a J16 quad a J14 quad and a composite Octople.
National Veteran's Championships
Held at the same venue as Loughborough Regatta Maidenhead entered the following crews..
Men's Vet 'C' Quad
Maidenhead entered a Veteran 'C' quad (Billy Brooks, Roger Henderson, Phil Lawton & Orlando Fricker) in this year's Veteran Championships. In a straight final, Maidenhead came up against a fast crew from Quintin. Maidenhead raced hard over the course keeping up with Quintin and finished in second place, 1.5 lengths behind Quintin and 10 lengths ahead of 3rd place crew from Llandaff/Mumbles.
Women's Vet 'C' double and Vet 'D' single
Janet Woffingdon and Karon Phillips raced in a heat and then final of Vet 'C' doubles. Competition was strong and Maidenhead finished in 6th place in the final.
Karon Phillips raced in Vet 'D' singles and in a straight two boat final finished in 2nd place.
Phillips and Woffingdon also raced in the Loughborough Regatta for Women's Novice doubles and finished in 5th place.
Billy Brooks
Captain - Juniors |
