With the recent weather threatening most rowing events, Saturday’s sunshine was a welcome break and made for a glorious day for racing down in Bath. We took our Year 9s who have not been able to row on the river very much as the River Thames has been particularly bad.
In the first division the Boys’ Quad began boating at 0900, the team was competing in a reasonably large field of 15 crews broken into two tiers. GMS raced well and came off the water pleased that they had caught up the Canford crew ahead of them; it gave them the feeling of racing a good race. Their second place in the Tier 1 category, just behind Wallingford Rowing Club, was an excellent result given the restrictions they have had terms of water time.
The middle division saw our Girls’ Octo perform. They were racing at the head of their division and they looked calm and confident as they came down the course, a considerable distance ahead of the next crew. Their win by 29 seconds over second placed Pangbourne College was fairly emphatic.
In the final division the girls raced in two separate Quads. Sadly, the A crew lost a blade early on and that effectively took them out of the competition, Crew B had a solid race coming 5th overall.
Well done to all our rowers who make GMS proud and to those who organise and coach them, thank you.
