Crews Announced for Trial Eights Test 2012

Oxford and Cambridge have confirmed the line-ups for their respective Trial Eights crews which will race on Tuesday 13th December.

Racing on the same day for the third year running, the Cambridge trial will race first at 1:15pm, with Oxford following at 2:30pm on the actual Boat Race tide.

This is the only opportunity either side have to race the full course from Putney to Mortlake with the Race Umpires, so provides an important test for rowers and coxes alike; and allows both sets of coaching teams to analyse the progression and potential.

The first Trial Eights race was staged by Oxford 152 years ago in 1859 and Cambridge joined the tradition three years later in 1862.

The crews for this year’s Trial Eights are as follows:

CAMBRIDGE

NAME OF BOAT: “Cloak”

Bow: Felix Wood
2: Peter Dewhurst
3: Sam Lloyd
4: Josh Pendry
5: Joel Jennings
6: Moritz Schramm
7: Jack Lindemann
Stroke: Alexander Scharp
Cox: Sarah Smart

NAME OF BOAT: “Dagger”

Bow: Rowan Lawson
2: Phil Williams
3: Nicolas Kernick
4: Alex Ross
5: Mike Thorp
6: Niles Garratt
7: David Nelson
Stroke: Stephen Dudek
Cox: Ed Bosson

OXFORD

NAME OF BOAT: “High Water”

Bow: Julian Bubb-Humfryes
2: Geordie Macleod
3: Justin Webb
4: Hanno Wienhausen
5: Kevin Baum
6: Alexander Davidson
7: Alexander Woods
Stroke: Tom Watson
Cox: Zoe De Toledo

NAME OF BOAT: “Hell”

Bow: Thomas Hilton
2: Chris Fairweather
3: Charlie Auer
4: Ben Snodin
5: Karl Hudspith
6: William Zeng
7: Dan Harvey
Stroke: Roel Haen
Cox: Oskar Zorrilla