Tideway Scullers School

The J16 quad of James, Jonathan, Luke and Aaron contested the GB-France trials at Nottingham on 9th July.

All are J15s except Jonathan, but we thought it worth a try. The trial was a one-off race over 1500m between the five best quads over this summer, and was a really close race. TSS led off the start with York (Nat Schools winners) challenging and briefly taking the lead. TSS pushed away from the 500 to the 1000, where they led by about quarter of a length. Over the next 250 TSS and Peterborough traded pushes, and drew away from the other crews, only for Peterborough to pull away over the last 250 to win by half a length. TSS were second, York third, Tiffin (National Junior Sculling Head winners) fourth and King's Ely fifth. Some five seconds separated the crews. The Peterborough crew had four J15s so performed really well to win, but the TSS crew raced really well to beat the other three crews, who were all J16s.