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Marlow Long Distance Sculls 2009 |
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Ellie 0.2 seconds from win at the Long Distance Sculls
7 Star juniors travelled down in the rain to the Marlow Long Distance Sculls on Saturday 31st October to compete over the 4800m challenging course.
This event is used as a final run out in a competitive field for the GB Trialists who will be attending the GB Early Identification Trials on Saturday 21st November in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Ellie Grimley competiting in the WJ17 Sculls came the closet to winning finishing only 0.2 seconds behind her rivel from City of Oxford, who had beaten Ellie by 40+ seconds at Wallingford Long Distance Sculls earlier in the season. However, if Ellie hadn't of decided to cut down the overhanging trees along the course then maybe the verdict would have been a win??
In the J18 Sculls event Tom Durrant yet again came away from a Long Distance Sculls event in 2nd place (the other event being Wallingford at the start of the season). Tom started the race at the back of the pack however picked his way through the opposition and finished 2nd behind an extremley talented sculler from Maidenhead RC.
Tom Beechinor & Andy Walker also competed in the J18 Sculls event finishing in a creditable 9th and 12th place out of 15 starters.
In the J17 Sculls event Richard Hepher was the fastest of the 3 scullers. Richard finished 4th out of 12, with Kieran Elliott coming 7th and Will Stockton following in 9th place.
For Poppy Sherborne, racing in WJ18 Sculls, the experience was not pleasurable. After 1000m of the race Poppy picked up an injury and had to row out the rest of the course.
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Two wins for regenerated Vets Squad
Saturday 24th October saw the first competition of the season for the regenerated Star Club Vets Squad.
Six crews raced (two eights, two doubles, a pair and a coxed four) and we came away with two wins.
Congratulations to the Men's VIII of Maurice Stanbridge, Nigel Brewer, Ian Taylor, Simon Clarke, Mark Appleton, Dick Talboys, Simon Lamb and Trevor Barton, coxed by Martine Moon) who won the Cambridge Rowing Association Vet 8+ category in a field of three and achieved the third fastest time of the day out of a field of 73.
Also to Mark Appleton and Gareth Swan-Brown who won the Vet Nov 2x.
It was a most enjoyable day, and we hope, the first of many.
Katrina (Vets Captain)
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Star Club Awards Dinner 2009 |
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Star Club Awards Dinner 09
Please follow link to the Poster advertising Star's Annual Awards Dinner which is being held on Saturday 7th November Star Awards Dinner 2009 Poster
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Bedford Small Boats Head 2009 |
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8 Wins on Home water at Bedford SBH
The head season began for most of the Star Club squads last weekend at the Bedford Small Boats Head on Sunday 11th October over the 2000m course from the Railway Bridges to past the Butterfly Bridge.
Star entered a record 40 boats and amongest other successful results, achieved 8 wins, including 3 from the mens squad and 4 from the junior squad.
Star Club juniors entered 19 of the 40 Star crews with 4 wins and 3 second place finishes. The junior wins came from the Mens Junior 18 double sculls of Will Stockton and Matt Tapley, Women's Novice Sculls of Poppy Sherborne, the Women's Junior 15 Coxed Quad of Laura Haggerwood, Amy Stockton, Claire Hughes, Alanah Hamilton and coxed by Ceci Somervell and the Women's Junior 15 double sculls of Alanah Hamilton and Amy Stockton.
The up and coming J16 boys squad performed outstandingly and recorded 2 close second place finishes with the Junior 16 coxless quad of Lloyd Mulkerrins, Josh Rhodes-Hook, Michael Jobling and Patryk Gregorzewski coming the closet to winning out of 11 entries. Lloyd and Patryk then teamed up in the Junior 16 double sculls again finishing a close 2nd place behind the strong St Neots duo.
In addition the Men's IM2 pair of Andy Howard and Martin Birch and the IM3 pair of Alex Collard and Simon Lamb also won their categories. The Men's IM2 and SEN coxed fours also won finishing 5th and 7th respectively overall.
Star now looks forward to the Fours Head of the River and their own Star SBH in November.
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Wallingford LDS & St Neots SBH 2009 |
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Promising start to Season for Juniors
Star Club Juniors achieved some very pleasing results at their first Head races of the new rowing season.
At Wallingford Long Distance Sculls on Saturday 4th October, the J17 and J18 boys and girls competed over the 4km course against top class opposition. Andrew Walker and Tom Durrant came second in the J18 doubles only by 5 seconds behind a winning crew from St Pauls School, London. In the second division Tom Durrant was again placed second in the J18 sculls event, by less than one second to Upper Thames, whilst Claire Hughes, Amy Stockton, Laura Haggerwood, Alanah Hamilton, coxed by Ceci Somervell were fourth in the WJ15 coxed quads.
At St Neots Head on Sunday 5th October, the J16 boys and WJ15 girls raced over the 2700m course. Aiden Grimley and Sam Merriman racing in the Senior Novice doubles won their event by 3 minutes, whilst Natasha Turnball, Bethany Elliott, Amy Stockton and Alanah Hamilton won the Women's Novice coxed quads.
All the junior squad members produced some encouraging results from the week.
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