Selwyn’s Hannah Evans (second left in the photograph below) will be competing in the first women’s Boat Race to be held on the Tideway in London. The women’s event has been moved to the same day and location as the men’s, and it will take place – with live television coverage – on Saturday, April 11th.
Hannah is a PhD student in Physics, and she has a previous Dark Blue allegiance from her time as an undergraduate at St John’s College, Oxford. But she didn’t row there at University level, and tells us that the Boat Race has only been an aim since her arrival at Selwyn. “When I came to Cambridge to start my PhD last year I decided that I would like to see how far I could get at the university level. I was selected for the reserve crew last year and raced in the Blondie versus Osiris race at Henley where we lost by half a length. After that, I kept rowing and competed in quite a few summer regattas, and I also raced for Selwyn in May bumps. We started training in September for the 2015 Boat Race, and the selection for the Blue Boat has been going on all year performances on the water and also in the gym being taken into account. It has been a very challenging year but I am very excited and honoured to be part of the first Women's Boat Race on the Tideway.”
There’s more about Hannah and the Cambridge crew at http://theboatraces.org/cuwbc, and live coverage on the day starts on BBC One at 4.15pm.
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