George Bourne
Squads
About George:
What is your reason for your course choice?
To learn some business skills after four years of full time rowing!
When, where and why did you start rowing? And what do you love about the sport?
I started in my last year at school in 2016 at Bewl Bridge Rowing Club. However, my family were living in Cambridge at the time and so I did the bulk of my early learning at Isle of Ely Boat Club during a gap year between school and university. Isle of Ely boat from a landing stage directly opposite the Cambridge boathouse on the Great Ouse and it is cool to be back on the stretch of water this time learning sweep!
I love rowing because of the rewarding nature of the hard work: almost always, the harder you churn the faster you get. Rowing is a great opportunity to work on improvement every day and it provides really motivating opportunities to work hard towards this improvement.
What was your first rowing club and coach?
Bewl Bridge Rowing Club, Richard Poole
What or who was the earliest sporting inspiration you remember as a child?
Andy Murray has always been my biggest inspiration, I love his passion, his emotion and his perseverance as well as his refusal to ever give up. I was also big in to my triathlon at the time of the London Olympics and so I travelled to watch it in Hyde Park and see the Brownlee brothers take their medals.
What sport did you prioritise growing up?
Long distance running and triathlon.
What is your favourite non-academic book?
One Day by David Nicholls
What is your dream job? Or what do you aspire to do once you complete your studies?
Part of forensic squads/ lab testing from crime scenes
