1st VIII – Rowed over in headship position After claiming headship yesterday, we knew that Downing would come back fighting. Channelling Cat’s key words of the day – “clean and confident” – we rowed up to marshal as chonky and […]
1st VIII – Bumped Downing W1 to claim HEADSHIP! Fuelled by yesterday’s bump, the row up to marshalling was chonky (like a Labrador), strong and intimidating. After arriving at marshalling (and being pulled into the bank by a member of […]
1st VIII – Bumped Jesus W1 With no opportunity to race this term and suss out the competition, the 1st VIII turned up on Day 1 with the only things we could; the most intimidating paddling, good tunes for marshalling […]
2nd VIII- Row-over Under yet more threatening skies, NCBC took the Cam by storm on the first day of Lent Bumps. Of the three Newnham crews racing this week, two boated for the first day of competition, with W3 being […]
Having missed out on the chance to compete last year due to Covid, we were excited for the chance to take part in the infamous QErgs (though sadly minus the weirdly orange room because of corona). Thanks to the power […]
We entered QErgs with a group of 8 enthusiastic novices, after meeting a few times before the race to rehearse transitions. Our secret technique was to have two people holding down the footstraps for the one rowing so that we […]
1st Novice VIII Our race morning started in an RFB kitchen, as our stroke, Andrea, made the rounds braiding our hair, as per the Newnham tradition. Whilst we were feeling nervous at the prospect of a 2.7km race, we tried […]
1st VIII – came first in their division The 1st VIII got off to a great start at Winter Head with a chonky row up, a dramatic overtake, and of course matching plaits!! We tried to summarise the events of […]
1st Novice VIII – lost to Christ’s and won against LMBC NW1 It was a sunny yet crisp day out on the Cam as we prepared ourselves for our first ever race. Spirits were high and the sun was shining […]
Rose first tried ‘rowing’ in Michaelmas 2020, in which all she saw were ergs, ergs, and more ergs but never a boat on the river! Still, she was hooked and decided to continue novicing into Easter term 2021 when she […]