Catherine Stephenson
Nationality: GBR Role: Rower
Current Course
Biology
Status
Undergraduate
College
Somerville College
University
Oxford
Squad
About Catherine Stephenson
Where did you learn to row and who was your first coach?
Somerville College, James McAnallen and Tristan Gillett.
What inspires you about sport?
How it can bring together people with a range of experiences and backgrounds.
Explain your earliest memory of The Boat Race
Watching The Boat Race in 2023 after learning to row at college.
Do you relish in hours in the gym and miles in the dark, or do you live for race days?
Hours in the gym and miles in the dark sound bad until you think that it’s hours with your friends and the miles are at Wallingford, a really pretty stretch of river.
What's the secret to managing elite-level sport with studying at one of the top universities in the world?
Lots of food.
