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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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Cambridge Autumn Regatta 2009 |
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Novice men's crew just miss out on win
The Star Novice men's crew of Paul Tredget, Chris Tredget, Tim Brown, Ian Beale and cox Laura Wallbank attended the Cambridge Autumn regatta on Sunday 13th September.
As Star Club's only representatives at the event, the crew, in the last regatta of the season, did the club proud.
They won their first heat against Sudbury easily. The semi-finals against Cantabrigian was a tougher race, but won again by clear water owing to Star being a stronger crew. The final was against X-Press, a strong Cambridge based crew. The Star crew held their own in a hard fought and well rowed race, but were unfortunately beaten to the line by just over a length.
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Peterborough Summer Regata 2009 |
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Record-breaking rowers on song
Star Club squad signed off the season in syle with some record-breaking performances at the Peterborough Summer Regatta in August.
The 8+ women's crew beating the existing course record by 15 seconds in their 1000m final on Saturday. Kirsten Proctor, Michelle Seddon, Liz Rowles, Cate Dixon, Ellie Rowles, Amanda Lucas, Sophie Branwell, Isobelle Gerrard and Cox Helen Thompson had led early on but were overtaken with 300m to go. However, they powered through in the last 200m to win by one second.
Also on the Saturday the senior men's squad won the Senior eights race, also setting a new course record. The Star composite crew comprised of Will Eason, Ed Porteus, Mark Bavington, Ian Ringer (Upper Thames), Chris Callow, Chris Durrant, Paul Hamblett (Sudbury), Tim Oswin and cox Clarissa Coveney.
On the Sunday the course was shortened to a 500m sprint regatta. In the WIM3 2x event Sophie Barnwell and Liz Rowles combined and reached the final coming third in a close fought race.
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Club Captain Elections 2009 |
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Star Elects Clive For A 2nd Term
At the Special General Meeting on Thursday 16th July, Clive Thompson was re-elected as Club Captain for a 2nd term.
The Club wish Clive and his team all the best for the coming season in continuing to develop Star as a Premier Rowing Club.
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