The Billygoats supported a group of current rowers to go to Oxford. Novice Captain Daan Timmers reports:
The Oxford trip was a great success! We spent all of Saturday afternoon at the St Edmund Hall Boathouse, rotating through the available rowers with two eights out at any one point.
All boats were mixed colleges and mixed genders, and we ended every session with a short bumps-style race along Boathouse Island. In the meantime the others were getting to know the Teddy Hall rowers while enjoying some food from the barbecue.
In the evening we convened in the college bar and went for dinner and drinks together. Most of us stayed in St Edmund Hall, with spare couches and sleeping bags provided by the Teddy Hall rowers. On Sunday morning, we had brunch in college together and then we set off back to Cambridge. We will be organising a return trip in Cambridge soon, likely next term. I’ve attached some photos.
Thanks again for the Billygoats support.
Women’s Captains Emily and Shannon sent this report on their entries in the Winter Head:
Today marked the first races for the women’s side so we thought we’d give you a little update. We had our W1 and NW1 enter Winter Head. NW1 did really well, with no crashes or crabs, and all very much enjoyed it too! They finished with a time of 14:54.
W1 had a great race, and ended with a time of 10:04.6, coming 8th out of the college women’s first boats. Looking at the Lents starting order, we beat the 5 crews ahead of us and also beat Sidney (chasing us). It’s good to know that we’ve maintained the strong position we ended up in at the end of Mays. The attitude and atmosphere around both the crew and the boathouse was really great too – lovely to see some Billy pride back in action!
Now we’re excitedly looking ahead to Fairbairns, with a step up in our training between now and then and high hopes for a really good race.