Early success for rowers

The regatta season made a promising start for Shiplake College Boat Club at the International Gent Spring Regatta. The Senior and J16 Squad made the journey across to Belgium after completing an exhausting training camp at Shiplake to prepare for this season’s racing campaign
On the first day of racing all squads broke down into a variety of smaller boats and the first win did not take long to come as a Coxless Four made up of boys from the 1st VIII won Under 23 Coxless Fours.
The 1st VIII was also delighted to have won J18 Eights in an event that contained crews from four different nations. In particular it was also pleasing to beat local rivals Pangbourne College by eight seconds.

Congratulations also to Marek Lapham who has been selected to row for Great Britain in the up coming meeting in Munich - a superb achievement!






Our boys are the stripy ones at the back!