Michaelmas Term 2009 News
Contents
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- Captain's Summary
- Fairbairn Cup Race Reports
- Senior Squads
- Senior Men's 1st IV - 1st
- Senior Women's VIII - 24th
- Senior Men's 2nd IV - 15th
- Novice Squads
- Novice Women's VIII - 15th
- Novice Men's VIII (A) - 12th
- Novice Men's VIII (B) - 57th
- Winter Head
- Men's 1st IV finished 1st in the ARA I3 and Student Novice categories.
- Women's VIII finished 8th in the student novice catergory.
- Men's 2nd IV finished 5th in the student novice catergory and 1st in the Senior Student category .
- Merton College BC visited Peterhouse to race in Winter Head, entering a Women's IV and two Men's VIIIs. We hope to visit Merton in Oxford next term to race in the Isis Winter League.
- Novice Events
- Dates for Next Term
- Lent Bumps: 23rd - 27th February 2010
- Lent Bumps Supper: 27th February 2010
- Women's Eights Head of the River Race: 13th March 2010
- Head of the River Race: 27th March 2010
Details of the current Committee are available here.
Captain's Summary - Michaelmas 2009
Michaelmas is always a challenging term as you can never be sure how many rowers will return. This year, however, Michaelmas training week began with a flood of keen rowers. Shortly after this we also welcomed the new novices to the club.
Over the term the novices have worked extremely hard to get to grips with a new sport and the results they have managed to achieve reflect this determined attitude. (The links above connect to results and race reports.)
The women's squad, just as last year, ran a training plan where by some of the novices were intergrated into the senior squad during week 4, thus allowing them to race in a senior VIII in Fairbairns and focus on Lent Bumps as their main campaign.
The men's squad put out a very strong first IV, which after last year's near miss stormed to victory winning the Fairbairn IVs; an outstanding achivement! Meanwhile, the 2nd IV rowed on a rotational basis before setting the crew for Fairbairn's. The remaining rowers joined the Cross Keys Men's VIII. This year it was a pleasure to have a Men's VIII and Women's IV racing as the Cross Keys Club; it is always a delight to see so many alumni and I hope we can continue to as welcome many people back to the Club as possible in the future.
Finally, as always there are plenty of people to thank for this term's successes; first all of the coaches for their hard work and tireless cycling up and down a very cold towpath, next everyone who has come down to the river to cheer us on this term and finally everyone who supports us through the PBCF fund; thank you all very much.
Imogen Wescott
Captain of Boats
captain[at]peterhousebc.org