GUBC Women finish Head Season with trip to Tideway for Women’s Head

Time Penalty limits success at Women’s Eights Head of the River Race

LONDON – Three crews from Glasgow University Boat Club made the trip down to London for Women’s Eights Head of the River from Mortlake to Putney.

The first GUBC crew place in seventy-ninth place after being one of twenty-one crews punished for being late to the start. This penalty cost the crew almost twenty places in a tight pack of crews.

The second GUBC crew finished inside the top 130, while there was also an opportunity for a crew of beginners who finished in 298th place in this elite field.

Full Results

Glasgow University BC ‘A’ – Katie Broome, Cat Dyer, Jess O’Dell, Ella Gildert, Caera Innes, Gemma Collins, Rosie Wilson, Kirsty MacArthur, (coxswain) Alex Sneader

21:11.4, 79^th/304 Overall (33^rd/46 Senior, 22^nd/31 University)

Glasgow University BC ‘B’ – Katy Maxwell, Gianna Cooper, Andrea Byrne, Polly Swaile, Ria Kirkwood, Aoibhinn McConville, Charlie MacDougal, Abby Pringle, (coxswain) Alexandra Lennie

21:54.5, 129^th/304 Overall (15^th/43 Challenge Academic)

Glasgow University BC ‘C’ – Rakela Oliver, Lola Pyde Belshaw, Katie Butt, Catherine Mole, Florie Geurts, Elle Sutherland, Isla Henry, Kirsty McRobb, (coxswain) Izzy Martin

25:12.5, 298^th/304 Overall (18^th/21 Beginner Academic)