Issue 19, 2013 - Balliol College - University of Oxford

student news
Reflections on a rowing career
By lynn huTchings (2010)
In summer 2013 I hope to be racing with Balliol College Women’s Boat Club in
my 14th and final set of bumps. In a rowing career that has now stretched over 15
years, I’ve been fortunate enough to row for over ten clubs, including four colleges
and two universities.
My rowing career started in Cambridge, where
i spent eight years reading first anthropology
and then medicine. in between studying i
found time to race for Cambridge university
Women’s Boat Club from 2000 to 2002, and
was Lightweight President in 2002. When
Lynn Hutchings (left) racing with BCWBC
i finally left university, the real world of
doctoring left little time for sport, and after
needing a few operations myself, i assumed
my sporting career was largely over.
However, when i came to oxford as
a graduate in 2010, the lure of trying for
Peter Stanner
another boat race was too great to resist.
in my first year, i rowed with the oxford
university Women’s Boat Club, racing in
Osiris for the 2011 Henley Boat Races.
in a controversial race, we won but were
disqualified after crossing the finish line.
For the past two years, i have trained and
raced with ouWLRC, the university women’s
lightweight squad. unfortunately, illness
ruled me out of the 2012 Boat Race, but i
raced for ouWLRC over the summer, which
culminated in the elite lightweight coxless iVs
event at Henley Women’s Regatta. this has
made me the first person to have raced for all
three of CuWBC, ouWBC, and ouWLRC,
and i’m extremely grateful for the financial
support i’ve received from the College’s Cadle
Fund to allow me to do this.
While i’m now unable to spend as much
time training as i would like, i continue
to train with ouWLRC where possible.
this year i’ve spent more time sculling,
in preparation for finding a way to train
alone once i return to clinical work! For
me, though, the main attraction has always
been the team nature of the sport. Rowing
has allowed me to travel to some amazing
locations, meeting numerous people and
making excellent friends. it is extremely
rewarding to be able to pass on some of the
skills i’ve learned, and i hope to encourage
the next generation of BCWBC rowers to
love the sport as much as i do.
Young Strategic Writer
Will Clegg (Commonwealth scholar, 2010)
has been awarded the Australian Defence
Business Review’s annual Young strategic
Writer prize (worth $A2,500 to an author
under 35) for an article he published in
Security Challenges, an Australian peerreviewed
defence policy journal.
this is his second win: he
previously won the same
prize in 2009, when he was working on a
piece about irregular warfare under the
supervision of Dr Daniel Marston (1998). the
most recent piece, entitled ‘Don’t Get smart
With Me! sustaining the ADF in the Age of
the strategic Reform Program’, was a research
project sponsored by BAe systems,
investigating defence sustainment
policy in the Australian context.
Mooting triumph
Balliol student Daryl Ho (second from the right
below), was one of a four-member team from
the university of oxford to win the uK national
Championship of the 54th Philip C. Jessup
international Law Moot Court Competition,
held in London on 17 February 2013. Daryl,
who came to Balliol from the Anglo-Chinese
school in singapore, is reading Law studies in
europe. He and his team-mates, all secondyear
undergraduates, defeated the university
of Cambridge to bag the coveted Rebecca M M
Wallace trophy. With some help from College,
Daryl is re-joining the team to represent the uK
at the international Rounds in Washington, DC.
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