Success for BMS crews
Bedford Modern School’s boatclub had a successful weekend’s racing recently.
The BMS Year 11 girls took their new coxed four boat to race at the Cambridge Head to Head where they won the J17 coxed fours on the 4,000m course. The crew comprised of Lily Papworth, Katie McCraith, Hayley Geary, Tania Fulford and Sarah Coombes.
BMS also contributed a large entry to the local Head Race organised by the Star Rowing Club.
The BMS J14 boys’ octo comprising Bradley Peters, Kieran Smith, Jake Roberts, James Papworth, Matteo Di Niro, Jake Wilson, Ben Staniforth, Alexander Waugh, Hugh Higgin and the J14 quad of Miles McEwen, Kiera Smith, Sulaimaan Mughal, Bradley Peters, Hugh Higgin were victorious.
The BMS J15 boys, comprising Fergus Dale (cox), Bruno Jones, Barnaby Hewitt, Dan Tredget, Guy Woolford, Simon Whitaker, Richard Herbert, Josh Taylor, Ollie Clarken also went on to win in the Novice eights category. Hayley Geary and Charlotte Sandy recorded wins in their WJ15 Double Scull and the Novice quad scull of James Brown, Hayley Geary, Olivia Carstairs and Charlotte Sandy, coxed by G Brand also triumphed. Modern’s Senior boys were also victorious with Nicholas Edwards and James Carstairs winning the Novice double sculls and Fabio Titmus and Adam Dingley triumphing in the Intermediate 3 pairs.
Gina Barrell, head of girls’ rowing at the school, said: “It’s great to see some really encouraging results from both the BMS boys’ and girls’ crews, a good start to 2012.”
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Weather for Bedford
Tuesday 29 May 2012
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