All the single scullers put your hands up! This weekend sees yet another return to the Tideway as Vesta Rowing Club play their part in hosting the Scullers Head. The event is a huge part of the head calendar and features only single sculls in the line up. The J16 men’s field is an equally strong category seeing 31 scullers racing. The upper Thames, Reading, Henley, Marlow is still flooding meaning the run of water going through the Thames to be very quick and potentially rough.
Westminster School
Westminster School is one of the Central London Schools that are competing in the regatta. They are being represented by 6 crews in this category. They’re being represented by T.Griffen, A.Moec, H.Polychronopoulos, M.Richmond, S.Sarmo and B.Weiss. These scullers have been noticed in previous events the most noticeable being National Schools Regatta where Richmond sat in the 6 seat in the J16 2nd 8 and proceeded to come 4th in the A final. Along side Richmond was Polychronopoulos who sat in the 3 seat of the Champs 8 who came 3rd in the B final and sat in the 3 seat for the Champ 4- who proceeded to come 4th in the B final. Though a very impressive set of results the singles that are racing at Vestas haven’t put in any noticeable performances in the field of sculling at National Schools.
Windsor Boys’ School
Windsor Boys’ School is being represented by D.McCulley, M.Griffen Sadler, K.Macklin, M.Chute, C.Warren and D.James. Looking again at National Schools Regatta Windsor School put in some strong performances in sculling by having Warren, James, Griffen Sadler and Chute (sat in that order from bow) all racing together in the J15 4x+ coxed by William Parr who all went on to win the A final and take home the Creber Cup. Wile Sadler and McCulley also competed in the Creber Cup but came 3rd in the C final, still a very strong performance from these scullers. Meanwhile still in the Creber Cup was Macklin who sat in the bow seat and came 3rd in the B final.
Team Keane
Team Keane Sculling school have a very long proud history and have fielded 5 scullers for this head. B.Stanworth, L.Creighton, G.Scott, O.Coxon and F.Venco. Venco and Coxon made good waves in the Creber Cup, J15 4x+ but both failed to make it out of the time trials. The club putting a relatively small performance at National Schools Regatta. There was also no record of them competing at pairs head leaving Keane Sculling School rather unknown so the potential lies for a big win from the school.
Lymington ARC
Lymington ARC are a rare appearance as they are a coastal club. They are only sending one entrance under the name of J.Mans. The club based in the South Coast are very adapt to rowing in rough waves that can appear on the tideway and perform very well in the HDARA (Hants and Dorcet Amatur Rowing Assioation) a coastal league that Lymington sees good success as a club. The main advantage this rather unknown club has is that the conditions may favour the coastal group and give them that much needed edge over the river lads.
St Paul’s
St Paul’s School are a very prestigious rowing school and have seen many great successes over the years. This time round they’re being represented by a much smaller squad of only one sculler. A.Henke is their answer to this category. Though not putting an appearance in the National Schools Regatta he did put a feature in the more recent pairs head winning the open J16 intermediate doubles. A very strong performance going into the scullers head.
Globe RC
Globe Rowing Club are East London’s answer to junior rowing. Globe are frequently successful in the junior rowing scene and are looking to prove their worth. K. Gregorovic is Globe’s representative for the competition. Another dark horse into the competition as theres no record of Gregoric entering Pairs Head, National Schools Regatta or Wallingford Long Distance Sculls.
Cantabrigian RC
Cantabrigian Rowing Club are certainly playing away from home as this club is based in Cambridge and used to rowing on the River Cam. the club are sending one J16 sculler into this event, W.Woodard. Similarly to Globe theres no record of Woodard making appearances at the Regattas in question so leaves the performance to be a shot in the dark. Though the club did send crews to National Schools Regatta and 8 crews to pairs head.
Maidenhead RC
Maidenhead Rowing Club are a very big squad and have sent lots of crews across the board and keep up their strong junior season by sending 2 crews to Scullers Head. H.Neal and J.Loras. Neal competed in the Creber Cup for National Schools Regatta and made it to the A final where they came 2nd loosing out to the Windsor Boys School who won it and are racing the same people there as they are Vesta this weekend. Meanwhile Loras proved to do very well at Wallingford LDS by coming 2nd in the open J16 4x out of 11. Both very good performances to be entering this competition with.
Fulham Reach RC
Fulham Reach Rowing Club are similar to Globe and Lymington by only sending one entrance into play. R.Pritchard will be representing Fulham and based on previous performances we see that Pritchard was in the Creber Cup just the same as Maidenhead and Windsor Boys however Pritchard failed to get past the time trials. Other than that wasn’t in either Pairs Head or Wallingford Long Distance Sculls.
Tideway Scullers School
The final crew that is being mentioned is the Tideway Scullers School. They are sending three scullers into the race, D.Landau, S.Auld and M.Halewood. Landau and Halewood both put in very impressive races at National Schools Regatta where they were both competing in the J15 4+ Coming 3rd in the A final. Meanwhile Auld also saw his action at School Regatta by competing in the J16 doubles and coming 6th in the final of the Marlow Bowl. all are very strong results to take into the upcoming regatta.
Prediction
Overall there a lot of strong crews to be looking out for in the regatta. My suggestions though would be to look out for Windsor School, Westminster and a bit of an outside shout I feel that the Lymington crew would be given an advantage due to their rough water background.
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