Teams from all over the country will be heading to Queen Mary Sailing Club, Staines, this weekend (17-18 March) to battle it out for the honour of becoming BUSA RYA Match Racing Champion for 2007.
It’s an age old battle of ‘North versus South’ with Qualifier 1 winner Griogair Whyte (Glasgow) and runner-up Charlotte Lawrence (Edinburgh) keen to fight the Southern Teams from Qualifier 2. Leading the Southern teams is Jon Pinner (Cambridge) closely followed by Stephen Powell (Exeter), Robbie Allam (Cardiff) and Nick Cherry (Southampton).
The winner and runner-up from this event will be invited to attend the RYA National Match Racing Finals at Weymouth from 12-14 October.
Teams entered:
|
Ranked |
Skipper |
University |
Crew |
|
1 |
Nick Cherry |
Southampton |
Will Morgan, Oscar Henderson, Andrew Makay |
|
2 |
Robbie Allam |
Cardiff |
Maia Walsh, Olly Burdall, Olly Bennett, Pete Bentley |
|
3 |
Jon Pinner |
Cambridge |
Tom Heywood, Tom Smedley, Rachel Wigmore, Bethan Carden |
|
4 |
Griogair Whyte |
Glasgow |
Tristan McMillan, Craig McDonald, Guy Nicol, Nikki Stewart |
|
5 |
Charlotte Lawrence |
Edinburgh |
Nick Vigors, Ally Ruthen, Lavinia Paternoster, Katie MacKenzie |
|
6 |
Mary Rook |
Exeter 2 |
Andy Brown, Sophie White, Steph Day, Dan Schieber |
|
7 |
Christopher Berry |
St Andrews |
Neil Winter, Anna Pohle, James Whitcomb, Caroline Guenther |
|
8 |
Chris Noble |
Strathclyde |
Calum Reid, Kirsten Henderson, Patrick Cunningham, Alistair Olson |
|
9 |
Matt Greenfield |
Bath |
Mark Stockbridge, Sam Littlejohn, Eddy Atkins, Lauren Martel |
|
10 |
Stephen Powell |
Exeter 1 |
Tom Odell, Jex Fowke, Ben Bainbridge |
A full report and results will be posted by Monday (19 March) on the BUSA website. www.busa.co.uk