OUWLRC is running a Development Squad in Trinity term 2011. Training will start after Summer Eights. We are a friendly and welcoming bunch, and want our Dev Squad to have fun and enjoy some quality summer rowing. Please email Kasia Bera or Chris O’Hara and we’ll let you know how to join in.

Development Squad will train and compete alongside our current squad at some excellent regattas, with the aim to get some 6 lane racing experience and get some race experience in side by side situations. This program is intended for rowers potentially considering trailing for the 2012 Lightweight Women’s Boat Race, to improve their rowing skills and experience training with a university squad; it will provide a great introduction to rowing for Oxford.

The program will be run out of our boat house in Wallingford, based at the OUBC Fleming Boat House. Getting to Wallingford is easy, in the past Development Squad rowers have used the frequent bus service between Oxford and Wallingford.
The Lightweight Women’s Boat Race has a 59.0kg limit, however you don’t need to be any particular weight to join Development Squad; at this stage your bodyweight and erg scores aren’t important. What we are looking for is drive, commitment and potential. Several of the rowers from recent years’ Boat Race crews began in the summer Development Squad.

Please note: To enter regattas you need to be a member of the British Rowing, so if you intend to join our Development Squad please ensure your membership is up-to-date:

www.britishrowing.org. You will need to have Tethys Boat Club (our club’s racing name) down as one of your clubs on the online system and you can choose other clubs too.
For more information please email Max Quel or Chris O'Hara.