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Sarah Polson

Wolfson

Postgraduate

Sarah started rowing on the Chicago River and is studying an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing. She previously attended Princeton University.

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Lilli Freischem

Reuben College

Postgraduate

Lilli Freischem learned to row at Edinburgh University, and has rowed in Osiris twice. This will be her first Boat Race in the Blue Boat. She is a PhD student in Atmospheric Physics studying climate models. “What I love most about rowing are the friends you make by getting up at 5am together.”

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Tessa Haining

Balliol College

Postgraduate

Returning 2024 Blue Tessa hails from Boston and attended Harvard for her undergraduate degree. She is studying an MPhil in Modern Languages.

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Alexia Lowe

St Antony's College

Postgraduate

Last year’s Osiris rower Alexia has stepped up to the Blue Boat this year. She came through a learn-to-row programme at her Oxford college. She’s studying Postgraduate Economics.

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Sarah Marshall

Nuffield College

Postgraduate

2x Previous Blue (2023, 2024) who is from Cambridge and learned to row at Rob Roy Boat Club on the River Cam. Sarah is studying a DPhil in Economics.

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Annie Anezakis

Pembroke College

Postgraduate

President Annie Anezakis, 2x Blue (2022, 2024). Born in Melbourne, Australia, Annie was Blue Boat stroke in 2024, a Blue in 2022, and is studying Postgraduate Medicine. She’s in her second year. She previously attended Princeton University in the United States.

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Kyra Delray

Wolfson

Postgraduate

Kyra Delray has been rowing since she was 13 and has come through the GB junior and U23 ranks, winning international medals along the way. She learned to row at Nottingham RC and is studying a PhD in Health Data Science.

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Stroke

Heidi Long

Lady Margaret Hall

Postgraduate

Heidi Long, British bronze medallist in Paris 2024, learned to row at Marlow Rowing Club and between the Olympic Games and starting her course at Oxford, only did a triathlon as well. Studying an MSc in health. She shares a birthday with Claire Collins, Cambridge 6-seat.

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Daniel Orton

Merton College

Undergraduate

Daniel Orton, who has been given the cox’s seat in his first Boat Race campaign, displacing last year’s women’s Blue Boat cox. A Tideway native, he has coxed his school on the Championship Course and is studying Physics.

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