Arguably the biggest race of the season so far, Fours Head will be the first chance for athletes to race the full 6.8km of the championship course from Chiswick to Putney. With an impressive 23 entries, many from clubs that will look to be among the medals in the latter part of the season, Junior […]
On Saturday at 12pm, we will see a field of Junior boys quads racing down the 7km stretch of the Tideway from Chiswick to Putney, battling it out for the title of fastest J18 quad in the country, in the biggest race of the season so far. With the recent Pairs Head having particularly gruelling […]
The first head race on the championship course this season. In March it will host the School’s Head of the River, the pinnacle of the head racing season. But this Saturday will see the Pairs Head take place. This category is dominated by entries from St Paul’s, but expect them to face stiff competition from […]
Chester Long Distance Sculls is again being held over 5000m on the River Dee, but this year is the first time that Royal Chester have decided to use the new banding system, BROE2. This means that for the fourth head of the season, Chester LDS has banded the junior sculling races, as well as the […]
With only one more day left until Henley Royal Regatta finally kicks off, we have a look at Saturday’s draw to see who we think will be going far into the event in what is the last event of schoolboy rowing for these athletes. Top Half Reading Blue Coat School vs Brunswick School USA […]
In what is the fifth and final National Schools’ Regatta for most of the racers in this category, all crews will want to round off their careers in this event with the best performance possible. Given that both Championship and Non-Championship Eights categories have combined this year with six sets of medals being given out, […]
The season started for many schools at the Wallingford Heads, now it is the turn of the respective regatta to kick off the regatta season for the majority of these crews. Some of these crews have members who will be racing for GB in Munich over the weekend (best of luck to them), and will […]
The biggest race of the head season is finally upon us. In one week, 356 crews will be lining up at Chiswick Bridge, preparing to give it everything down the brutal 7.5km stretch of the tideway. Most of these crews are British, although there are some European clubs entered. However all entered crews have one thing […]
Winter has come. The snow has fallen. The cold has finally melted away and spring beckons. The bloom of a new year has been replaced by the slow progression of inanimate weeks of repetition, of marginal gain, of incremental increase. To pass from winter to summer, a junior rower must first complete the most gruelling […]
Aside from the large tideway Pairs’ and Fours’ Heads, this is the largest field of schoolboy eights so far this year, and promises to be an exciting battle between both first and second crews racing in the same category. The exciting thing about Hampton Head is that it is a much quicker race than the […]
This year’s Hampton Head, held over 3000m on Saturday 3rd February, is one of the first major head races of the year for juniors, in the lead up into School’s Head of the River in March. Although only held over 3000 metres, it is good opportunity for schools and clubs to showcase their early season […]
The first of many tideway heads to come in these first few months of the year is finally upon us. Schools’ Head is less than seven weeks away, so crews will now start to make statements that their winter training has been strong. This first race will give us an initial ranking into who has […]