 Maidenhead entered 4 junior and 2 senior crews in this year's Kingston Head of the River race on Saturday 12th March 2005. The J14 and J15 age group was the National Schools Head competition, as these events were moved this year from the Schools Head to Kingston Head. Maidenhead's WJ15 quad scull continued their winning ways by beating all the school and club crews in their age group to win the Kingston prize for the fastest crew in this age group.
As 3 of the crew competed in the main event last week, and in the winning WJ16 crew they were not eligible to receive the Schools Head trophy. But nonetheless, they showed their credentials by yet again winning this major head event and by a significant margin of 18 seconds over a tough 5,500 metre downstream course from Hampton to Kingston.
There were several School crews including Headington and Dame Alice Harpur that had expected to win this event. Maidenhead’s new crew combination included Maddie Reynolds from the Intermediate group at bow, Aimee Campbell, Alice Ancora and Ally Brooks at stroke with cox Laurian Pepper. This was a scratch crew put together on the day in a borrowed ERB boat. Special mention about Alice Ancora as she had her 14th birthday this week so it is worth noting that Alice was only 13 when she helped the Maidenhead WJ16 crew win at the main Schools Head last week. Maidenhead finished the Kingston Head course in 20m 56 secs followed by Headington ‘A’ in 2nd place 21m 14sec, Dame Alice Harpur 3rd place in 21m 38secs.
 The Intermediate girls had one crew, that was WJ14 4x+ Carmel Bevan,
Emma Kerns, Aimee Broadbent, Lucy Brockwell and cox Fifi. So the crew
was mostly WJ13s with a WJ14 novice. This crew did quite well to finish
in 7th place in a time of 23mins 41secs. |
 The boys group entered 3 crews. Fastest boys crew home was
the J15 crew (abo) of Adam Lilley, Mark Clover, Matt Reeve, Sam
Prosser with Rebekah Reeve as cox. This crew sculled the course
well and came home in 5th place in a time of 19m 46secs, 46 secs
behind the winning crew from Windsor Boys School. |
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 The boys J14 ‘A’ crew of Alex Ride, James Henderson, Matt Powell and Robert Ashburner
coxed by Emma Sanerkin (right) came home in 4th place in a time of 21m 36secs, 36secs
behind the winning crew from Windsor Boys School. (“There was an island in the way!”)
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 The boys J14 ‘B’ crew of Ross McCorriston, Tom O’Riley,
Ertan Hazine and Simon Lilley, coxed by Michael Compton
came home in 10th place in a time of 22m 20secs. |
 The two senior crews competed
in eights. The senior 3 eight finished
in 5th place in 18m 26secs, 1m 24secs behind the winning London crew. |
 The Veteran C eight finished in a time of 20m 14secs. |
Billy Brooks
Captain Juniors |
