Last weekend, QEHS rowers attended Durham Head, the last of the Long Distance Sculling races of the autumn season. It was a day of very close races, with Seth achieving the only QEHS win of the day in the j18 singles. However, there were a lot of close 2nd places and lots of impressive racing across the board.
Division 1 saw the j18 quad of Seth, Felix, Benji, and Adam finishing with the 2nd fastest time of the division, a great improvement from the start of head season. Other notable results included some very close racing between the 2 j15 boys’ quads, an impressive result from the j15 girl’s quad and Morty in his j15 single posting a time that rivalled some of the much more experienced scullers.
Division 2 saw the year 9 girls, after only 6 weeks of rowing, complete their first race in a very impressive fashion (apart from a minor tangle with the infamous Elvet bridge). A great achievement for them to race so soon into their rowing careers. Both boys’ and girls’ fours (Benji, Josh, Dennis, Felix, cox Edward and Astrid, Millie, Beth, Lauren, cox Edie) showed great maturity, racing in senior categories to post great results against lots of good adult crews. Jennifer and Isla came a very close 2nd in the j15 2x, less than 10s from winning.
Division 3 had fewer QEHS crews in, but the best result was the j16 boys four (Alex, Jacob, James, George, cox Edward) again racing senior and posting a great time and beating lots of adult crews.
All in all, it was a great day of racing, with more experience gained before the bigger races in the spring before the older rower’s attention turns to Rutherford Head, the biggest head race in the north-east.
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