Tideway Scullers School

TSS members will be racing in five events at Henley Royal Regatta. Proceedings start at 10.30 on Wednesday, with a first-round race against Molesey B in the Thames Cup. All other events start on Thursday, and timetable details will be published on the Henley website.

Diamond Challenge Sculls

Rodrigo Ideus successfully qualified on Friday, and so five TSS members are in the main draw: Alan Campbell, Mahe Drysdale (West End RC), Rodrigo, Tim Maeyens (Koninklijke Roeivereniging Brugge) and Olaf Tufte (Horten Roklubb), with all five of the Great Eight members having been selected.

Double Sculls Challenge Cup

Richard Hardy, in a composite with Pete Wells of Bryanston School, were pre-qualified.

Prince of Wales Challenge Cup

The TSS A quad (Toby Lonergan, Richard Twyman, Gareth Sharpe and Charlie Clarke) have been selected, while TSS B - Ed Griffiths, George Turner, Stan Livy and Simon Suthers - fought through the qualifiers for their place. The pre-qualified TSS/Molesey composite will feature a late appearance by 2008 Henley winner Mike Hennessy as a result of an injury to Max Stallard (crew: Ockendon/Taylor/Dunley/Hennessy).

Thames Challenge Cup

The eight of Nathan O'Reilly, Tom Wheeler, Nick Marriott, Graham Benton, Mark Roberts, Toby Marshall, Rob Irving, Jon Davies and Miranda Fisher have also been selected.  

Fawley Challenge Cup

The TSS/Walton composite featuring Jonathan W were pre-qualified. The J16 had a storming qualifiers, overtaking some other boats along the way and start the regatta on Thursday.

The TSS/IC composite women's eight for the Remenham Challenge Cup were unfortunate to be the fastest non-qualifiers.

The juniors put out a record entry for Egham Regatta, with seven quads competing across nearly all the age groups, as well as doubles and singles, spread across the beginners group, the intermediates and the J13/14 racers.

Several crews were at their first proper regata, but all raced well against strong composition, and despite organisational challenges and an impromptu swim, a great day was rounded off with three wins.

Xanni and Gigi, on opposite sides of the draw, ended up racing each other in the final of WJ14 singles with Xanni just pulling ahead to take victory.

The WJ13 quad of Sophie, Saskia, Jackie and Hermione, with Xanni coxing her first race, found the draw somewhat daunting, but sailed through their semi-final against Henley. The final was against their close rivals - and friends - Eton Excelsior, but TSS prevailed with superb character.

Once again there were two TSS scullers in the same event, WJ13 singles. Saskia drew a talented Eton Excelsior sculler and pushed her very hard, but lost her heat in one of the fastest times of the day. Sophie reached on the final, where she had the race of her life against Eton Excelsior to win by just two feet.

Thanks, as ever, to Stevo for his fantastic job all day, to Judy, and to all the parents who came along to feed and support their children. And to one Mr Alan Campbell, who presented the prizes. JB

The weekday ladies invite:

• the crews (races permitting)
• their families
• the coaches
• and all TSS supporters

to lunch in the Remenham Riverside car park from 12.30 to 2pm on Friday 3rd July.

Look for the TSS gazebo. All contributions of food and drink, or donations towards costs, gratefully received.

Alan Campbell took the men's heavyweight singles silver medal 3.5 seconds behind Mahe Drysdale, with Olaf Tufte of Norway winning bronze at the second leg of the FISA World Cup series in Munich.

The women's squad fielded four crews (including two composites) and three single scullers, all of whom faced tough competition in a regatta where numerous course records were broken several times over.

The junior women also boated two quads, one in the J16 trial event and the other in women's junior, an event that was won by a composite featuring club member Rachel Knaster, racing for the American School in London.

Honours went to Elaine Johnstone and London RC's Steph Cullen, who saw off Kingston RC (Canada), then beat Mortlake, Anglian and Alpha by a length and three-quarters to claim the Haslam Trophy for elite lightweight double sculls.

The junior again saw success at the weekend, sprint racing over 500 metres at Thames Valley Park Regatta, and returning with two wins.

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