Finlay Jordan
Squad
About Finlay Jordan
Where did you learn to row and who was your first coach?
Hertford College, Oxford - Harriet Rose Noons and Graham Topping.
What inspires you about sport?
The combination of the technicality and physicality of the sport. As a squad you spend hours on the water and in the gym trying to perfect the finest points of the stroke, but also needs the sheer athleticism and grit the athletes have to push themselves at a high-level for it to work. I love how rowing really combines the two and as a cox how I can best help the rowers to achieve that really interests me.
Explain your earliest memory of The Boat Race
Whilst neither of my parents have any rowing background, I always remember The Boat Race being on the TV on the Sunday afternoon it was on. As a kid I always enjoyed watching lots of different sports so always enjoyed watching a new sport, but I never thought one day I would take up the sport and get the opportunity to be involved in The Boat Race program.
Do you relish in hours in the gym and miles in the dark, or do you live for race days?
As a cox it has to be for race days. It's the opportunity to show case the hard work done by the crew and being able to help the rowers achieve and perform the best they can is something I really enjoy.
What's the secret to managing elite-level sport with studying at one of the top universities in the world?
Definitely being proactive with your time management. Training is time intensive but most of it is outside the 9-5 working hours, so just ensuring you use the hours efficiently to get the best out of your academic work can go a long way into ensuring the academic load and the training load don't start clashing with each other!
