Competing for the Brown Cup on the Gorge.
The rain went away but not the wind Saturday as the University of Victoria Vikes and UBC Thunderbirds eights rowing crews stroked down the 3.5-kilometres from Gorge Narrows to the Steamship Restaurant in the Inner Harbour.
“Our coxswains [Zoe Crookshank for varsity and Helen Ross for junior varsity] managed to keep fabulous lines.” “That’s definitely something the guys will remember a lifetime,” said UVic men’s head coach Aalbert Van Schothorst.The annual dual race is Canadian university rowing’s answer to the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race along the Thames.
UVic won the women’s varsity race Saturday in 12 minutes and 00.76 seconds to UBC’s 12:03.07. UVic leads the Brown Cup women’s all-time series 25-5.The UVic crew consisted of Noa Hardcastle, Gen Olson, Maggie Hemphill, Mikaela Holthuis, Nicole Cusack, Abby Speirs, Danica Ariano, Danae McCulloch and coxswain Crookshank. Stroke of the winning junior varsity Vikes crew was Tess Mackay-PettyJohn.
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