Over the first May bank holiday weekend, OUWLRC squad member, Sarah Cornick, travelled up to Strathclyde for the BUSA rowing championships. The weekend drew crews from universities across the country providing some high quality racing across all different boat classes from Eights to Singles on a course that has previously hosted the Commonwealth Rowing Regatta and World U23 Championships.

 

Sarah has already rowed in the boat race against Cambridge 7 times, 4 times as an openweight and 3 times as a lightweight, and from the start of the season until the Boat Race each year, rowing in Eights is the focus. The summer season however provides the opportunity to train and race in other boat classes and Sarah chose to enter her single scull in the women’s Championship Lightweight event at the BUSA regatta.

 

Although the forecast rain stayed away, a strong headwind down the course made conditions difficult for a lightweight single sculler. However, Sarah made easy work of the wind and progressed through the rounds to eventually win a silver medal behind a sculler from Durham who is on the verge of making the GB U23 team. This result has gained Sarah selection as the lightweight women’s sculler in the GB team that will travel to Croatia for the European Universities Championships at the end of the season - an exceptional achievement especially given that unlike Sarah, most of the competition have been training and competing in sculling boats for most of the season.

 

On the same weekend, an OUWLRC coxed four, raced locally at Wallingford regatta. They also had a successful regatta, winning the S4 event and posting one of the fastest women’s coxed fours times of the day.