Boat Race Crews Announced

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Clubs have unveiled the crew line-ups to contest this year’s Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, which will take place on Sunday 29 March at 15:40.

Cambridge Head Coach, Chris Nilsson, has five returning 2008 Blues including American Ryan Monaghan who is joined by British crew members Henry Pelly, the CUBC President, plus Tom Ransley, Peter Marsland and cox Rebecca Dowbiggin (2007 & 2008). “I’ve pushed them harder on occasions than they have been pushed before,” said Nilsson. “But we had to go there and they now know what they are capable of. We are up against a much stronger boat but I still believe we can win.”

Cambridge
Bow - Rob Weitemeyer
2 - Henry Pelly
3 - Deaglan McEachern
4 - Peter Marsland
5 - Ryan Monaghan
6 - Hardy Cubasch
7 - Tom Ransley
Stroke - Silas Stafford
Cox - Rebecca Dowbiggin

Sean Bowden, Head Coach at Oxford has chosen a global crew for this year’s Race and has three returning Blues - Beijing Olympic silver medallist and OUBC President Colin Smith (2004 & 2006) together with two internationals who are once again taking up the Dark Blue oars, Ante Kušurin (2007) from Croatia and Michal Plotkowiak (2007) from Poland. “I believe that we have one of the strongest Oxford crews in years” said Bowden. “We have a technically strong and experienced crew but we still recognise the challenge that Cambridge represent this year and we are continuing to push ourselves to prepare for the Race.”

Oxford
Bow - Michal Plotkowiak
2 - Colin Smith
3 - Alex Hearne
4 - Ben Harrison
5 - Sjoerd Hamburger
6 - Tom Solesbury
7 - George Bridgewater
Stroke - Ante Kušurin
Cox - Colin Groshong

Cambridge currently lead the overall series 79-74, with one Race declared a dead-heat since 1829.

Courtesy of http://www.theboatrace.org/