Having a completed an M.Sci in Natural Sciences, Colin remained in Cambridge to concentrate on a 1 year MPhil in Management. This is his 4th year trialling at CUBC, having rowed in Goldie in 2004, 2005 and then again in 2007. Current OUBC President Nick Brodie coxed Colin as a junior at the Coup de la Jeunesse in Portugal. Colin remembers being given the afternoon off while at the national junior trials so the rowers could watch the Boat Race on TV.

Tim started rowing at school in 1990 and was asked to join the Western Australian Institute of Sport’s talent identification program in 1992. He represented Australia in sculling over a five year period beginning in 1995, featuring in the World Junior Championships, Nation’s Cup and World Cup. He won the Double Scull at the World Junior Championships in Strathclyde in 1996. His most memorable race is winning the 1999 King’s Cup for Western Australia beating a truly international field. He is a PhD student at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute working on infectious disease genetics. He has been married to his amazing wife, Kura, for three years and has a baby daughter, Tallulah.

An Environmental Design in Architecture student, who gained an Architecture degree from Newcastle University. In his ‘year out’ he worked at FaulknerBrowns architects in Newcastle. Henry started rowing seriously in his final year at school. He won the World University Championships in the Men’s Double Scull in 2006, competed for GB in the Men’s Quad at U23 level 2004. Henry’s academic prizes include the ‘Terrorism and Military in Politics’ prize at school as well as the Social and Environmental sustainablity award at University.

Calling Putney home, Tobias has grown up with the Boat Race on his doorstep. 2007 will be his third year at Cambridge, a year which saw his best rowing achievement to date with a place in Goldie. In 2005, he competed at the Junior World Championships in the men’s Eights. Tobias now hopes to emulate his great, great uncle Kenneth Garnett who rowed in the Blue Boat in 1914.

A relative newcomer to rowing, Peter wanted to get back into competitive sport after suffering numerous rugby related injuries and so took up rowing 2 years ago having spent years living near the Boat Race course. At U23 level, Peter won a Bronze in the Men’s Coxed Four. He is now in the first year of an M.Phil since completing a BA in Economics with European Union Studies at Nottingham University.

In the first year of a Masters degree in History. Began rowing 7 years ago. He has competed at Henley for the last 5 years having made the final twice - in the Henley British FISU 4th A final and the U23 2007 A final. He then won the Britannia Challenge Cup in 2007. In 2006, he rowed at the U23 World Championships in Strathclyde where again he made the final in the Eight and more recently in September 2007, he competed in the European Championships in Poland. Tom also played basketball to County level.

A Medical graduate and former President of CUBC in the 05/06 season, he competed in the Blue Boat in 2005 and 2006. He won the Ladies Plate in 2005 in a CUBC crew just before being elected President for the following season. Away from University rowing, Tom was an Australian Junior and rowed at the World U23’s. 2007/08 is a comeback season for Tom after taking time out in 2007 to concentrate on his Phd in Medical Genetics. His thesis is on the molecular biology of motor neuron degeneration in the spinal cord. Tom’s younger brother and sister have both represented Australia in rowing.

A Physics student having already completed his BA in Physics from Cornell University. Ryan grew up as a football player at heart but at 6ft 2 inches at the age of 16, was encouraged him to take up rowing which he did in the hope it would help him stay fit for football. Ryan enjoyed the sport so much he made the decision to concentrate solely on rowing. He rowed in the Cornell first varsity boat between 2005-2007 and finished 7th in the IRA’s. Ryan comes from a sporty family – his father played for one of the top basketball teams in the NCAA league and his brother played NCAA soccer in New York.

A PhD student who previously graduated from Cambridge with a BA in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. Cambridge is Rebecca’s home town. She attended Chesterton Community College, just a few hundred metres from the Goldie boathouse, before going onto Impington Village College. Became a novice cox at Cambridge and went on to cox the 2004 Cambridge University Lightweight Men’s Boat race crew and the 2006 Cambridge University Women’s Blue Boat. Coxed the winning Blue Boat in 2007. Also coxed the England Women’s Eight to a Gold medal at the Commonwealth Rowing Championships in 2006 and the Great Britain Women’s Eight to a Bronze medal at the 2007 European Rowing Championships.