2013 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

120 SPORTS CLUBS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Personally I’d like to thank everyone who put so much time into the boat club this
year, be they coaches, the trust, rowers, coxes or the committee – the amount of hours
that were given to the club in return for no particular remuneration was truly staggering
to behold and ensured a strong showing both sportingly and socially. The effort and
goodwill towards the club was hugely appreciated and served to make my presidency an
extremely enjoyable and rewarding experience. Thanks to all for a fantastic year and I
trust 2014 will herald even more success both on and off the river.
Ricardo Herreros-Symons
Women
The women’s side of JCBC have had a fantastic year. Starting with several returning
rowers, we had a strong senior squad of 12, and a keen novice squad of 24.
The novice girls were a credit to the LBCs hard work and dedication. In Queens ergos,
NW1 made the finals and NW2 were best in their division, as were NW3. With an NW1/2
mix, the girls made the quarter finals in Clare Novices with a series of strong
performances. Both NW1 and NW2 produced strong rows in Fairbairns to finish 15th
and 39th in the women’s novice division, and W1 achieved a very respectable 4th out of
the college boats in the senior race, only 12 seconds behind the winning crew. The
women’s senior coxed four also had an excellent result, coming 3rd out of the college
crews.
Winter Rowing camp was also successful, and was a really good week for integrating
ex-novices and seniors. Technique and power in the boat improved across the crews
throughout the week, and we had some sterling sculling performances, including 3 of
our more flexible rowers performing perfect head stands in single sculls for the
amusement of the rest of the club.
W1 and W2 got the Lent term off to a great start when both won Newnham short
courses. In Pembroke Regatta, W1 had some fantastic rows, knocking out Girton W1
and Emma W1. In the quarter finals Downing W1 won by about half a boat length in a
close fought contest, going on to win the event. W2 also stormed through the first two
rounds, winning by over 6 boat lengths in one race and dominating the competition.
They were knocked out in the quarter finals due to an equipment malfunction which
caused them to crash.
JCBC had its best Lent bumps for quite some years, going up 10 places over 5 boats,
with every boat going up. W1 had an incredible row on the first day, bumping Pembroke
before first post corner, a feat rarely seen in the upper divisions. They then faced FaT,
Emma and FaT on days 2, 3 and 4 respectively, and a further bump and two row overs
saw W1 up 2 places to 3rd on the river. W2 also had a solid set of bumps, going up 2
places to 10th position in the second division.
W1 also had a fantastic row at WeHoRR, coming 84th out of around 350 university
crews, city clubs and international crews. This was our highest placing ever by over 30
places (previous best was 115th) and an incredible achievement.
Caroline Reid once again made the blue boat, retaining her seat in bow for the second
year. Katie Whitlock unfortunately just missed out, but received her half blue stroking
Blondie.
In the May Bumps W4 did incredibly well as the sandwich boat between W5 and W4
divisions, and avoided spoons with a courageous row over on the fourth day. W3 rowed
incredibly well, gaining blades and moving up to W3 division for next year. W2 also did
fantastically well, going up 3 overall to finish 8th in the W2 division. W1 always had a
challenge ahead, starting 2nd on the river in the W1 division. Days 1 and 2 saw two hard