Orlando Morley
Nationality: GBR Role: Rower
Current Course
MPhil in Early Modern History
Status
Postgraduate
College
Magdalene College
University
Cambridge
Squad
Boat Race Record
2022 Cambridge Men's Lightweight Boat
2024 Cambridge Men’s Reserve Boat
2025 Cambridge Men's Reserve Boat
About Orlando Morley
Where did you learn to row and who was your first coach?
Latymer Upper School, Kieran Brown.
What inspires you about sport?
All the great friends I have made through rowing inspire me!
Explain your earliest memory of The Boat Race
I grew up near the river and watched the race every year for as long as I can remember. My dad got the headship while he was at Cambridge and, although unfairly cut from CUBC after a short period trialling, is still very attached to it.
Do you relish in hours in the gym and miles in the dark, or do you live for race days?
I think the whole training thing is more of a means towards an end.
What's the secret to managing elite-level sport with studying at one of the top universities in the world?
Being rather mediocre at both.
