St Cross College, Oxford

Women's 2nd VIIIThis year's Summer Eights saw an impressive collective performance by St Cross Rowers, who competed as part of the Wolfson College Boat Club.

With 16 St Crossers chosen to form part of the crews for the 6 boats Wolfson entered into the competition, St Cross has become an integral part of the Wolfson College Boat Club. For the first year, the Men's 2nd and 3rd VIIIs rowed in a St Cross boat, with St Cross blades designed by John Tiffany.

The weekend saw an impressive series of rows from all 6 crews, with every crew bumping at least twice over the four days By the end of the weekend every crew (bar one) had moved up through the divisions, with the Men's 1st VIII finishing at 4th place in Division II; their highest ever ranking.

Men's 2nd VIIIOur boat club ranked third overall in Summer Eights, and our men's boat club ranked first among men's clubs, with 11 bumps among the 3 crews. Statistics on the performance of every boat club throughout the regatta are available at http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/eights.html and make for extremely pleasing reading, showing exactly what a successful weekend our crews had.

Women's 1st VIIICongratulations to all the crews:

Men's 3rd VIII - Two bumps. Moved up two places to 3rd in Div VII (StXer: cox Claire Woods)

Women's 3rd VIII - Two bumps, and was overbumped once. Dropped one place to 10th in Div VI (StXers: Alice Kennedy and Laura Burnes)

Men's 2nd VIII - Two bumps and one overbump. Moved up five places to 9th in Div V; a fixed division; so they don't have to 'row on' next year. (StXers: Ian Hart, Ben Power, Brian Harrington, and Mariano
Beguerisse Diaz)

Men's 1st VIIIWomen's 2nd VIII - Two bumps, and was bumped once. Moved up one place to 2nd in Div IV (StXers: Victoria Reuter, Annie Demosthenous, and Claudia Chien)

Women's 1st VIII - Three bumps. Moved up three places to 7th in Div II (StXers: Amy McLennan, Lisa Mol, Stephanie Solywoda, and Lindsay Burton)

Men's 1st VIII - Four bumps. Moved up four places to 4th in Div II; the men's highest position ever in Summer Eights (StXers: Cliff Sofield and Rob Rayner)

Day by Day reports by Clifford Sofield

Wolfson College Boat Club Newsletter

Photographs by Sai Liu ©2008