Date: Saturday 4th July
Time: Tea break
Location: Butlers field car park space BB54
Cost: £10

Following the success of the Annual Dinner and Eights Head Alumni Reception ICBC would like to invite Rowing Alumni to a BBQ at Henley Royal Regatta. Meet crews, coaches and catch up with old friends.

Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to the Captain, Erica Thompson; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

A light selection of food and drinks will be available.

Parliamentary Boat Races: The Parliamentary boat races take place every year on the Thames outside the Houses of Parliament. Races include Lords vs. Commons, crews from London Youth Rowing and a men and women’s senior race. As IC is quite a big deal, a men’s crew was invited to take part by the event organisers to race against London Rowing Club. The IC crew was a mismatch of rowers ranging from superstar Will Todd who is ranked in the top ten pairs in the world, to Rory Fallon; a complete beginner at the start of the year.

Marlow Regatta 2009: On the 20th and 21st of June 2009 ICBC’s men’s squadron competed at Marlow Regatta with guns blazing. Officer Bellion was at the scene…

Marlow Regatta is the last chance for crews to race before Henley Royal Regatta in two weeks time and takes place at Dorney lake; the very same venue where IC 1st 8 claimed a magnificent victory just three weeks earlier. Since then coach Steve Trapmore has decided that boys should become men and the 8+ was entered in a higher status category placing IC in direct competition with the best club and university crews in the country.

Henley Women’s Regatta (HWR) 2009: Duffy Wins Henley. The pinnacle of a season’s training was over in less than 5 strokes for the women’s student academic four (Christina Duffy/Selina Graham/Chloe Symmonds/Julia Hong cox: Kate Wylie) when the crew steered directly into Salford University Rowing Club in the opening round and were disqualified. The stunned crew made their way down the course in shock as dreams of becoming as mighty as 2007 Henley Winner Will Todd were smashed before their very eyes. It was a weekend to forget with all crews unable to get past the opening round (or Temple Island for the 4+), although the elite 4x did IC proud with very little between all crews in their category.

Photo by Nick Ablitt

Metropolitan Regatta, Dorney Lake 2009: The sun shone down on Eton’s prestige rowing facility at Dorney Lake for the MET regatta "last weekend". The regatta runs as two separate days of racing allowing crews to combine in different categories. For IC this was a chance to speed test the women’s Henley crews and for the men to test some Henley Royal Regatta combinations. Overall squad performances fell below expectation with just one win: The men’s Intermediate 1 8+ on Sunday. There was also a notable gutsy performance from the WE4x who put in a strong performance finishing second in the final behind a tough UL crew.

FISA Rowing World Cup Regatta 2009: ICBC’s Adam Freeman-Pask has won a bronze medal for lightweight single sculls at the Rowing World Cup in Banyoles, Spain. Freeman-Pask replaced Olympic gold medallist Zac Purchase (due to illness) as the GB representative in the men's lightweight single claiming his first international medal at senior level. Earlier this year he convincingly won the third phase of GB Rowing Winter Assessment Trials at Boston Lincolnshire and was subsequently placed in the top lightweight pair of the country. After an average performance from the Lwt 2- last month at GB Final Trials, Freeman-Pask moved back to the single scull for the first of three World Cup regattas. This is the first time a student from Imperial has won a sculling medal at a World Cup regatta. This latest achievement places Freeman-Pask in a very strong position for selection to the GB squad for the Olympics in 2012; especially as the only GB lightweight to medal at the regatta.

Twickenham Regatta 2009: Heartthrob Matt Lunt took first place in the IM3 1x event after an inspirational win from Erica Thompson and Rachael Davies in the W IM1 2x event earlier in the day. Glorious sunshine glistened off the pewter tankards as the winners collected their well-deserved prizes. The 1,250 metre course lies on a stretch of the Thames between Eel Pie Island and Richmond Bridge and offered many of IC’s novices their first taste of small boat racing. Confident steering proved the catalyst for success with many crews falling victim to the course’s bending profile.

Essen International Regatta 2009: Gold for ICBC cox Henry Fieldman for the U23 GB 8+ eased the pain of IC’s Danny Bellion, Henry Goodier, Josh Yerrell and Leo Carrington, who were defeated last weekend at the elite Essen International Regatta in Germany. The four have become the pride of Trapmore’s heart and have been elevated into celebrity status around the club. The crew were not expected to medal at the regatta but were instead sent to gain experience against top senior crews. They faced elite national squads and raced well offering promising hopes for the future. Trapmore (with no son’s to his name) has in recent weeks spent hours tweaking the crew in private outings with a view to getting the four onto the U23 GB squad next year. This would be a great test of their character and speed as the current U23 GB 4- was competing in the same race. But Bellion became suddenly and dramatically ill on the flight meaning Trapmore had to substitute for the race.