Ellie Sillar
Nationality: GBR Role: Rower
Current Course
Biological Natural Sciences
Status
Undergraduate
College
Emmanuel College
University
Cambridge
Squad
Boat Race Record
2025 Cambridge Women's Reserve Boat
About Ellie Sillar
Where did you learn to row and who was your first coach?
Bedford Modern School Boat Club, Mark Bavington.
What inspires you about sport?
The feeling of a boat/project coming together over a training block.
Explain your earliest memory of The Boat Race
Watching the 2021 post-covid Boat Race that was held in Ely on TV at home.
Do you relish in hours in the gym and miles in the dark, or do you live for race days?
I love racing, but I also really enjoy the majority of day to day training and that's what makes me love the sport most.
What's the secret to managing elite-level sport with studying at one of the top universities in the world?
Getting enough sleep and good time management!
