A week after Henley Royal Regatta, the championship course is used for Henley Masters regatta. It is an international regatta with crews aged between 27 and 87+ competing on this very beautiful stretch of the Thames. Our development officer, Penny Cuthbert, took part in several races over the weekend and won the coveted Women ‘D’ Eights race. It was a tight race between Lea Rowing club and a composite crew of women from Walbrook and Weymouth. Lea won by a length and a half. Several of her crew members are lifelong rowers, one actually raced in the first ever Olympics for women at Montreal back in 70’s. Penny only started rowing when her own kids started and has been enjoying the sport ever since.
Coxing the boat was none other than Yaz Kone, 16, who started rowing 4 years ago through her school at Lea Rowing Club on a London Youth Rowing initiative. She has recently been concentrating on her studies so has taken to coxing the women’s squad quite regularly and brilliantly steered the crew to their win.