Crews announced for Cambridge Trial Eights

Cambridge have confirmed the line-ups for their Trial Eights crews.

Racing on Tuesday 5th December, Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club will race first at 12:45pm, with Cambridge University Boat Club following at 1:55pm on the equivalent Boat Race tide.

This is the only opportunity either side have to race the full course from Putney to Mortlake with the Race Umpires, so provides an important test for rowers and coxes alike; and allows both sets of coaching teams to analyse the progression and potential.

The first Trial Eights race was staged by Oxford 153 years ago in 1859 and Cambridge joined the tradition three years later in 1862.

The crews for this year’s Cambridge Trial Eights are as follows:

CUWBC

Crew name: Wingardium Leviosa
Bow. Pippa Darkin (Newnham)
2. Sarah Carlotti (Churchill)
3. Paula Wesselmann (Jesus)
4. Emma Andrews (Pembroke)
5. Tricia Smith (Christ’s)
6. Larkin Sayre (Wolfson)
7. Myriam Goudet-Boukhatmi (Lucy Cavendish)
Stroke. Imogen Grant (Trinity)
Cox. Sophie Wrixon (Darwin)

Crew name: Expecto Patronum
Bow. Eve Caroe (Emmanuel)
2. Millie Perrin (Trinity)
3. Lucy Pike (Trinity Hall)
4. Laura Foster (Queens’)
5. Kelsey Barolak (Homerton)
6. Thea Zabell (Downing)
7. Abigail Parker (Emmanuel)
Stroke. Alice White (Homerton)
Cox. Sophie Shapter (St Catherine’s)

CUBC

Crew name: Goons
Bow. Dave Bell (Homerton)
2. Peter Rees (Clare)
3. Callum Sullivan (Downing)
4. Reggie Mitchell (Trinity)
5. James Letten (Hughes Hall)
6. Dara Alizadeh (Hughes Hall)
7. Spencer Furey (Jesus)
Stroke. Freddie Davidson (Emmanuel)
Cox Hugh Spaughton (Jesus)

Crew name: Goblins
Bow. Rob Harris (Pembroke)
2. Piers Kasas (Trinity)
3. Tom Strudwick (Christ’s)
4. Gerard Kuenning (Queens’)
5. Charles Fisher (St John’s)
6. Patrick Elwood (Magdalene)
7. Rob Hurn (St Edmunds)
Stroke. Finn Meeks (Hughes Hall)
Cox Hugo Ramambason (Trinity)

Live updates of both races will be available via Twitter