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Sport
Borlase Rowing 2012–13
2013 has again been a successful year for Borlase rowers.
With the Olympics of summer 2012 , Borlase rose to the
occasion, qualifying at Henley Royal , with the girls’ quad,
Amber de Vere, Elisha Lewis, Helen O’Riordan and Gaby
Halloran reaching the semi final and the boys’ quad of
Michael Timofijiw, Jack Beaumont, Harry Shimmin and
Max Coussens winning the Fawley Challenge cup. Further
into the summer the international representation rose and
rose with Borlase representing Great Britain, Elisha Lewis
competing in the women’s junior four at the 2012 world
rowing championships, and Helen O’Riordan also in the
women’s four at Coupe de la Jeunesse. To finish it all off
we had Borlase coach, Chris Bartley in the London 2012
Olympics who won a silver medal in the lightweight men’s
four.
With this golden summer in mind, 2013 training kicked off;
winter training was tough as per usual, the weather doing
everything possible to keep us off the water. Everyone
trainedhard through toMarch , and four events came inone
intense block, Reading University head, then Schools head
, Junior sculling head and Women’s head consecutively,
breaking the monotony of training and providing us with
the chance to use the fitness we had been building for the
past few months. We picked up some great results despite
lack of time on the water:
Reading University Boat head –
J18 8+: 6
thout
of 12 : AngusWarren, Ben Cox, Harry Shimmin,
Rufus Biggs, Chris Lawrie, James Evans, Cam Murray, Hugo
Coussens, Liam Thorpe.
WJ18 8+ : 1
st
out of 3 : Olivia Radcliffe, Georgia Mulraine, Alex
Flynn, Becca Taylor, Grace Bolton, Megan Barry,Jess Hughes,
Kelsey Stoddart, cox: Akil Hashmi.
J158+ : 4
th
out of 30: Simon Jones, Angus Bolton, Joel
Watson, James Langley, Ben Wright, Andrew Evans, Oliver
Lewis, Ben Bownass cox:Tim Baxter.
Schools Head of the River –
J18 boys 8+ 5
th
of 24 (15
th
out of 291 boats)
:
Harry
Shimmin, Hugo Coussens , Chris Lawrie, Rufus Biggs, Ben
Cox , Angus Warren, James Evans, Cam Murray cox: Liam
Thorpe.
WJ184x- :6
th
out of 19: Becca Taylor, Alex Flynn, Tess
Roberts, Jess Hughes.
WJ168+: 2
nd
out of 9: Olivia Radcliffe, Megan Barry, Grace
Bolton, Georgia Mulraine, Phoebe Mansfield, Emma Barnes,
Ella Capel-Smith, Kelsey Stoddart cox:Akil Hashmi
Junior Sculling Head –
J 18 4x-:6
th
out of 21 :Ben Cox, Harry Shimmin, James Evans,
Hugo Coussens.
WJ184x- : 7
th
out of 11: Becca Taylor, Alex Flynn, Georgia
Mulraine, Jess Hughes.
J174x-:9
th
out of 16:Rory Murphy, Cam Murray, Rob Kemp,
Matty Tabor.
J164x-:1
st
out of 38 :Rufus Biggs, Chris Lawrie, Tommy Gayle,
Sam Harding.
WJ164x:-6
th
of 30: Olivia Radcliffe, Megan Barry,Grace
Bolton, Kelsey Stoddart.
J158x+:2
nd
out of 5: James Langley, Angus Bolton, Simon
Jones , Jack Trailor-Thompson, Matt Ayres, Andrew Evans,
Henry Manthorpe, Ben Wright, cox: James Sellers.
Women’s Eights head of the river:
WJ18 8+:9
th
out of 16:
Olivia Radcliffe, Megan Barry, Alex
Flynn, Georgia Mulraine, Becca Taylor, Grace Bolton, Tess
Roberts Jess Hughes, cox: Kelsey Stoddart
Alongside these crew achievements at the heads of
the rivers Borlase had success at GB trials with the J16
boys, Chris Lawrie and Rufus Biggs, who in their double
placed fourth overall at the February trials, being invited
to further trials. Chris Lawrie was selected for the Junior
